June 2011
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An Open Letter to Jay Maisel Who Just Deleted his...
This was originally written for Jay Maisel’s facebook page. It was one of many responses on the page but while I was writing, the page was deleted and all the other responses are now gone.
Dear Jay Maisel,
I read a pretty disheartening post this morning about what seemed like a copyright troll who sued another artist for modifying his work. I googled and found out that it was you...
May 2011
2 posts
5 Suggestions for Nieman Lab's Encyclopedia...
Posted originally at Nerd Collider.
This morning Nieman Lab announced a new encyclopedia project. I’ve heard a lot of people talk over the past few years about building a “CrunchBase for News” and this is certainly the farthest I’ve seen anyone come. Saying that though, if Nieman is serious about pulling this off there are some big crimson flags.
5 Immediate Suggestions...
How should a "Future of News" encyclopedia be... →
New from Nerd Collider.
April 2011
4 posts
“They know everything that everybody else already knows and they’re probably...”
– - Joi Ito via Wired
Joi is the new director of MIT Media Lab. I thought this was an elegant way to describe the Strength of Weak Ties.
“Journalism is already a field so stuffed with awards it is sometimes hard to...”
– - emily bell via Nerd Collider
Director of Tow Centre for Digital Journalism at Columbia
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The Story of NYU Local's First Day
This saturday I experienced ‘Young Media Weekend’ and I’m still processing how surreal the event felt. For those that haven’t heard about it, Young Media Weekend (#YMW) is a panel/party organized by NYU Local designed to bring aspiring media kids from around the east coast to NYC for a few days to talk to each other and network with people who could hire them. The panel...
March 2011
2 posts
Announcing Nerd Collider →
nerdcollider:
In preparation for his book Where Do Good Ideas Come From, Steven Johnson spent five years studying the environments that lead to unusual rates of innovation. He ended up detailing seven attributes in his book, but if there was a prevailing theme through his research, it was that good ideas don’t…
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'Color' is Primal and Kind of Brilliant
I really wanted to hate Color. I really did. A pre-launch startup raising 41 million dollars for a consumer web iPhone picture app (not a satellite manufacturer) makes me want to vomit. But after a night of using Color—I’m intrigued. In the context of them raising 41 million dollars, Color is one of the most ingenious and ambitious iPhone apps I’ve seen in a long time. There’s a...
September 2010
1 post
I'm Starting a Half Way House for NYC Startups
A week ago, I signed a lease for an apartment in Bushwick that was formally a half way house—a place where people who used to be addicted to heroin go to ‘sober up’. After months of commuting to work together, Kate Ray and I are moving in together to work on kommons.com. We are thrilled to finally have a space to live and work but we’d also like to help others who are in similar...