Ben Werdmuller

Author: Ben Werdmuller

  • Bookstores and serendipity

    Here’s one of my favorite places on Earth: It’s called the Norrington Room. It sits in the basement of Blackwell’s, the oldest bookshop in Oxford (where I grew up), and when it was opened in 1966 it was the largest room full of books for sale in the world. I love bookshops, but I rarely […]

  • Confessions of an entrepreneur’s wife

    This article is long, but worth reading to the end: He came home and lay on the couch for a week, confused and a little lost. With the long overdue luxury of time and hindsight (and bed rest dictated by a bad case of bronchitis), he analyzed the past year’s activity. He believed that the […]

  • Some things to consider if you’re deciding whether to be a tech entrepreneur

    I was taken by Status.net founder Evan Promodou’s post the other day: Hackers make things; entrepreneurs make things that make things. This is a pretty succinct explanation of the difference between an entrepreneur and a hacker, and, I must confess, not one I fully understood when we originally set out to build Elgg. (It was […]

  • Going Mac

    Last week, I said goodbye to decades of tradition and became a Mac user. It’s a more emotional decision than you might think. It’s just a tool, right? You should pick the product that is going to do the job for you best. But in tech circles there’s something emotive and tribal about it; mention […]