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XOXO (festival)
XOXO was an annual festival and conference held in Portland, Oregon, that described itself as "an experimental festival for independent artists who live and work online". XOXO was founded in 2012 by Andy Baio and Andy McMillan with funding from prepaid tickets and other contributions via Kickstarter. In 2016, technology website ''The Verge'' called it "the internet's best festival". XOXO was held every year from 2012 to 2019 except for 2017. It was not held between 2020 and 2023, as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. The final festival was held in 2024. History XOXO was an annual festival and conference that focused on indie creators and artists working on the web. Except for a larger conference in 2018, the conference was limited to around 1,000 attendees, and organizers introduced an application and lottery system to promote diversity and discourage attendees who were focused on marketing to other attendees. Speakers at the festivals were most often independent creators, a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Etsy
Etsy, Inc. is an American e-commerce company with an emphasis on the selling of handmade or vintage items and craft supplies. These items fall under a wide range of categories, including jewelry, bags, clothing, home decor, religious items, furniture, toys, art, as well as craft supplies and tools. Items described as vintage must be at least 20 years old. The site follows in the tradition of open craft fairs, giving sellers personal storefronts where they list their goods for a fee of US$0.20 per item. Beginning in 2013, Etsy allowed sellers to sell mass-manufactured items. , Etsy had over 100 million items in its marketplace, and the online marketplace for handmade and vintage goods connected 8 million sellers with 96 million buyers. At the end of 2024, Etsy had 2,400 employees. In 2024, Etsy had total sales, or gross merchandise sales (GMS), of US$12.6 billion on the platform. That year, Etsy garnered a revenue of $2.81 billion and registered a net gain of $303&nb ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Matthew Haughey
Matthew Haughey (born October 10, 1972) is an American programmer, web designer, and blogger. He is best known as the founder of the community weblog MetaFilter, where he is called ''mathowie''. Life and career Haughey grew up in Placentia, California. He graduated from the University of California, Riverside with a B.S. and M.S. in environmental science. Haughey designed his first website in 1995. From 1997 to 2000, he was a webmaster and programmer for Social Sciences Computing at UCLA. He moved to the San Francisco Bay area in 2000s, worked as an employee of Pyra Labs, and participated in the development of early versions of Blogger. In 2001, he worked briefly for KnowNow and Bitzi. Life led him to relocate to Portland, Oregon, where he served as creative director at Creative Commons from 2002 to 2005. In 1999, Haughey launched MetaFilter, a community weblog and internet forum, which he programmed his own using Macromedia ColdFusion and Microsoft SQL Server. This paper w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Casey Newton
Casey Newton (born June 19, 1980) is an American technology journalist, a former senior editor at ''The Verge'', and the founder of, and writer for, the ''Platformer'' newsletter. Career Newton had been covering the Arizona State Legislature for ''The Arizona Republic'', with an interest in technology as a hobby. Kristen Go, a former coworker at ''The Arizona Republic'', invited him to work at the ''San Francisco Chronicle'' to cover tech companies and new technology. Later, he was a blogger and senior writer for CNET until 2013. Afterward, between 2013 and 2020, he covered Silicon Valley at ''The Verge'' and became a senior editor. During his time at ''The Verge'', he wrote a daily newsletter called ''The Interface''. His reporting on the effects of content moderation on workers (resulting in PTSD) has led to a contracting company cutting ties with Facebook. ''Platformer'' In 2020, he left to publish his own newsletter, ''Platformer'', on Substack. with the paid subscr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Portland Police Bureau
The Portland Police Bureau (PPB), officially the Portland Bureau of Police, is the law enforcement agency of the city of Portland, Oregon, Portland, the largest city in the U.S. state of Oregon. As of September 2024, the Bureau has around 800 sworn members, 35 Law Enforcement Exploring, cadets, and over 300 professional staff. Prior to 2025, when Portland operated under a City commission government, city commission form of government, oversight of Portland's bureaus shifted among the five Government of Portland, Oregon, City Commissioners, with the Mayors of Portland, Oregon, mayor being assigned to the Police Bureau as the police commissioner due to tradition. As of January 1, 2025, the chief of police acts as the primary executive of the agency. History From 1851 to 1870, Portland was policed by a town marshal. After 1861, the marshal was empowered to hire deputies, but they did not have permanent jobs until late in the 1860s. In 1970, the Portland City Council (Oregon), ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Gamergate Controversy
Gamergate or GamerGate (GG) was a loosely organized misogynistic online harassment campaign motivated by a right-wing backlash against feminism, diversity, and progressivism in video game culture. It was conducted using the hashtag "#Gamergate" primarily in 2014 and 2015. Gamergate targeted women in the video game industry, most notably feminist media critic Anita Sarkeesian and video game developers Zoë Quinn and Brianna Wu. Gamergate began with an August 2014 blog entry called "The Zoe Post" by Quinn's ex-boyfriend, which falsely insinuated that Quinn had received a favorable review because of Quinn's sexual relationship with a games journalist. The blog post was spread to 4chan, where many users had previously disparaged Quinn's work. This led to a campaign of harassment against Quinn, coordinated through anonymous message boards such as 4chan, 8chan, and Reddit. The harassment campaign expanded to target Sarkeesian, Wu, and others who defended Quinn, and included ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
The Daily Dot
''The Daily Dot'' is a digital media company covering the culture of the Internet and the World Wide Web. It was founded by Nicholas White in 2011, and is headquartered in Austin, Texas. The site, conceived as the Internet's "hometown newspaper", focuses on topics such as streaming entertainment, geek culture, memes, gadgets and social issues, such as LGBT, gender and race. In addition, an e-commerce arm produces branded video for advertisers and sells items from an online marketplace. History ''The Daily Dot'' was established in 2011 by Nicholas White, whose goal was to cover Internet communities such as Reddit and Tumblr in the same manner as hometown newspapers cover their own communities. White's family has been in the newspaper business since buying the '' Sandusky Register'' in Ohio in 1869, and White was a reporter and executive with the family's media company before establishing the site. White launched ''The Daily Dot'' with $600,000 and a handful of full-time ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Paul Ford (technologist)
Paul Ford (born August 11, 1974) is an American writer, programmer, and entrepreneur, based in New York City. In 1997, he started ''Ftrain.com'', one of the earliest blogs. He wrote for ''Harper's Magazine'' from 2004 to 2010 and is a regular contributor to ''Wired Magazine''; he has been published in The New Yorker, The New York Times Magazine, MIT Technology Review, and NPR. In 2015, he published a 38,000-word article in Bloomberg Businessweek titled "What is Code", a "deep dive into the meaning, practice, culture, and business of software", and the longest article ever run in the magazine. The piece won a National Magazine Award in 2016, was included in ''The Best American Magazine Writing 2016'' published by the American Society of Magazine Editors and Columbia University Press, and Ford, together with Bloomberg editor Josh Tyrangiel, appeared on ''Charlie Rose'' to discuss it. Ford is the author of ''The Secret Lives of Web Pages'' first published in 2016, with an updated e ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Erin McKean
Erin McKean (born 1971) is an American lexicographer. Early life and education McKean was born in Charlotte, North Carolina. She graduated from the University of Chicago with a BA/MA in Linguistics. As an undergraduate, she worked in a junior capacity on the Chicago Assyrian Dictionary. She has since served on the Visiting Committee to the University of Chicago's Regenstein Library, and she helped organize a dictionary-themed exhibit, ''The Meaning of Dictionaries'', there in 2007. Career McKean is a founder of Reverb, which makes the online dictionary Wordnik. She was previously the editor in chief of US Dictionaries for Oxford University Press and Principal Editor of '' The New Oxford American Dictionary'', second edition. McKean is also the editor of ''VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly'', and edited a collection of work from that publication, ''Verbatim: From the bawdy to the sublime, the best writing on language for word lovers, grammar mavens, and armchair linguists' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Lexicography
Lexicography is the study of lexicons and the art of compiling dictionaries. It is divided into two separate academic disciplines: * Practical lexicography is the art or craft of compiling, writing and editing dictionaries. * Theoretical lexicography is the scholarly study of semantic, orthography, orthographic, syntagma (linguistics), syntagmatic and paradigmatic features of lexemes of the lexicon (vocabulary) of a language, developing theories of dictionary components and structures linking the data in dictionaries, the needs for information by users in specific types of situations, and how users may best access the data incorporated in printed and Electronic dictionary, electronic dictionaries. This is sometimes referred to as "metalexicography". There is some disagreement on the definition of lexicology, as distinct from lexicography. Some use "lexicology" as a synonym for theoretical lexicography; others use it to mean a branch of linguistics pertaining to the inventor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Gina Trapani
Gina Marie Trapani (born September 19, 1975) is an American tech blogger, web developer, writer, and technology executive. Early life and education Trapani was born and raised in an Italian Catholic family in Brooklyn, New York. Trapani graduated from Marist College and earned an MS in Computer Science at Brooklyn College. Career She began her writing career in high school as a writer for ''New Youth Connections'' (now ''YCteen''), a magazine written by and for New York City teens published by Youth Communication. Trapani founded the Lifehacker blog in January 2005, resigning in January 2009. She later joined Expert Labs where she led development of ThinkUp, an open-source social media aggregation and analysis tool, which was shuttered in 2016. In 2017 she joined Postlight as Director of Engineering, and is now CEO. Trapani has also been featured on yourBlogstory, a popular Bloggers featuring network. Trapani has published three books and has also written for other publica ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Lifehacker
''Lifehacker'' is a weblog about life hacks and software that launched on 31 January 2005. The site was originally launched by Gawker Media and is owned by Ziff Davis. The blog posts cover a wide range of topics including Microsoft Windows, Macintosh, Linux programs, iOS, and Android, as well as general life tips and tricks. The website is known for its fast-paced release schedule from its inception, with content being published every half hour all day long. ''Lifehacker'' has international editions: ''Lifehacker Australia'' ( owned by Pedestrian), ''Lifehacker Japan'', and ''Lifehacker UK'', which feature most posts from the U.S. edition along with extra content specific to local readers. ''Lifehacker UK'' folded on 9 September 2020 when its British publisher decided not to renew its license. History Gina Trapani founded ''Lifehacker'' and was the site's sole blogger until September 2005, when two associate editors joined her, Erica Sadun and D. Keith Robinson. Other fo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Welcome To Night Vale
''Welcome to Night Vale'' is an absurdist supernatural fiction podcast created by Joseph Fink and Jeffrey Cranor. It is presented as a community radio show in the fictional American desert town of Night Vale, with the eccentric local radio host reporting on the bizarre and unnatural events that occur within it. The podcast has been produced by Night Vale Presents since 2012. Nearly every episode is written by Fink and Cranor. However, other writers have done work on the series; Brie Williams is the most frequent contributor. The podcast stars Cecil Baldwin as Cecil Gershwin Palmer, Night Vale's radio host, and occasionally features guest voices as secondary characters, including Dylan Marron, Jasika Nicole, Mara Wilson and Jackson Publick. The cast also performs live shows in various venues, many of which have been released online as audio recordings. The podcast has garnered a cult following and critical acclaim for its surreal humor and horror, and LGBTQ+ representa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
