I previously co-founded Elgg and served as CTO at latakoo, but Known is the first time I've been a CEO. Candid reflections have always been important to me to learn from; maybe someone will find these useful, too. If not, then, well, my first point applies:
Writing is an important way to organize ...
February 22, 2015
This week, Twitter CEO Dick Costolo told the New York Times how he plans to continue to monetize his service:
Twitter’s core business of selling ads that are inserted into the flow of tweets that every user sees has plenty of room to grow, he said. The social network’s ideal model ...
February 13, 2015
Andrew Keen's new book The Internet is not the Answer takes a contrarian view to the digital revolution:
Instead, it has handed extraordinary power and wealth to a tiny handful of people, while simultaneously, for the rest of us, compounding and often aggravating existing inequalities – cultural, social and economic – ...
February 10, 2015
I enjoyed this episode of the New Tech City podcast about the case for boredom:
It's a part of their Bored and Brilliant project, which attempts to encourage us to spend more time stewing in our own mental juices. The argument is that we spend too much of our time using our ...
February 7, 2015
Andrew Sullivan, the veteran political blogger, is quitting. As Ezra Klein at Vox noted:
The blogosphere lives. But Sullivan's decision to hang up his keyboard is nevertheless a marker. Sullivan was the closest we had to someone trying to run a blog with real scale. He was trying to make his ...
February 1, 2015