Category: General
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Day two at TechCrunch Disrupt
With all of the inside baseball politics surrounding TechCrunch lately, what I hadn’t had time to consider was that Disrupt would turn out to be the most high energy, intensively productive conference I’ve attended for a really long time. It certainly helps that I’m here representing a product that wows people in thirty seconds flat […]
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September 11th, 2011
The events that occurred ten years ago were undeniably horrific, scary and tragic. They were also an opportunity to show how strong democratic values are; to show how powerful reason is when armed with information; to unite behind our belief in freedom of speech and freedom of knowledge. I was working at Daily Information, writing […]
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Spire Magazine: a teenage (mis)adventure
I wrote a piece over on Google+ about Spire Magazine, my first real Internet project: I became the editor and publisher, roping in our friends with the promise that they could get free games if they reviewed them. We considered static text files or the web, but decided that neither had the possibilities for layout […]
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Learn to program the Codecademy away
I’m really taken with Codecademy, a series of free tutorials on learning to code. It’s incredibly simple, and you can take the first exercise without signing in. I know quite a few people whose portfolio of skills could be enhanced with a little bit of coding; this is a great start for them. I’m not […]