Ben Werdmuller helps leaders at newsrooms, non-profits, and mission-driven organizations to navigate their biggest technology challenges.
Prologue: The first time I ever visited South Park, the tiny patch of grass in downtown San Francisco that the Matter garage would later back onto, Biz Stone bought me a coffee. We circled the park and talked about Elgg, our open source social networking product, and Twitter, the startup
Working title: ten questions A fully anonymous site where you answer 10 questions that attempt to pinpoint your beliefs on social and economic issues. These aren't essay questions, exactly, but neither are they multiple choice: the idea is to get you to explain your point of view without
Our devices are working against us. Recently, we learned that Volkswagen was falsifying its mandatory E.P.A. emissions tests. Because each test has a set of characteristics that don’t accurately match real-world driving conditions, the internal software running in 11 million cars could deduce that an official test
@t I was making fun :) I really do see a bright future. But definitely looking forward to hanging out and seeing the movie.
@riprowan I'd say it sits alongside a WordPress. I've heard it described as a "sideblog". Notes and ideas as well as finished pieces.
@riprowan The big deal is deeper connections with the networks you already use. eg, everything I share on Twitter is syndicated from my site
@StartupLJackson I think he knows exactly what year it is, and Dell's own enterprise cloud offerings are falling flat. Ofc, this will too.
Two things that I think are different about doing startups out here and in Cambridge: 1. Flip-flops are totally cool, 2. and failure is embraced as a part of life. A startup is a serious endeavor and you need to give it more than your all. But ultimately, if you
@harryhalpin Does that mean I can count you down for an interview? :)
@riprowan That's one. Also: discovery (search and proactive notifications on things like trends), verbs / actions, federation content types.
Satire.
Back in the present: "I don't know where I'm going with this," one man types grimly into his iPhone. "And I'm late for a baby shower."