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You can never really prepare yourself for the time when your beautiful face is shown more prominently than your business partner’s in a world-class print publication. Let me tell you, it’s a huge rush: even larger than the rush one may feel at seeing oneself represented in an ephemeral jumble of 1’s and 0’s — […]

You can never really prepare yourself for the feeling you get when you see your face in New York Times. Well, I can tell you it’s actually quite a rush. Thanks to Marci Alboher for writing the great article. Also, thanks to Thor Swift for the artful photos. Finally, thanks to everyone for all the […]

Here we see the famed Fluthermobile on a quest across Missouri for its favorite snack, the McDonald’s Oatmeal-Raisin Cookie.

Don Quixote would be proud: Near Paw Paw, IL. Where will it show up next?

Today, my parents embark on yet another cross-country road trip to visit me.  For this journey, they have converted their cherry-apple red Dodge Caravan into…The Fluthermobile! We’ll be posting updates in this space with pictures of the van as it travels from Chicago to Los Angeles.  If you happen to pass the Fluthermobile on the […]

Thanks to everyone who participated in the Fluther Greeting Contest. We loved your answers! We selected twenty of our favorite new greetings and added them into the rotation. You should start seeing them whenever you browse Fluther.

In this week’s installment, we show you something simple but important: pagination. If you’ve ever seen those little numbers at the bottom of a Google Search, then you’re familiar with a paginated list: Now we’ll show you how we made a reusable paginator for different parts of Fluther. First we had to decide how it […]

Fluther welcomes you to every page with a happy little greeting.  One of our users brilliantly asked the collective to submit new greetings of their own. The question has generated some great responses, so we decided to turn it into a contest.  Submit your best greeting suggestions as answers to the question and we’ll add […]

A number of you noted that the Activity You’re Following page can get painfully long after you’ve been Fluthering for a while. There are lots of big things keeping us busy these days (just you wait), but sometimes it’s worth taking a deep breath, pressing pause, and making a little improvement to the site. Two […]

I’m very pleased to be introducing a new blog feature: The Fluther Interview. Every couple weeks, we’re going to select a member of the collective and ask them a few questions about themselves so that we can all get to know each other a little better. In the very first installment, we decided to interview […]