Hi. I’d like to take a moment to talk about technology entrepreneurship. First, the context A few days ago, Brian Sierakowski published an exit interview with Baltimore entrepreneur Paul Capestany. Paul (who, alas, I don’t personally know) is a smart fellow who recently decided to leave Baltimore to pursue his entrepreneurial dreams in San Francisco. [...]
Category Archives: Baltimore
Columbia University thinks journalists should be able to program their own tools
September 27, 2010 – 2:27 pm
Well son-of-a-gun. This morning I finally got around to reading last week’s New York Times Sunday Magazine. Turns out the day I was busy building Seymour was the day this article appeared on my doorstep: And now, the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism is starting a dual-degree master’s program in journalism and computer science. [...]
A few quick thoughts on Twittereporting
September 16, 2010 – 2:32 pm
Having just written about my underwhelming experience with the paper version of the Baltimore Sun, I want to balance my account with a description of how that organization is doing something very very right, and doing it in a larger context that is very very interesting. The Story This morning around 11 AM a man, [...]
Every damn thing I do makes me think of product design.
September 12, 2010 – 10:47 pm
I ventured into the drizzle this morning to buy myself a Baltimore Sun. I wanted to see the new Sun Magazine. It was restored to life today after a fourteen year hibernation. I will admit to you some measure of excitement as I strode through an unexpectedly chilly rain. Is that nerdy? Perhaps that’s nerdy. [...]
Ten Hopes
June 21, 2010 – 9:34 am
Wendell Berry speaking at a college commencement in 1989. Submitted without comment. Beware the justice of Nature. Understand that there can be no successful human economy apart from Nature or in defiance of Nature. Understand that no amount of education can overcome the innate limits of human intelligence and responsibility. We are not smart enough [...]