Stories by jsomers

The Real Story Behind Google +1

A few quick SEO tips

Lean Products and Second-Order Sales: Startup Software in the Enterprise

Accidental SEO: How I got 400,000 page views without even knowing it

Show HN: A Simple Diff-Based Copyediting Tool

Why do I gloss over Uppercase Things when I read? Exploring case and retention

Those maps at the beginning of books: a short essay on education

The Shoulders of Giants: Why learning to fly (or code) is easier than you think

The Simple Software That Could--But Probably Won't--Change the Face of Writing

The Hofstadterian mood, or, how creativity works

Social Annealing

Generating Thoughts, or, the Feynman Family Phrase

Exploring the complexity of driving directions using the Google Maps API

Beware short forms: the dangers of a low word count

The trouble with "The Big Bang Theory"

The "1,000 Most Important Words" (or more modestly, just a very good word list)

Boston-area hackers looking for work?

Bibliography from Godel, Escher, Bach, annotated by Douglas Hofstadter

A Stochastic Model for Picking Winners in the NCAA Tournament

“It turns out”

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