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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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Community-owned startups: taking a cue from the Co-op

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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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'