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| Mar 24, 2016 | INNOVATE2016: New infrastructure is the key to economic recovery | Andrew Keen Contributor
Andrew Keen is the author of three books: Cult of the Amateur, Digital Vertigo and The Internet Is Not The Answer. He produces Futurecast, and is the host of Keen On.
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| Nov 20, 2013 | Bec McHenry founder of PopUnion, The Projection Room and more! | Starting her own business at the age of 22, Bec McHenry is used to being in charge. Driven and ambitious, she started The Projection Room because she wanted to help people achieve their projections for a better world. As Australia’s second ... |
| Sep 7, 2013 | 7 #socialgood websites recommended by 8 Australian changemakers to watch | The Mashable Social Good Summit is on later this month in New York City bringing together social entrepreneurs and non-profit leaders from all over the world. To celebrate we’ve put together a list of some great #socialgood websites recomme... |
| Aug 19, 2013 | Learnable kicks off program to teach 10,000 Aussie kids to code | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Around the world, companies are scrambling to fil... |
| Aug 19, 2013 | Learnable kicks off program to teach 10,000 Aussie kids to code | Around the world, companies are scrambling to fill technical jobs.
This pain is keenly felt in Australia, and press reports have been circulating for years about the dearth of talented computer programmers.
A local ed-tech startup called Le... |
| Jul 25, 2013 | Pledge to Get Offline with At the Pool | Technology makes our lives easier, no doubt about it, but the argument could be made that being digitally connected at all times affects our health in negative ways. Back problems, headaches, blurred vision, you name it. The bottom line is ... |
| Feb 21, 2013 | Michelle Williams – founder of Ideaction | Michelle is the founder of Ideaction, a connector, facilitator, community manager (offline and online) and strategist. Michelle and Ideaction have a focus on the “participatory” environment – co-design, collaboration and online movements to... |
| Feb 21, 2013 | Where the Founders of Young Startups Find Inspiration | February 21, 2013 4 min read
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Inspiration can come from anywhere. We asked the founders of high-profile young startups to let us in on what keeps them going when things get tough... |
| Nov 28, 2012 | Young & Extraordinary Series – Nicola St John – Co-Founder of ModPod Creative | Today is the first of a series of interviews we are doing with this years participants in Young and Extraordinary – a joint initiative of the Foundation for Young Australians and Australian Youth Affairs Coalition celebrating young and extr... |
| Oct 3, 2012 | Avis Mulhall: makes a lot of ideas happen! | This week on Ideas Hoist we’re profiling Avis Mulhall, an Irish girl who ditched her successful career in Ireland in 2008 to move to Africa where she lived in a rainforest in Tanzania, travelled through 15 countries, got attacked by a cheet... |
| Sep 19, 2012 | Good Pivots To Social Media Platform: ‘The Logical Next Step’ For The ‘Community That Gives A Damn’ | Good Magazine, the publication aimed at socially-conscious consumers, has been through some ups and downs in the last year — buying social media platform Jumo (up), getting rid of editorial staff (down) and, now, pivoting the company (jury ... |
| Sep 19, 2012 | GOOD Magazine Retools As A Social Network For The Civic Self | GOOD used to be a magazine. It attracted doers and makers and activists, people with a civic mission. It wasn’t able to make a lasting business out of that, and in June, it laid off most of its editorial staff. It relaunches Wednesday, and ... |
| Aug 23, 2012 | Animation Instructor Fights Unnecessary Textbook Purchases And Gets Fired For His Trouble | Endlessly mounting tuition isn’t the only factor turning a college degree into a lifetime of student loan payments. Textbook prices are keeping pace with tuition, both of which are charging far ahead of inflation and wages. |
| Aug 22, 2012 | Burma Gets Internet Freedom for the First Time | Burma, a nation ruled by a brutally oppressive military junta for more than half a century, has undergone a strange and thrilling breakneck transition into an actual, tentative democracy. I visited Burma—which the junta renamed Myanmar in 1... |
| Aug 21, 2012 | Debunking The Myth That The Internet Generation Doesn't Buy Or Read Books | If you just listened to the popular press pushing stereotypes, you might think that kids these days can’t think in complete sentences, let alone read anything longer than 140 characters (oops, this post is too long!). And, of course, there ... |
| Aug 7, 2012 | Zach Anner Uses Reddit To Connect With Fans And Resurrect His Show | As more and more artists and entertainers come to understand that the old gatekeepers of culture are finding themselves without any gates to keep, the opportunities continue to expand. Such is the story of Zach Anner, a comedian who briefly... |
| Aug 1, 2012 | Study: Texting Iz Destroying Student Grammar | Texting-addled young minds are losing their grip on the English language, according to a new study from Wake Forest. The research, which reveals a correlation between the use of SMS-abbreviations and poor grammar proficiency, comes as bitte... |
| May 18, 2012 | Can Facebook’s New Millionaires Save the World? | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
From everyone to whom much is given, much shall be required.
Regular readers know that I’m not in the habit of quoting scripture. But this line found in the gospels of Matthew... |
| May 9, 2012 | Facebook Starts Suicide Prevention For Veterans | Courtesy of good.is
In the light of increasing suicides by veterans returning from Iraq and Afghanistan, Facebook today announced new military crisis content, developed in partnership with Blue Star Families and the Department of Veterans A... |
| Mar 29, 2012 | Gifts From VIPs: Quarterly Grabs $1.25M From Collaborative Fund And True Ventures | If you were to make a list of the business models most popular among tech startups today, a snail mail-based subscription service probably wouldn’t be at the top of the list. On that level, the Los Angeles-based Quarterly is somewhat of an ... |
| Feb 24, 2012 | That New Kickstarter for Porn Makes Us Realize Other Startups Should Have a Porn Version | First things first, there is now a Kickstarter for porn. If you don’t know, now you know. It is called Offbeater, which is both a play on “offbeat” and also reminds you of masturbating–playful and topical! It’s also an excellent idea, obvio... |
| Jan 21, 2012 | Quantifying our lives will be a top trend of 2012 | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
The Quantified Self is one of the big trends of 2... |
| Jan 21, 2012 | Quantifying our lives will be a top trend of 2012 | The Quantified Self is one of the big trends of 2012, as we noted in our recent summary of the Consumer Electronics Show.
As everything analog shifts to digital, we can collect a huge amount of data about ourselves. As I noted in our earlie... |
| Jan 11, 2012 | 50 Cent Weighs In: Waterproof Phones And Fighting Poverty | 50 Cent took the stage with our very own Matt Burns to talk about his line of SMS headphones, but that’s not all he felt like chatting about. In between giveaways, the tech-savvy musician/businessman took a moment to talk about some of the ... |
| Dec 19, 2011 | Backed By Collaborative Fund, Quarterly Launches A Subscription Service “For Wonderful Things” | What if you could subscribe to your favorite bloggers, writers, and designers, and they would send you a heartfelt gift every three months? You probably wouldn’t enjoy my packages, because I would just send you those small M&Ms packets.... |
| Dec 17, 2011 | The United States of Innovation (infographic) | Innovation has gone global. The United States is no longer the majority source of patents in the world — though it does lead other countries by a wide margin, at least as measured by the number of innovative companies that call the U.S. hom... |
| Nov 4, 2011 | Washington State Guarantees Cheap And Open Courses & Courseware For Students | We’ve discussed a bunch of times how the lack of market forces in the textbook market has allowed publishers to jack up the prices massively. It’s why various textbooks can cost around $200, and students can spend over $1000 a year just to ... |
| Oct 21, 2011 | Why Some 'Easy' Legal Questions Aren't Always So Easy: Is A Burrito A Sandwich? | I will state, up front, that I am mostly posting this because it’s hilarious — but there is a bigger point, which we’ll get to. For reasons that aren’t entirely clear, Aaron DeOliveira sent over this story from GOOD, analyzing the question:... |
| Sep 8, 2011 | Wasn't The PATRIOT Act Supposed To Be About Stopping Terrorism? | The PATRIOT Act was all about stopping terrorism, right? We were told that special provisions that ate away at our civil liberties were needed specifically to catch dangerous terrorists — and that the reason for such an abdication of our ri... |
| Aug 17, 2011 | Good Buys Jumo (Kind Of). But What Does That Really Mean? | Today Good, a magazine and online publishing platform focused on doing and spreading good stuff, announced the acquisition of Jumo. A young site that has received lots of attention, Jumo is the creation of Facebook co-founder Chris Hughes. ... |
| Aug 17, 2011 | Chris Hughes’ Social Causes Startup Jumo Gets Folded Into GOOD | Social causes startup Jumo has been acquired by GOOD, the publisher of a website and magazine aimed at do-gooders. Jumo was founded by Chris Hughes, one of Facebook’s co-founders and a Harvard roommate of Mark Zuckerberg’s. Hughes left Face... |
| Aug 9, 2011 | Good News! The Bubble that Never Inflated Has Popped | There are two kinds of bubbles. There are actual economic ones that artificially drive up valuations across broad categories in an unsustainable way, impacting markets on a mass scale. And there are psychological ones, where the real econom... |
| Jun 14, 2011 | Iceland (a.k.a. The Transparentest Place On Earth) Crowdsources Its New Constitution | We talk a lot about government transparency here at Techdirt. (We honestly do. Admittedly, the conversation tends to revolve around the lack thereof, but that’s hardly our fault. We weren’t the ones promising the most transparent government... |
| May 4, 2011 | Test-prep startup Grockit teams with charter network KIPP to gamify school | If only schools were addictive like Farmville, maybe we could fix our education system.
That’s the thinking behind a partnership announced today between the high-profile charter school network KIPP and test-prep startup Grockit, which appli... |
| Oct 14, 2010 | Tech for Transit: What Happens if You Give Up Your Car For a Week? | If you mainly rely on an automobile to get around, ask yourself this question: What kind of improvements to public transit or new service offerings would make me go car-less? A public transit mobile app with real-time, open data available? ... |
| Aug 5, 2010 | Apple Introduces us to the Smart Bike
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Many bicyclists desire accessing different information as they ride, such as speed, position, heart rate, power or other information related to components of the bicycle. To provide such information to the cyclist during t... |
| May 4, 2010 | A few things to know about electric bikes | We like electric vehicles here at CrunchGear, from the Volt to the Leaf to the Eneloop to the U3-X. But none of those are very common purchases, and although electric cars are looked forward to with anticipation, electric bikes seem to have... |
| Mar 30, 2010 | GOOD Adds YouTube CEO Chad Hurley And Pepsi CMO Jill Beraud To Advisory Board | GOOD, the company behind the integrated media platform for “people who give a damn”, has added some serious weight to its leadership team with the addition of three high-profile advisors.
The company announced today that YouTube co-founder ... |
| Feb 5, 2010 | Ten Good Reasons To Buy: The Newspaper Edition | Recently, Mike posted a concise list of Ten Good Reasons to Buy – one of two essential elements in the Connect with Fans + Reason to Buy strategy that he has been observing and helping to define for some time. These reasons were brainstorme... |
| Oct 14, 2009 | GOOD Scores Funding, Strategic Partnerships To Help Improve The World | GOOD, an integrated media platform for people who “want to live well and do good”, has announced that it has recently closed a Series A round of funding led by its co-founder and CEO Ben Goldhirsh and a number of angel investors including N... |
| Aug 28, 2009 | Friday Tech Links: Fourth most innovative, BigBelly trash video and More | In which we link out to the tech news from Philly and elsewhere (when it matters) that slips through the cracks and make it way fun. See others here.DEFINITE READS
Innovation Philadelphia reports that our fair city was ranked the fourth mos... |
| Jun 30, 2009 | Interview With A Patent Troll… Which Skips The Key Questions | Aaron Martin-Colby points us to Good Magazine’s softball interview with Erich Spangenberg, considered by many to be one of the more successful “patent trolls” or “non-practicing entities” out there. The interview is a huge disappointment, t... |
| Mar 3, 2009 | Behance’s Scott Belsky on productivity tools for the creative community | Action is the substance of excellence. Far too often our ideas distract us from what we need to do because we focus on what we could do.
The tech industry is fueled by novel ideas. But its preoccupation with measurable results often means t... |
| Oct 9, 2008 | Can 'Pay What You Want' Work Outside Of The Music Industry? | Last year, Radiohead garnered incredible attention by offering its album for free and asking fans to pay what they want. Contrary to the guffaws of many, the experiment turned out to be a smart decision which was quickly copied by other mus... |
