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A Founder of NewCo, sovrn, Federated Media, Web 2 Summit, Industry Standard, Wired; investor and writer on Media, Technology, Culture, Business

Marin, California
Joined April 2008

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  1. Boston Globe to publish fake front page on Trump presidency

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    Auditor is wrong on UC admissions. More from me on this shortly

  3. I wish there was an animated gif showing Mike Mulligan and his steam shovel making sh*t happen. I'd use that a lot.

  4. </rant> Except - same for the autoplay video ads that run endlessly in inactive tabs. Stop polluting our collective viewability. K, done.

  5. Publishers should respect their audiences first. The rest follows, if you're earning it.

  6. Cheap advertising is cheap advertising, and it impugns good branded content.

  7. And sure, I skimmed an Esquire piece about an NBA wife. OK, so does that mean I get chased around the web by this?

  8. Another ( from respectable publications I read last night). At the end of articles about important & worthy stories

  9. Or are truly defanged, which is a shame. Example:

  10. 2/? The entire editorial, design, and UX department of every publication who runs this stuff are either whistling past their own graveyard

  11. Had this rant in me for a bit. But I really hate the sh*t at the end of nearly every "traditional" publication's article pages.

  12. The next hot job in Silicon Valley is for poets

  13. I just published “Attention Writers, Designers, Graphic Artists, Storytellers, Editors, List Makers, and…”

  14. Welcome Brian Monahan (), NewCo Co-Founder, as NewCo's Chief Evangelist - via

  15. This Photographer Takes Fun Portraits of People After One, Two and Three Glasses of Wine

  16. Pence!!!!

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    Wanna behind the Inkjet cartridges at all day? This is for you.

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