Squished bear.
Bruno, my beloved teddy bear, was imported back to the States from our old attic sans stuffing. Once upon a time he was taller than me.
Ben Werdmuller
Ben Werdmuller helps leaders at newsrooms, non-profits, and mission-driven organizations to navigate their biggest technology challenges.
Homogeneity is for wimps. Let's all be ourselves.
"The thing about alternative people," a coworker once said to me, many jobs ago, "is that they act like the mainstream isn't good enough for them. It's like they're saying they're better than us." He was talking about
Why I'm excited about Known Pro (and what's next for us)
We launched Known Pro today. It's the best way to reach your audience, wherever they are on the web, from a single platform. It's also the culmination of a lot of work over the last few months. We made an important decision, back in November: we
Some unpopular opinions about the Bay Area tech industry
Large tech companies like Google and Facebook should be aware of the effect they're having on their cities and neighboring communities and invest in social infrastructure to protect against poverty and create healthier cities. A single-payer healthcare system would not only be more efficient, but would support startups
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We need to have fake flowers because ma is immunosuppressed, but I think we do okay.
I have the best job in the world.
I'm incredibly proud of what we've accomplished at Known so far. We're one of the few social web apps where you can use our cloud service or host it yourself - or move at any time, in either direction. We have an active and
Homebrew Website Club: March 11, 2015
Are you building your own website? Indie reader? Personal publishing web app? Or some other digital magic-cloud proxy? If so, come on by and join a gathering of people with like-minded interests. Bring your friends that want to start a personal web site. Exchange information, swap ideas, talk shop, help
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Out for a walk.
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6 honest reflections on being an early-stage startup founder
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
W3C announces 1 in 20 sentences on the web will be advertising
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’
For artists, if the Internet is not the answer, what is?
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
To do better work, and lead better lives, we should all disconnect more.
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