“Content is culture. You don’t ‘solve’ culture: you just facilitate the flow of its consumption.”
— Trond Werner Hansen in The Instagram of news is here and it’s way smarter than you think
Positions are open in email, analytics, social media, content strategy, website development and data / tech management.
Here’s a compelling pitch for Ello, the ad-free social network. It’s a pitch, clearly, from Paul Budnitz, the CEO. It’s also a nice summary of Facebook’s user surveillance and tracking.
“Why this insistent emphasis on choices and filtering now? It’s obvious: when everything is available, within reach, accessible, the problem becomes not one of scarcity but of abundance. Where to find, amid the glut, what is right for you? How to separate the music from the noise?”
— David Byrne in A great curator beats any big company’s algorithm
The very best blogging I’ve ever encountered has had nothing to do with brands or being seen or newsletter growth or client acquisition. The very best posts I’ve ever read have been from the heart, and have beautifully touched upon elements of life too easily missed.
– Catherinethewriter in Forget SEO: 10 Better Reasons to Blog
The media, unable to comprehend an alternative discourse to themselves, have created their ‘bogey’ platform.
We’ve got a block of seats for the Global Media Forum June 22-24, 2015, in Bonn, Germany. If you’d like to participate as a guest (no charge) send us a note.
“In the last couple of decades, the answer to the introvert’s dilemma was easy: get a computer and learn to code. Like a novelist (another popular introvert career path), you can create a new world using only words.”
– Ben Klemons in HTTPS: the end of an era
The program brings together an intriguing mix of founders, thinkers, business and social venture leaders, philanthropists and media to share their perspective on how we can all participate in changing the world.