One of the USC Interactive Arts labs, via Chris Chamberlain:
Apr 132011
Ms. Laura Allen upon having Running Times publish her feature story:
Dear Students,
I don’t know where the world finds you now. I’ve been teaching just long enough that you are now scattered about the Earth, engaging in what I can only hope are memorable and amazing shenanigans although I’ve been around long enough to know that’s wishful thinking.
Life has a funny way of knocking us all around so I won’t idealize.
Please see the rest of my letter to you here.
Nov 272010
Sep 292010
Due to user error (and in this case, I am the user making the errors), my post about my first day on the job at MIT’s Technology Review – a job I took so that I could work at MIT and work for Jason Pontin – went lost into the ether.
So it seemed worthwhile to repost…and add a little extra for you.
First, the original story.
In 2004, I applied for a job as the guy in charge of building the Web operation at MIT’s Technology Review, the oldest technology magazine in the country. Two things made this appealing:
- I’m a student of technology history and MIT is the Mothership of geekdom. (My two favorite moments at MIT: Tim Berners-Lee, the dude who invented the Web, critiquing our plan by telling me “For what it is, it’s okay.”; and Bob Metcalfe, the guy who invented Ethernet, asking me the difference between a blog and a message board.);
- Jason Pontin was the Editor-in-Chief.
I’d known of Jason from my days at Wired and Wired News. He was the Editor-in-Chief of Red Herring, one of those massive technology publications poised to strike it big. That it didn’t was of no consequence. I knew I wanted to work for him.
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