At Fast Company's Innovation Uncensored 2013 conference in San Francisco, Baratunde Thurston played emcee. At the end of the day, he and his colleagues at Cultivated Wit offered a comedic and insightful wrap-up of the day's events and highlights
On Oct 1, Baratunde delivered the All Class Lecture at Columbia School of Journalism in Manhattan. He shared case studies and lessons learned from his journalistic experiences including high school and college newspapers, political blogging for Jack and Jill Politics, five years at The Onion, live tweeting of events, and remote/virtual coverage of the raid on Occupy Wall Street in NYC
This Is How You Mayor: Taking Foursquare Politics To The Next LeveBaratunde Thurston
For 30 days, Jennifer Magnolfi and Baratunde Thurston fought for the Foursquare mayorship of a Nolita restaurant called Delicatessesn. Via blog posts, rallies, t-shirts and custom drinks, they answered the question: what happens when you treat Foursquare politics as real politics?
For a behind-the-scenes of how the talk came together, listen to Baratunde's soundcloud podcast. http://soundcloud.com/baratunde/baratundecast-cultivatedwit
On 10 March 2012, Baratunde Thurston, author of How To Be Black and Director of Digital at The Onion delivered the opening keynote at the SXSW Interactive Festival in Austin TX.
His main thesis is that comedy is a revolutionary art and language that can and does help advance the cause of freedom and understanding in an increasingly complicated world, whether it's the complexity of geo-politics or digital noise.
Link to video of the presentation will come soon.
Have you ever thought about starting your own business? Have you ever thought about turning your passion into a profit? A side business or what I like to call, a side hustle, is a great way to grow, make money and escape the 9 to 5.
At Fast Company's Innovation Uncensored 2013 conference in San Francisco, Baratunde Thurston played emcee. At the end of the day, he and his colleagues at Cultivated Wit offered a comedic and insightful wrap-up of the day's events and highlights
On Oct 1, Baratunde delivered the All Class Lecture at Columbia School of Journalism in Manhattan. He shared case studies and lessons learned from his journalistic experiences including high school and college newspapers, political blogging for Jack and Jill Politics, five years at The Onion, live tweeting of events, and remote/virtual coverage of the raid on Occupy Wall Street in NYC
This Is How You Mayor: Taking Foursquare Politics To The Next LeveBaratunde Thurston
For 30 days, Jennifer Magnolfi and Baratunde Thurston fought for the Foursquare mayorship of a Nolita restaurant called Delicatessesn. Via blog posts, rallies, t-shirts and custom drinks, they answered the question: what happens when you treat Foursquare politics as real politics?
For a behind-the-scenes of how the talk came together, listen to Baratunde's soundcloud podcast. http://soundcloud.com/baratunde/baratundecast-cultivatedwit
On 10 March 2012, Baratunde Thurston, author of How To Be Black and Director of Digital at The Onion delivered the opening keynote at the SXSW Interactive Festival in Austin TX.
His main thesis is that comedy is a revolutionary art and language that can and does help advance the cause of freedom and understanding in an increasingly complicated world, whether it's the complexity of geo-politics or digital noise.
Link to video of the presentation will come soon.
Have you ever thought about starting your own business? Have you ever thought about turning your passion into a profit? A side business or what I like to call, a side hustle, is a great way to grow, make money and escape the 9 to 5.
15. home broadband by
type of folk
White Folk Black Folk Hispanic Folk
68
70
56 65
52.5 47 57
41
48 46
42 43
35 40
31
17.5
0
2006 2007 2008 2009
Source: Pew
16. mobile internet use by
type of folk
Ever Yesterday
50
48 47
40
30
28 29 29
20
17
10
0
White Folk Black Folk Hispanic Folk
Source: Pew
17. When tethered and wireless access
are considered together, the gaps in
online engagement between whites
and blacks largely dissipates.
Source: Pew
20. The dozens is an element of the African
American oral tradition in which two
competitors, usually males, go head-to-head in an
improvised competition of often good-natured,
ribald trash talk. They take turns insulting—
cracking, snapping, West Coast dissin'", or
ranking on—one another, their adversary's
mother or other family member until one of
them has no comeback.
Source: Wikipedia
21. “Yo moms such a ho they
set up robocalls for all her
booty calls.”
- @AnilDash
Source: dashes.com/anil/2008/10/yo-mamas-so-fat.html
37. the @FutureOf:
build v buy
create v consume
inter-racial convo
38. “I believe technology is about more than
consuming. I believe technology can literally
change the world and can be used to wage
unadulterated warfare!”
- Gina McCauley, What About Our Daughters