Window display
We need to have fake flowers because ma is immunosuppressed, but I think we do okay.
Ben Werdmuller
Ben Werdmuller helps leaders at newsrooms, non-profits, and mission-driven organizations to navigate their biggest technology challenges.
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 growing
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
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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
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
Social networks are bad at news. Can we make something better?
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
Two years ago, we were about to get a call from the transplant center.
Today: it's time for a walk around the lake.
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