So apparently kickstarter is not the right way to fund scaling up your social network.

Their guidelines prohibit campaigns "to fund websites or apps focused on e-commerce, business, and social networking."

Interesting. But there are lots of ways to go about scaling the site, and the work before us right now doesn't require more money. It requires solving the riddle of building interest and bringing intact networks of friends aboard.

I stumbled across this discovery while hoping to answer an unrelated question: how to fund adding certain features to the Apostrophe open source CMS. That, my employer could do on kickstarter, but it sounds out of their usual line.

Today I changed logins so that your login should "stick" for a long time, rather than just the current browser session. And I added a little nudge to invite a friend if you haven't done so yet (or more accurately, not since today, since I just started keeping track).

Also, Sean Puckett shared a post about his work toward improving the look and feel of the site. Can't wait!

OK, that was really over the top.

I participated in a flash mob tonight.

Some band called World Town Sound System played Rittenhouse Square, and they put out a call for salsa dancers to show up.

I could see several problems as soon as I got there:

1. The song wasn't salsa, exactly

2. They'd restricted access to the front of the stage, where they wanted us to be

3. They had no idea how many of us there would be

But hey, what the hell. It worked out. I came across a salsera of my acquaintance who hadn't shown up with a partner and we managed to dance without harming ourselves or others in the tight space available.

The band ain't bad. Their songs kinda sound similar to one another for the most part, but the energy's great.

In One Post Wonder news: I've been offered help with the visual design of One Post Wonder, and Progress is being Made. Thanks to Sean Puckett for jumping in.

So I've eased up on my own changes to the look and feel to see what happens there. I'll be concentrating on the functionality in the meanwhile.

Took another kizomba class last night. The instructor said straight up that "Angolans don't dance kizomba like this, traditional kizomba has a little more distance, but 'kizomba feeling' is very close."

That fits with what I see when I watch kizomba videos on the interwebs. The people who invented the dance don't feel the need to be quite so far in each other's space. Interesting.

On the One Post Wonder front, here's what's new in the last couple of days:

• Counter for new posts, also for new comments and followers
• Page title also includes a count of notices and new posts waiting
• Added clearly labeled "Edit Profile Picture" button to "Me" page
• Started "signing" emails to keep them out of spam folders– maybe

Also, I've received a welcome offer of help with the visual design side of things, which is awesome, and we'll see where that leads.

In the near future I plan to add a nightly email digest, sent only if you haven't been on the site. This will be something you can shut off, of course.

A challenge for you: follow two new people today, and comment on two posts.

I just ordered a novel on Amazon. I ordered it because I heard about it on One Post Wonder. As one does.

The Philly Geek Awards have been running for four years now. This is the third time I've attended.

The Awards were co-founded by Tim Quirino, a former coworker of mine at P'unk Avenue. He's since gamboled off to design things at Facebook.

I have to say, they do an outstanding job seeking out nominees from outside the average white male Philly programmer's bubble.

Every year I come home with a program full of stuff I need to check out immediately:

Jason Richardson and the Black Tribbles, origaminc's These French Fries Are Terrible Hot Dogs, Jason Osder's MOVE documentary Let the Fire Burn, and Kid Kazo's Philly street art are all high on my list.

Of course I've been enjoying Kazo's work for years without knowing whose it was. One of the perks of living in the city.

Kyle Cassidy, with whom many of you are familiar, was nominated in the photography category this year after serving memorably as a presenter. He was nominated for his famous photographs of librarians. Which are the centerpiece of a touring exhibition narrated by Neil Gaiman. And he didn't win. Whaaaaat!

Well... since P'unk Avenue is twice nominated and never a bride in the website category, I can relate.

And did I mention the Geek Awards are held at the Academy of Natural Sciences? Where they roll out the red carpet and let you hang with the tortoise? On said carpet?

Without question, one of the sweetest things that happens in Philly any given year. If you live in town, make a point of snagging tickets next time.

I've been dancing salsa since 2006. For as long as I've been dancing, salsa and its cultural siblings bachata and merengue have been the steps in the clubs. Swing is cool, but you can't go out to a club and just find people doing it; I missed that particular revival.

For the first time in my personal experience– and keep in mind I'm only eight years old as a dancer– a new step is pushing onto the floor. And it's not a latin step. It's from Angola.

I first saw kizomba here in the states a couple years back. And I thought, "this is not gonna catch on until we 'fix' it for us Americans. Because it's too close and too sensual, and that kind of thing weirds us out unless we know exactly what the rules are. And it's also really creative and places a super-high premium on the guy's ability to lead effectively with his body. Maybe once they water it down and make it safe it'll catch on."

Now kizomba is catching on. Last night I took a couple hours of beginner kizomba class and tried out easy steps with a roomful of friends from the salsa community. Good times, and everybody was a lot cooler with the intimacy of the dance than I had unfairly expected. The popularity of bachata, a similarly close latin style, probably helps.

But the real surprise is what I found when I started searching youtube for "kizomba angola." And even more so when I searched for "kizomba luanda." (Luanda is the capital of Angola.)

It turns out a lot of the kizomba songs people dance to in Angola are... peppy and cheerful. And not everybody dances "all up ins" with their partner, either. I'm watching leads who can steer very effectively and sensually with just a forearm. And punctuate the dance with closer contact, not maintain it all the time.

All that "you have to be chest to chest or you're doing it wrong" stuff? That's coming from us!

Serves me right. I gotta remember to check my assumptions at the door of the club.

There is a bike trail on both sides of the Schuylkill river. You can pedal from Spruce Street in Center City all the way to Falls Bridge, cross the bridge, and return on the West Philly side, terrorizing joggers and geese all the way. At no point are you terrorized by cars. It's a seven-mile trip.

And that's nothin'. You can keep going. The ride through Manayunk is a pain, but then there's the towpath trail. And a mile of gravel, after which you come to 20 miles of gorgeous paved trail to Norristown.

And on to Valley Forge.

And on to Reading. I haven't tried that bit.

Tonight I just needed to get my ya-ya's out. I've been in the house too much this week. So I did that seven-mile loop. And I did my best to notice how lovely it is.

I'd be all agog if I discovered it while visiting a city I don't live in. Human nature is funny that way.

I wasn't entirely successful in seeing it with new eyes, but I did remember to count the cormorants hanging out on the wire just behind the dam. (There were seven.)

"Yes, yes, but what's new on One Post Wonder today?"

The coolest thing is probably this post by Anne Galvin. (OK, that was yesterday.)

Oh, you meant new features? Got those too:

• When you click someone's name, and are taken to their personal blog, you'll always see a "plus" button you can click to follow them. Even if they haven't posted yet.
• When you visit the personal blog of a mutual friend, you'll see a new "Jane Doe's Friends" button. Click that to see a list of people that Jane is following. You can visit their blogs, or just follow them on the spot.

For you alpha testers, I'm probably the most profitable person to click on right now. For a lot of people this page won't have too many names on it... yet.

I do see that some of you are inviting a person or two. Feel free, and if you run out of invites, just give me a nudge.

Next up, I think, will be an easier way to discover new comments on your posts, and posts that you've commented on.

I'm seeing folks begin to invite friends and post interesting things. Yes! IT LIVES!

Today I spoke with a client at work. She's been with us for five years. In some businesses that's no big deal. In our industry, it's a sign of an unusually healthy relationship.

We built a website for her organization in 2009 and we've performed occasional updates ever since, slowly adapting it to be the site they really needed. Which is not quite the same thing as the site they initially wanted. Or the site we initially thought they needed. Or the site they needed last year.

This morning she called to invite us to propose a new design process and a rebuild of the site.

Given how complex their business logic is, it's entirely possible we'll wind up pursuing a "refresh" rather than a rebuild, to leverage the solid work we've already done. But it's gratifying to see customers coming back steadily, as they do in industries where reputation is everything. Because sooner or later, it always is.

In other news: One Post Wonder welcomed its first alpha testers last night. Thank you so much for the feedback. I'm looking forward to reading your posts. As opposed to your every-millisecond lunch status updates.

I tackled several One Post Wonder bugs tonight:

• Make visible whether a post is public or not so commenters know
• 24 hour rule simplified: you can post again at midnight (i.e. tomorrow)
• Lovely connecting lines to show comment threads. Seriously, these puppies are laser-guided
• Cleaned up the "add photo" feature in posts
• Ability to delete posts! Yeah that is kind of a biggie.

Looking forward to more feedback, and most of all, reading more wondrous, personal posts that have nothing to do with the plumbing of One Post Wonder. I'm striving to put that first in my own posts as well.

I shall leave you with an abundance of ducks.

This morning a friend announced her box spring wasn't gonna make it up the stairs. She was given two options: cut it in half or buy a split box spring.

I smiled because I've been there. Cutting a box spring in half sounds like a pain in the ass and a dodgy move; you can buy a split box spring from 1-800-MATTRESS and they work fine. Or get an IKEA bed with wooden slats; they don't require a box spring. That's just rowhouse life.

That reminded me of my longstanding wish for a regularly updated catalog of Stuff Rowhouse Owners Need. My dream catalog would include:

Flat-pack couches you can assemble in your "almost full height" finished basement

Split box springs

Split mattress "bridges"

Smaller ovens, stoves, sinks and fridges that are of high quality

Collapsible shopping carts

Walking shoes (because you're going to)

There is, or was, a Rowhouse Magazine, which eventually became a Wordpress. It was a worthy effort, but I'd like to see resources for ordinary rowhouse owners, rather than the occasional person who lives on Elfreth's Alley and needs to know about Restoration Hardware and $30,000 high-pressure air conditioning that won't violate their historic home status.

And... it's 2014. I could do this. Who's stopping me from doing this?

Me, dammit! At least until One Post Wonder is launched!