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Gadabout, troublemaker, cyborg. Co-founder of @readmatter and new recruit @Medium.
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My chum @benjilanyado is writing about his experience of starting up — refreshingly honest in a world of bullshit: benjilanyado.wordpress.com/2013/05/21/sta…
Starting up: Chasing money
benjilanyado.wordpress.com — Three weeks ago I wrote my first post about starting up: a summary of my last year - leaving the Guardian, learning to code, and deciding to do a bizniz. I left you at the bit when I was about to go chasing rich people around London.
Why does the press keep calling David Karp a billionaire? Do they know something about raising $125m and selling at $1.1bn that I don't?
@moleitau @foe ONOES!!! hacked and stolen? cc @benward? who else can pick this up?
@annapickard or a mouse with eight legs
The sight of @ftrain’s visage emerging from my in-flight magazine! May not be enough to make this United flight bearable, but it’s a start.
@BenWard and there was me thinking you’d got them to do a microformats coffee
Explanation here: medium.com/the-year-of-gi… and background here: medium.com/the-year-of-gi…
Why I’m going to support a new crowdfunding project every week for a year
medium.com — Just over a year ago, I benefited from a remarkable piece of internet altruism. My friend Jim and I had been sketching out an idea for the media product we wanted to see in the world: MATTER, a digitally-native publisher of deep, long-form journalism about science, technology and the future.
Grand Theft Metro
medium.com — Pawel was tall, skinny and camp, and he lived in the house at the bottom of the street when I was eleven or twelve. Visiting his house used to terrify me - his dad always looked so angry with himself, like he could barely contain some sharp, harmful secret - but I relished going round because Pawel knew everything about computers.
First pick in my "year of giving dangerously" is an art project looking at Chinese "copy towns" by @ackerthompson: indiegogo.com/projects/chine…
Chinese Copy Towns
indiegogo.com — A film, book, and exhibition about the recent phenomenon of copied Western architecture in China.
@tomcoates i’ve seen a few episodes, not really got into it - but do appreciate it’s at least trying to develop in a new direction.
@tomcoates and I don’t worry about spoilers for shows that were broadcast more than a few days ago. Otherwise it’s *all* eggshells.
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