@holden I wasn't - there are a ...
@holden I wasn't - there are a few of these. See https://tent.io/, also. I like the mission, but not the protocol-first approach.
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Ben Werdmuller helps leaders at newsrooms, non-profits, and mission-driven organizations to navigate their biggest technology challenges.
@rushaw Sorry you had an issue! @timmmmyboy, ...
@rushaw Sorry you had an issue! @timmmmyboy, checking in here - did you say we have an old file in our package?
I'm a startup founder. Here's why I support Bernie Sanders.
It's fair to say that American politics is having a meltdown. The poster child is Donald Trump, the heir to a multi-million dollar empire who would have made more money if he'd spent his life finger-painting, but nonetheless portrays himself as a shrewd deal-maker. In one
How we built Known
We've got some exciting new things in store for 2016 that solve real problems for both higher and corporate education. We'll discuss this in a future post on the Known blog. First, though, I wanted to take a step back and explain the technical decisions we
San Francisco, enough is enough. It's time to look further afield.
This afternoon, Greg Wester tweeted this screen grab: Your eyes are not deceiving you. That's a 420 square foot studio apartment - not even a one bedroom - for $3,050 a month. That's a base cost: your bills, and most likely parking, are extra. There
My 2016 year in review
Rather than taking a retrospective look back at 2015, I think it's interesting to look ahead think about what I want my themes for the next year to be, both personally and professional. Here's mine; I'd love to see yours. Be more social. I
How to shorten a tweet
It can be hard to keep status messages to 140 characters or less (or a 116 character message if you've included a link). I realized recently that I follow the same algorithm to bring it down to size every time, so I thought I'd write down
The complicated, liberating metadata of my future children
My future children, should I have any, will come from a tapestry of places. From my side of their lineage alone, they will come from three continents. They will have multiple passports. They'll share my sense of both coming from a specific place but also no place at
Why we built Known
Known has become the easiest way to create an online community to support your class or group. We've built an easy-to-use platform that lets people publish in a group with a variety of media, from blog posts and photographs to files and points on a map. Each post
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Why WordPress's new Calypso interface is genius
Matt Mullenweg just introduced a new management interface for WordPress: Today we’re announcing something brand new, a new approach to WordPress, and open sourcing the code behind it. The project, codenamed Calypso, is the culmination of more than 20 months of work by dozens of the most talented engineers
Let in the refugees. How we respond to them is a reflection of who we are.
George Packer in the New Yorker this week: A lot of people in this country are disgracing themselves this week. They include politicians of both parties—though many more Republicans than Democrats—and all regions. Their motives vary: deep-seated bigotry, unreasoning fear, spinelessness, opportunism, or some unholy mix of them