@timklapdor @gsiemens @amdulin @BBurnsEDU @pmfreedm @mpstaton @kreshleman While developers need to eat. So alt funding structure = vital.
@gsiemens @amdulin @BBurnsEDU @pmfreedm @mpstaton @kreshleman I'd argue that the flow of those dollars is a problem. 18mo sales cycle.
Universities are becoming billion dollar hedge funds. (They should use some of that money to fund #edtech.) http://www.thenation.com/article/universities-are-becoming-billion-dollar-hedge-funds-with-schools-a...
The Known community plugin list is growing beautifully: http://docs.withknown.com/en/latest/plugins/community/
Stop writing specs, start finding needs. Why design sprints are important: https://medium.com/building-an-open-startup/stop-writing-specs-start-finding-needs-5aeda711d4f3#.stv...
In light of @GVteam's awesome book Sprint (worth checking out), here's @erinjo's method for design sprint success: https://medium.com/@erinjo/the-product-sprint-prospective-review-3fce7da5467c#.m1osge2sf
Incredible and sobering: a true life narrative constructed solely from search engine queries. https://rhizome.org/editorial/2016/mar/07/do-you-believe-in-user-711391/
Microsoft's joined the Eclipse Foundation. It's not about software anymore, it's about infrastructure. https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/visualstudio/2016/03/08/microsoft-joins-the-eclipse-foundation/
Reached the point where Spotify Discover Weekly is recommending Captain Beefheart, The Clash, Le Tigre and UNKLE. It really knows me!
An end to gun violence is a cause worth fighting for. https://medium.com/@ChadWilliamson/are-you-a-fighter-705c5cdd50d5 #sxswedu
Uh, you guys, the bus just took fifteen minutes to get from downtown SF to Berkeley. The game has been changed. I had no idea.
Taking the Transbay bus home for the first time ever. This is so much better than BART or Muni. Good job, @rideact!
I fully support this manifesto. 👍 https://medium.com/better-humans/a-meetings-manifesto-5a8caf6281b
Ingredients for delicious food waiting for me at home. Minor problem: massive delays and overcrowding on BART between me and it. Good-o.
@timmmmyboy This was a first - @erinjo's initiative. It seems really good so far!
http://confetti.cool is an experiment in botcasting: publisher broadcasting via bots. We think it's neat. You should add it to Slack.
Douglas Rushkoff on how corporate growth above all else is killing the economy: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/heres-how-corporate-growth-killing-economy-douglas-rushkoff
@JacobTref Just loaded Twitter to see your face staring at me and literally jumped
Trying @getprpl. It's super-interesting, but I'd love to know how they can afford to send so many SMS messages. 20+ so far.
@ewout I strongly agree. Trick is to create a world where projects are self-sustaining / growing, but available where they're most useful.
@ewout Right. Definitely! But I think it's unfair to ask people to build software to create a public good without compensation, for example.
Botcasting 🤖
is the future 🚀
of news 📰
probably ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
http://confetti.cool/
#news #bots #slack
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