A newsletter by Dan Cohen on technology that helps rather than hurts human understanding, and human understanding that helps us create better technology.
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Followed e-Literate
e-Literate is a mission-driven organization dedicated to helping higher education and the education companies that serve them continuously improve in their efforts to enable more students to succeed in a 21st-Century world. We do this in two ways: Media, Events, and Community-Building e-Literate has existed as a publication since 2005 and was started as a labor of love that long predated any business ambitions. Today, its content remains free, and its name has been adopted by a larger organization that subsidizes its work. In a real sense, we are a blog that owns a company. e-Literate continues its public good mission through the blog and is expanding to other publishing channels. As an outgrowth of this work, e-Literate has started the Empirical Educator Project (EEP), which is a network of universities and vendors that conduct collaborative projects and contribute knowledge to the public domain. The EEP network generates useful knowledge about how to help students succeed and, more broadly, how to transform the institutional cultures and processes at universities so that they can adapt to changing educational needs and remain as vital and healthy in the next millennium as they have been in the last one. This expanded mission is funded through sponsorships, registration fees, and similar media and events funding mechanisms.
Thoughts on higher education, student debt, and the future.
Remains of the Day is a personal blog started in 2001 covering a random assortment of topics of interest. That doesn't narrow things down much because I have both attention deficit and surplus.
I live in San Francisco. Before that I lived in Los Angeles, New York, Seattle, and Chicago, where I grew up.
Most of my professional career has been spent at consumer internet companies. The world wide web was just heating up when I finished my undergrad education, and like many grads from Stanford, tech was always top of mind. I started off at Amazon.com and was there for seven years working on all sorts of things, but mostly product. I left Amazon to be a filmmaker, went to editing school at The Edit Center in NYC, then to UCLA Film School in their graduate directing program. But tech pulled me back in after just one year in film school.
That summer I joined the company that would become Hulu, leading the product, design, editorial, and marketing teams. In 2011 I formed a startup called Erly with a few friends. We were purchased in 2012 by Airtime, and I left that in late 2012. I was the head of product at Flipboard for two years, then the Head of Video at Oculus, which I left in July 2017. I'm now working on some of my own ideas, most of which sit at the intersection of media and technology, as well as doing some advising and angel investing.
You can find more fragments of me scattered across the web at Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, and Letterboxd, among others.
You can also email me at eugene at eugenewei dot com.
constructions in magical thinking
Digital journalism and online culture.
I wonder how IndieWeb specific his version of journalism is?
Followed Xinli Wang
I teach mathematics courses at University of Toronto Mississauga and Seneca College since 2016 when my family moved to Canada from Singapore. I taught full-time at Singapore Polytechnic as a math lecturer from 2012 to 2016. This is the space where I explore and share my journey of teaching mathematics, conducting education research projects, and learning about OER.
Followed Jon Beckett
This blog records the thoughts, ideas, and daydreams of a software and web developer, sometime blogger, and somewhat secret internet superhero called Jonathan (me).
While not bashing my head against the desk repeatedly at work, or traveling around Europe pretending to be clever, I write idiotic blog posts, and attempt to survive living in a house with four women, two cats, a hamster, and a number of fish.
I live in deepest, darkest England – land of good manners, punctuation, starched shirts, and silent indignation. I grew up near Oxford, and have ended up living in the countryside just outside London.
I like pizza (or anything easy to cook, really), wine, chocolate biscuits, tea, coffee, movies, music, and cycling. I am as as colour-blind as a hedgehog in a bag, but can draw a mean doodle. I listen to random music on Spotify, watch streaming TV shows on the internet, and wish I had more time and/or money to pursue a colossally nerdy interest in comic book artwork.
I take lots of photos – none of which are posted here. Many of them can be found at Instagram.
If you would like somebody to jump down the internet rabbit hole with, click the follow button, or send me a message – I love meeting new people, and love writing messages instead of getting on with what I should be doing.
Veteran journalist Joe Nocera’s neighbor in the Hamptons was a therapist named Ike. Ike counted celebrities and Manhattan elites as his patients. He’d host star-studded parties at his eccentric vacation house. But one summer, Joe discovered that Ike was gone and everything he’d thought he’d known about his neighbor -- and the house next door -- was wrong. From Wondery, the company behind Dirty John and Dr. Death, and Bloomberg, “The Shrink Next Door” is a story about power, control and turning to the wrong person for help for three decades. Written and hosted by Joe Nocera, a columnist for Bloomberg Opinion, “The Shrink Next Door” premieres on May 21st.
An important piece to owning your content is also having a direct connection to people who want to hear from you.
Followed Blair MacIntyre
Professor, Designer, Husband, Father, Gamer, Bagpiper
Followed Johan Bové
Front-end developer and senior Web Consultant at Deloitte Digital in Düsseldorf, Germany.
Following Marc Thiele
Hey there. My name is Marc. Since 2011 I run beyond tellerrand, an event for the (web) community. I do this full-time and as a one-man-band ever since it started and I love it.
Followed Distributed, with Matt Mullenweg
The cofounder of WordPress and CEO of Automattic embarks on a journey to understand the future of work. Having built his own 900-person company with no offices and employees scattered across 68 countries, Mullenweg examines the benefits and challenges of distributed work and recruiting talented people around the globe.
Followed The Stakes (Podcast) | WNYC Studios
A show about what it takes to create change.
Hat tip On the Media.