Ben Werdmuller helps leaders at newsrooms, non-profits, and mission-driven organizations to navigate their biggest technology challenges.
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
@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."
On one side, coders fighting for the user, hands bloodied and dirty. On the other, wealth, but under the yoke of control. What a choice.
The masters of App City carefully snip and prune the culture. Subversive elements are removed as if they never existed. Who would see?
In the distance, App City, with its gleaming towers and shiny-toothed people. The citizens are happy there. But do they remember freedom ..?
One man surviving the apocalypse in his radiation-proof exoskeleton, simply yelling "RSS! RSS! RSS!" over and over again.
Scene: 100 years into the future. An apocalyptic wasteland. Shouts on the radioactive wind: "... JSON-LD ...!" "... Microformats ...!"
@ckdotbiz ... Have you considered computer programming?
@sarahdessen On the plus side, you're exponentially less likely to be served kale with your breakfast in North Carolina.