./emilychang design + tech

I've been a supporter of the open source movement since I first got on the web in the early 90s. Almost everything I've learned about the web and programming, I learned from downloading open source software and giving it a try, then hacking it to customize it to my own needs. Read more...

I always get excited when it's an election year, but particularly this one because it's been eight long years. Two web projects related to the U.S. election caught my attention today. Read more...

I'm pleased to let you know that Max Kiesler and my proposed SXSW panel, Social Design Strategies, has been selected for SXSW 2008. Thanks to everyone who voted using the panel picker. Read more...

A few weeks ago, I added a link to my APML (Attention Profiling Markup Language) on the side of my about page thanks to Chris Saad, Co-founder and CEO of Faraday Media, the creators of Particls and co-author of APML. I'm using their product, Engagd, to create my APML file. While I'm still importing RSS feeds from my web attention and activities into my data stream, the APML file gives users a format to view my attention data. Read more...

After spending the last two years as eHub, obsessively profiling and trying out almost every web application that's come out, I've decided to try something different from a new perspective. I just launched PicoCool, a site that's dedicated to bringing you tiny and obscure content from the world of peer media, social networks and subcultures. Read more...

Reactee has mashed-up it's services with Twitter to create a great hybrid of two services that I already like independently. Reactee has created an easy way to make your own t-shirts customized with your Twitter username. Read more...

Ever since I started using Twitter, Tumblr, and Stikkit, it seems I haven't been able to finish a blog post. Instead, I'm just Twittering, collecting, reading, posting: generally zipping through the electronic universe leaving a varied trail of my activities and thoughts. Read more...