We were fortunate enough to lunch with Schuyler Towne today. Lorrie closes the blast door between our two buildings, which sets the appropriate tone for a talk on lockpicking. MIT Tech TV Schuyler Towne is obsessed with locks. He got his start as a competitive picker, winning the American Open […]
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One of Tim O’Reilly’s favorite quotes goes, “The skill of writing is to create a context in which other people can think” (said by Edwin Schlossberg). Tim’s detected a pattern of success across his long and accomplished career, and it is the ability to detect and annunciate patterns that haven’t […]
Updated with industry benchmark petition conversion rates (4/11/12) and illustration by Lyla Duey (8/18/12). For weeks, the only Trayvon Martin coverage I saw was on Twitter, where every progressive I knew had shared a link to the Change.org petition. Eventually, I saw more media attention around the story. This led […]
MIT Tech TV @jayrosen_nyu and @ethanz discussed the past, present, and future of journalism at this evening’s MIT Communications Forum. He actually used the word “tripartite,” but I thought cake would be better for SEO. This is as close to a faithful transcript as my fingers would allow. Jay’s been […]
MIT Tech TV Caroline Woolard is an artist, innovator and activist whose work focuses on alternative economics, particularly ones based on sharing and bartering. Her presentation at the Center for Civic Media focuses on some of the projects she’s helped start, including OurGoods and TradeSchool, and a larger framework, called […]