My Sites

HDR photo of my desk

I got my first Internet email address in 1993. I published my first website in 1997. Since then, I have had a nearly continuous presence on the Internet, so this page serves to not only tell you of my activities, but also to remind me of where I put things.

Sites I Operate

  • On Garner Road is a human interest podcast where I introduce listeners to someone who lives on the Internet. It started out as an experiment but now regularly gets more than 100 listeners per episode.
  • the Daily Funnies is where I post public-domain, PG-13 humor that people send me. It started out life as a mailing list, then migrated to the web, and still gets updated occasionally.
  • I started The Contax G Pages in 1998 as a way to share photographs with other owners of the Contax G1 and G2 autofocus rangefinder cameras. The site has been rebuilt several times, and its code was the core of the Siteframe website toolkit application. Since G1 and G2 owners often have other cameras, there’s a sister site, The Non-Contax G Pages, where people can share those photographs. Note that this site has many of the features considered “Web 2.0″—it’s entirely built around user-generated content, with user-uploaded and automatically resized pictures (something that was extremely rare at the time), comments, ratings, email feedback, and a host of other features to encourage participation. And I built it half a decade before the term “Web 2.0″ was invented.
  • I have a number of sites built on Posterous‘s excellent platform. Twiddle Me is what is euphemistically called a “dump site”—it’s basically a container for anything and everything I run across, and many of my mobile photos end of there. It acts as a hub, automatically forwarding my pictures to Flickr, FriendFeed, Facebook, and Twitter. the Daily Photo is an experimental, collaborative site where the members try to post a picture per day. It has not been terribly successful so far. Finally, No Pretending is a site where I publish poetry. Yes, poetry; I was an English major in college and I still write from time to time.
  • I am the Director of Media Operations for Dan Sahagun for Congress. Dan is a good friend of mine in San José, and he asked me to help build his website for his congressional campaign.
  • My Pencil is a hosted WordPress site. Most of my other sites are actually hosted sites on My Pencil. It is now restricted, but I’m open to letting outsiders host their blogs here if they understand the risks and assumptions.

There are other sites that I am developing but not really ready to release to the public yet, but I will add them here if they go that far.

Sites I’ve built

  • Yahoo! News is the most-traffic’d news site on the Internet; I was involved as an engineer in its redesign (and movement to PHP) in 2005, as an engineering manager during another redesign in 2008, and currently involved in developing new technology that will be used on the site in the future.
  • Yahoo! Shine is one of the dominant women’s sites on the web. I was involved as the engineering manager and primary architect during its initial construction and deployment.
  • I was the engineering lead during the development of Yahoo! Tech, a technology information and review site. Though the site has since been shut down by Yahoo!, it was a groundbreaking effort in many respects—it was the first new site built by the Yahoo! Media group in over five years. It was the first consumer-facing site at Yahoo! to be constructed using a service-oriented architecture. And it was the first Yahoo! property to rely upon bloggers as a primary source.