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From the home office

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

No, journalists shouldn't need to learn to code. They need better tools.

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'

Artists should control their work. That means we need better networks.

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

No: In the weeds on something that needs to be finished, so regretfully I need to stay in the office.

In the weeds on something that needs to be finished, so regretfully I need to stay in the office.

Speaking at Hacks and Hackers on January 15, 2014

Photo by Tantek; reposting because Instagram's embed codes make life difficult and require a bunch of JavaScript.

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Censorship and Silos

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,

Just another January day in California.

Eating lunch outside like a boss.

All my first profile photos. Ageing is a terrible thing.

There's a meme going around where people post their first profile photos on Facebook. It turns out you can plot a huge chunk of my life through profiles I've had on the Internet. Also: I'm old now.

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Sigh.

#sanfrancisco

Homebrew Website Club: January 14, 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

Yes: Looking forward to it!

Looking forward to it!

Being a human on the Internet (and discovering my non-throttleable self)

I just spent a couple of weeks back in the UK, partially to talk to universities and organizations about using Known, but mostly to reconnect with old, dearly-missed friends who I haven't seen in a few years. The two and a half years since I'd last