SubscribeOn Building Communities
May 26, 2011 at 11:56 a.m.
Building communities on the Internet is a new kind of profession. There are an awful lot of technology companies, founded by programmers, who think they are building communities on the Internet, but they’re really just building software and wondering why the community doesn’t magically show up.
From Joel Spolsky, talking about modern community building, who goes on to detail the unique challenges of the field.
Even better, there's a job opening at the end.
On getting out of the way
June 10, 2008 at 4:26 a.m.
My Saturday gig sent me to Tennyson High School this week where alumni celebrated the school's 50th anniversary. I was tasked with adding unspecified multimedia to an already-written print story. I went, grabbed photos, audio and nachos, and built a slide show that I'm in no way happy with.
Here's where I think I went wrong: I tried to tell a linear story, and I fell all over myself doing it.
First, Soundslides was the wrong tool. It was wrong because, for the most part, it is a tool for telling stories that go from beginning to ...
