Baratunde Thurston and Brian Janosch Discuss Their New Web Series about Crowdfunding
From Slate.com. Baratunde Thurston is former director of digital for The Onion and the author of How to Be Black. Brian Janosch is currently writer-at-large at The Onion. Slate spoke with them about their new web series, Funded, which tells the stories of small businesses that have used crowdfunding to get off the ground. Slate: What’s the idea behind Funded? Baratunde Thurston: We—meaning Cultivated Wit, a company I helped […]
How Pretty Pictures Are Conquering Online Shopping
For its first 15 years, online shopping consisted mainly of typing words into search engines. Sellers would jockey for top position in the results, and buyers were at the mercy of search-ranking algorithms. That text-driven model of e-commerce is slowly but surely beginning to change, giving way to a more visual form of shopping, in […]
Incredible Pictures of Early Science Labs
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