Ben Werdmuller helps leaders at newsrooms, non-profits, and mission-driven organizations to navigate their biggest technology challenges.
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
Today: it's time for a walk around the lake.
As of this evening.
Now replaced.
One of the first conversations I had when I moved to California was with Kaliya, about alternative models of ownership for startups. I know it's something that's come up at events like Future of Money, and it's interesting to see it emerge in USV&
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Known moved out of our office on Friday. For now, we're a remote team. This is my vantage point at my desk, with three monitor screens, a broadcast-quality mic and all the tea I can drink. #ben #homeoffice
Aaron Chimbel, over on PBS MediaShift: At most universities, students are required to take English composition courses, and at many others speech and/or foreign language classes are also required. Yet in the debate about teaching code in journalism programs, code is often reduced to a shiny toy. I'
The musician Zoë Keating (who I admire) has written a very transparent, and a little sad, post about the decision she needs to make about YouTube: They were nice and took time to explain everything clearly to me, but the message was firm: I have to decide. I need to
In the weeds on something that needs to be finished, so regretfully I need to stay in the office.
Photo by Tantek; reposting because Instagram's embed codes make life difficult and require a bunch of JavaScript.
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This is a summarized version of my talk at Hacks and Hackers tonight at Matter in San Francisco. This last summer, Alberto Guzman, a hairdresser in New York, uploaded a picture of him and his husband sharing a kiss on their wedding day. He tagged it with the hashtag #happy,
Eating lunch outside like a boss.