A historical collection of our writing.
Today is American Censorship Day, so named because there is legislation working its way through Congress that would materially harm innovation and impede speech.You can read about why so many of us feel so strongly that this legislation is particularly harmful in these places – I picked out just […] Read more (opens Andy Weissman in a new tab)
My friend Mike White told me the other day that he uses the photo sharing service Instagram because it makes him happy. That stuck in my head.So I remembered that the mission statement for the Cheezburger Network is “5 minutes of happiness each day” and I was thinking about that statement and how […] Read more (opens Andy Weissman in a new tab)
A few weeks back, Ryan Bubinski, who co-founded Codecademy with Zach Sims, said to me that he thought learning how to code should be a fundamental skill on par with learning how to read or write or do arithmetic. And, that the Internet was the ideal platform to create the largest community learning […] Read more
For many years, I have been a reader of this blog. I’m excited, and humbled, by the opportunity to now be a contributor and to announce here that I have joined Union Square Ventures. In early 2007, when I joined up with John Borthwick and began discussing something that would later be called […] Read more
Chris Poole, founder of Canvas, “a place to share and play with images” gave an amazing talk the other day, Self-Expression through Social Media, you can see it below:Chris speaks about how identity intersects with the forms and methods of self-expression. He says that, for services that enhance […] Read more (opens Andy Weissman in a new tab)
In real life I am who I am. As Boon and Watt once wrote: “Real names be proof.”But does a name, a real name, an identity, capture the full richness of personal self-expression? I’m not sure it does – indeed I believe that one of the promises of the Internet is that online social networks […] Read more (opens Andy Weissman in a new tab)
