Gordon's Tech

The mastodon social network (I'm https://appdot.net/@jgordon) lets me follow people at any Mastodon community (instance). Mastodon is pe...

I went through all of Trello’s (weak) online documentation trying to figure out how to manage my (free) Trello teams. Where in the UI is the...

Our school mountain biking team has been doing group texting for coaches. Works well on rides — especially when coordinating riders of diffe...

[This post was first written in 2013 and then revised in April 2016.] When Emily said she was interested in Trello , on a day when I was at...

[This one's for @duerig .] The earliest mention of "channels" in my web archives dates to 1996 [1]. There's not much mor...

On the Day of the Dapocalypse Google ended Google Reader Share , though  my old shares are still accessible  almost a year later. Google le...

After a disastrous SharePoint 2007 to 2010 migration [1] it was clearly time to replace my team's use of SharePoint wiki. The mangled c...

I haven't found a replacement for the rough annotation-share-feed ecosystem that had grown up around Google Reader Social (RIP). I'...

Google amputated a portion of my distributed memory , but they left me a frozen json remnant. (Yes, we are living in a cyberpunk novel. Si...

I liked many things about Posterous . Alas, it doesn't seem to have a revenue stream. Recently, in a desperation move, they tried to bec...

A colleague pointed me to XWIKI . I really want to know how I missed this, version 1 was 2008 but it has roots back to 2003. I've been l...