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Best Of Tech and the Fake Market tactic In one generation, the Internet went from opening up new free markets to creating a series of Fake Markets that exploit society, without most media or politicians even noticing. 1.
Most Popular It's time to discover Prince With the recent availability of nearly all of Prince’s catalog on the most popular streaming services, it’s a great time to (re?)discover the breadth of Prince’s
Best Of On Being and Tech's Moral Reckoning Back in November, I got to sit down with the amazing Krista Tippett for a lengthy interview in front of an incredibly warm crowd in Easton, MD. Now, that interview
Best Of Forget "Why?", it's time to get to work. There are going to be endless think-pieces and armchair analyses about why America elected Donald Trump as its next President. But you already know why. Don’t waste a single
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Best Of Nobody Famous What it’s like to have the social network of a celebrity, without actually being famous I’ve got more Twitter followers than you. I’ve got more Twitter followers than Ted Cruz, and I’m only a little bit behind Björk. If my
Most Popular Peak Dad Twitter Hot on the heels of Vanity Fair referencing my dad-ness on Twitter comes this Daily Dot piece examining Dad Twitter. I loved this part: If that sounds too cheesy, it’s on purpose. Displaying sincerity can feel like a radical act. To say you
Best Of 15 Lessons from 15 Years of Blogging This summer marked 15 years since I first started blogging here, and I’m happier than ever that I’ve chosen to live so much of my life in this place, with all of you. Nearly everything has changed for me since I began
Best Of I Know Times Are Changing 0:00 — 0:10In the summer of 1983, Wendy Melvoin was just 19 years old. She’d flown halfway across the country from Los Angeles for her first professional gig
Most Popular One Simple Trick Worked to Improve Headlines, and You Won't Believe What Happened Next Upworthy is barely over two years old, and it’s among the top 50 most visited sites in the United States. But its perception among the self-involved media discussion class is entirely defined by its headlines. Those headlines typically reference a provocative issue, tease
Most Popular What I Learned From Twitter's Leaders [This piece was originally written for CNN on the occasion of Twitter’s IPO.] The Internet is buzzing with news of Twitter’s initial public offering on Thursday, inspiring enough enthusiasm from investors to push the company to a $23 billion valuation in its
Best Of Bringing Water to A Town Like Ours I’ve had the good fortune to get to speak in public hundreds of times, about any manner of subjects. But I’ve never, never had the moments following one of my talks bring me to tears. Until yesterday. I was asked to go
Best Of A Brief History of Apple's iWatch A brief timeline of Apple iWatch’s entrance to the market. September 10, 2013: As key members of the tech industry and trade press gather on a clear Tuesday morning, Tim Cook leads much of Apple’s senior management in the introduction of a
Most Popular Shushers: Wrong about movies. Wrong about the world. There’s been a delightful debate the last few days about how to accommodate the increasing number of people who want the experience of watching movies in public theaters to
Best Of 10 Rules of Internet In my years working in technology, I have learned a few things. These lessons have become oft-repeated refrains when speaking to people, so I thought I’d collect them so
Best Of How We Lost the Web When I wrote about the web we lost a few months ago, I thought the idea that we’d strayed from some of the philosophical and cultural underpinnings of the social web’s early days would be of note to a few old-timers like
Best Of Ten Tips Guaranteed to Improve Your Startup Success Having had the good fortune to work with a broad range of entrepreneurs and get a front-row seat to the foundations of their success, I thought it’d be good to share 10 key tips that I’ve found work 100% of the time
Best Of What It's Like Being Verified on Twitter Update: After this post was published, I had a chance to talk about Twitter verification at a live show of the Untitled Kondabolu Brothers Project, with Hari and Ashok Kondabolu. It turned out pretty well. Twitter verification is an interesting phenomenon on the service;
Most Popular All Dashboards Should be Feeds Last week, we announced the new beta release of ThinkUp (if you’re a geek or developer, try it out!) and one of the reasons I was most excited to talk about the new release is because it has a whole new user experience
Best Of The Web We Lost Update: A few months after this piece was published, I was invited by Harvard’s Berkman Center to speak about this topic in more detail. Though the final talk is
Best Of How To Fix Popchips' Racist Ad Campaign Update: I just got off the phone with Popchips founder Keith Belling, who was sincere and contrite as he offered a thoughtful, apologetic response that indicates he understood much of
Most Popular Why you can't trust tech press to teach you about the tech industry If there were one lesson I’d want to impress upon people who are interested in succeeding in the technology industry, it would be, as I’ve said before, know your shit. Know the discipline you’re in, know the history of those who’
Most Popular Readability, Instapaper, the Network and the Price we Pay This is a long-ass post. In summary: Readability and Instapaper are two awesome reading tools that actually aren’t in competition since Readability is mostly a network and Instapaper is mostly an app. But, foolish fanboy enthusiasm on both sides has got people choosing
Best Of Facebook is gaslighting the web. We can fix it. Facebook has moved from merely being a walled garden into openly attacking its users’ ability and willingness to navigate the rest of the web. The evidence that this is true even for sites which embrace Facebook technologies is overwhelming, and the net result is
