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Interview with Maciej Ceglowski of Pinboard.in

May 7, 2013 — Leave a comment

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Interview with Maciej Ceglowski of Pinboard.in

Maciej Ceglowski is the founder of Pinboard.in, an "anti-social" bookmarking site. As the social web evolves, some trends mature past the initial commodified service value to become strong cottage industries. A for-pay service inspired by the original del.icio.us, Pinboard.in takes a holistic approach to personal data tracking. The service integrates smoothly with the contemporary web of indie apps, and excels at truly frictionless clickstream cacheing.

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A Podcast Interview with Maciej Ceglowski of Pinboard.in
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RSS is dead! Long live RSS! An Interview with The Old Reader

May 7, 2013 — Leave a comment

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RSS is dead! Long live RSS!

This interview was recorded the week after Google announced the death of beloved feed parsing app, Google Reader. The headlines regarding Reader's demise have been predictably and wonderfully hyperbolic.

Elena Bulygina and Anton Tolchanov, two of the three co-founders of The Old Reader, help us make sense of a post-Google Reader world.

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A podcast interview with The Old Reader.
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KoPoint Conversations

April 24, 2013 — Leave a comment

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KoPoint podcasts will return Monday, April 29th! I'm excited to release the first non-commercial series KoPoint episodes. Spring shows will focus on simple structured conversations with interesting people.

In the can and ready for a final mix are interviews with a few tech and media innovators:

  • Maciej Ceglowski, Pinboard.in
  • Elena Bulygina and Anton Tolchanov, TheOldReader
  • Andy Bowers, Executive Producer of Podcasting for…

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KoPoint KoPoint podcasts will return Monday, April 29th! I’m excited to release the first non-commercial series KoPoint episodes. Spring shows will focus on simple structured conversations with interesting people. In the can and ready for a final mix are interviews with a few tech and media innovators: These episodes will be released on Mondays and Fridays for the next several weeks. After a short break in late-May, KoPoint will resume show production with The Murdoc Jones Show, Beer Diplomacy, Win the Room, and The Comic Book Podcast. We’ll also introduce a new travel show mini-season called The Landing Strip Show. Structured conversations and interviews with interesting characters will be KoPoint’s focus through the summer. Starting in May, I’ll be joined bySumAll‘s Hoyd Breton for discussions with technology and startup innovators. In May, Hoyd and I will interview the smart folks behindFuzzco‘s Defense and Maimery zombie gear, as well as Sean Howe, author of Marvel Comics: The Untold Story. This past March I was hired as a data journalist by SumAll.org, the non-commercial arm of SumAll.com, a New York data science startup and KoPoint’s studio host and sponsor. Working for SumAll.org allows me to to work with the team that initially sponsored KoPoint and focus on great content, rather than business development. Creating podcasts non-commercially removes KoPoint’s commercial constraints and allows us to push our ambitions to reach new and exciting creative goals. On a personal note, I’ve never been more excited than I am now about the potential of KoPoint content. As always, stay tuned! - DHP
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Shop The Zombie Apocalypse

April 8, 2013

Link: Shop The Zombie Apocalypse

theinevitablezombieapocalypse:

Shop.TheZombieApocalypse.Com Lives! Alongside our zombie blog, The Zombie Apocalypse ecommerce shop compliments the essential zombie apocalypse survival community.

At launch, we’re offering t-shirts inspired by community designs.

  • The Survive On t-shirt is our inaugural shirt, and features The Zombie Apocalypse official logo.
  • The Zombie On t-shirt is a community submission, and will be soon be featured in a blog-focused submission contest.

Our shop is powered by Shopify, and merchandising is delivered through Merchify. Both are very cool, smart companies that understand scalable ecommerce. Our data and metrics are powered by NYC-based data firm SumAll.

Although we’re starting with t-shirts, both of these designs will soon be included on coffee mugs, posters, and laptop skins. We’re currently working with members of our forums to create more zombie apocalypse merch and designs.

This summer, our team will release an ebook that fleshes out the universe of The Zombie Apocalypse. By purchasing a t-shrit you help us pay our writers and keep the servers alive.

Thanks for listening and tuned for more killer zombie apocalypse survival merch.

Keep calm. Zombie on!

- TZA

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KoPoint Is Dead. Long Live KoPoint!

March 22, 2013 — Leave a comment

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At the end of the month, KoPoint, INC - the corporate entity - will cease to exist. KoPoint did not make enough money to scale the content or the business, so I've decided to dissolve the business. Closing my first company was a difficult but necessary decision.

Dissolving the corporate entity will allow KoPoint to flourish as a non-commercial creative venture!

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Closing my first company has been a solid learning experience. On a personal level, I feel a mixture of wistful remorse for what didn't work, and excitement about both the zombie business, and the prospect of KoPoint as a non-commercial creative enterprise. KoPoint: Our Victory is Imminent ## ## ##

KoPoint Is Dead. Long Live KoPoint!

At the end of the month, KoPoint, INC – the corporate entity – will cease to exist. KoPoint did not make enough money to scale the content or the business, so I’ve decided to dissolve the business. Closing my first company was a difficult but necessary decision. Dissolving the corporate entity will allow KoPoint to flourish as a non-commercial creative venture! We will continue to publish great programs from our studio in soho. I’m fortunate to have worked with many great producers over the past year, and I’m looking forward to creating more cool shows with interesting people. Programming will focus more on interviews and structured conversations around interesting and niche topics. Programming will also remain awesome. Here’s what’s happening with the business:
  • I’m dissolving KoPoint, INC. While I’m proud of the company and what we created, I also need to make real decisions about what generates revenue at scale, and what does not.
  • We’re doubling down on zombies. Really! In April we’ll launch The Zombie Apocalypse, INC. We recently acquired the domain TheZombieApocalypse.com, our zombie blog has taken off, and to that end we’re launching an ecommerce store. If you’ve been following this blog, you know that in addition to creating zombie merch, our small team has written a cool ebook, and is finishing an audiobook to be available in iTunes and on vinyl this summer.
As a creative force, KoPoint was a driving success. In a year, we produced great programs and talked with fascinating people. We built a small but loyal audio-focused audience. We sold some advertising. And KoPoint will continue to grow! Dropping the corporate pretense allows KoPoint to focus on creating relaxed and organic content. Here’s what’s happening with KoPoint podcasts and content:
  • We’re going to doubledown on audio. KoPoint.com will be a very flat and simple page with links to our iTunes and audio feeds.
  • KoPoint’s primary podcast will feature more of my voice, joined in structured conversation with interesting people.
  • We’ll continue to produce great shows from our studio in soho in-house shows will return in late-Spring. Shows will be more focused, and probably only one at a time. For example, we’ll do another season of Beer Diplomacy in late-Spring, with a renewed emphasis on NYC stand-up comedy. We’ll also do one-off longform episodes of the Comic Book Podcast with creators who live and work in NYC.
  • We’ll release a few of our remaining syndicated shows. I have several cool stocked episodes from KoPoint producers to be released in the coming weeks.
  • The KoPoint Wire – a curated feed of stuff our producers like – will return atwire.kopoint.com.
I’d like to thank SumAll for their continued support, the great hosts and producers I’ve worked with over the past year, and my rock-solid underwriters. KoPoint is, was, and will be devoted to creating excellent content with dedicated producers. Thanks for listening, stay tuned, and long live The Zombie Apocalypse! - Dan Patterson
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From shortformblog: As you may have read, Reuters’ Matthew Keys—who is a contributor to SFB—has been indicted on conspiracy charges related to the hacker group Anonymous.

March 15, 2013

Link: From shortformblog: As you may have read, Reuters’ Matthew Keys—who is a contributor to SFB—has been indicted on conspiracy charges related to the hacker group Anonymous.

Reuters Deputy Social Media Editor Chared With Allegedly Assisting Anonymous

A few years ago I was in a very similar position for a very large news organization. I made different decisions. Tracking the differences between the web’s reaction and traditional media’s reaction to the metastory will by interesting…

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Matthew Keys, a deputy social media editor at Thomson Reuters, has been charged in an indictment for allegedly conspiring with members of the hacker group “Anonymous” to hack into a Tribune Company website, the Justice Department announced today.

Keys, a former web producer for the Tribune Co-owned television station KTXL FOX 40, in Sacramento, Calif., was charged with providing members of the group with log-in credentials for a computer server belonging to the Tribune Co., according to the DoJ’s press release.

In case you’d like to read the indictment, here it is.

Quick statement: Matt’s a good friend, and we’ve worked closely together for a couple of years, bouncing ideas off of one another and the whole bit. I talked to him three hours ago. The rest of the staff had no knowledge of this situation, and we offer no other statement other than to hope that one of our favorite people is OK. Good luck, Matt. — Ernie @ SFB

EDIT: Reworded to clarify.

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Podcast: Ken Segall Keeps it Simple | Win the Room

March 6, 2013

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Having someone like Ken visit KoPoint is a huge honor, and was a ton of fun.

kopoint:

Ken Segall Keeps it Simple | Win the Room

Kelly Hadous

Recorded live at KoPoint

Ken Segall Keeps it Simple:  Ken shares how win your room with simplicity.

Bio From KenSegall.com:
My story is a simple one. I’m a writer who worked at ad agencies with high standards, then met a client with absurdly high standards: Steve Jobs. From ‘Think Different’ to iMac and beyond, I found that Steve’s love of simplicity was at the core of Apple’s every success…

Kelly: Have you ever wondered what it would be like to work closely with Steve Jobs or name a product so brilliantly that it’s etched forever in the pages of history. Well I was, and that’s why I had to bring my dear friend Ken Segall on WTR radio.

Ken Segall worked closely with Steve Jobs at Apple. Ken is that guy we can thank for coming up with the name iMac, and the rest my friends is naming history. That cute little “i” became the foundation for naming all the other Apple products that followed.

We also chat about marketing ideas, and Ken says just “be yourself” I love it! How many times in a day do we worry and agonize about how we’re perceived, but if we just get out of our own way, then magic starts to happen!

Ken talks to moi at KoPoint, about his behind closed meetings with Steve Jobs and shares some awesome insights on his marketing strategies in Insanely Simple.

Finally, Scoopertino, Ken’s blog about all things sardonic in the unreal apple world is a hoot to say the least, and it always causes quite a stir not only for apple lovers, but the entire produce section.

I just adore Ken and I know you will too!

Share your comments, they’re always appreciated.

- Kelly and WTR team!

Thanks for listening.

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Contest: Design The Zombie Apocalypse | 99designs

February 25, 2013

Link: Contest: Design The Zombie Apocalypse | 99designs

This is one of the first public moves that KoPoint has made around our zombie properties since acquiring TheZombieApocalypse.com last month. The intent is to build an organic, community-focused site (forums.thezombieapocalypse.com) integrated with a crowdsourced shop.

Our blog following is substantial, smart, growing, and a great way to ‘acquire’ an opt-in audience.

The t-shirt design will be hooked deeply with the blog, and as spring approaches we’ll encourage our followers to submit snapshots of themselves in the t-shirt.

The shop will be soon feature an ebook written in-house by old friends and community members.

99designs lets us both scale the contents  and provide incentives for the participants.

Our contest is funded by KoPoint sponsor SumAll, and serves as a really cool experiment in organic ecommerce.

theinevitablezombieapocalypse:

Dear Survivors of The Zombie Apocalypse:

Today we’re excited to announce the launch of a week-long t-shirt logo design contest.

We’ll soon release a line of limited-edition essential zombie survival gear. We figured the best way to get the merch store started was with an inguinal t-shirt designed by you, and hosted on 99designs.

Here are the details:

  • The t-shirt design contest will last for one week.
  • The design will be used on The Zombie Apocalypse sites and as our first community-focused t-shirt.
  • The winner will receive a prize of $299 (please see the rules on 99designs.com), and credit in a blog post.
  • We’ll also do our best to consider and potentially contact runners-up about working together in the future.

KoPoint’s friends and sponsor SumAll is underwriting the contest.

This site has grown tremendously over the years. We now have several hundred thousand followers, and we thank you all for your great contributions.

We have opened invitations to our forums and the leaderboard is growing fast with First Wave survivors.

We’re also in the process of launching a crowdsourced shop (or, should we say ‘survivor’-sourced?) that will sell essential zombie apocalypse survival gear.

This spring, after launching the inaugural t-shirt, we’ll launch an ebook written by DJ Raspe and Natalie Zutter about the origins of The Zombie Apocalypse.

Thanks much for following The Zombie Apocalypse. We have some big plans for the coming year!

Keep calm. Survive on. Fight zombies.

- TZA

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