Just to give a little context to today’s mulberry Instagram post, we recently happened upon a grove of mulberry trees off of P Street near Georgetown. I’m assuming these are widely known to Washington, D.C., locals, but seeing as how we’re new to the area, the discovery got me Googling. Chiefly, I wanted to share … Read moreMulberry trees near Georgetown
With a solid 37 hours left to go right now, it looks like Reading with Pictures’ Kickstarter campaign for a new book of educational comics can be considered a success. I interviewed Josh Elder for Education Dive a few days ago, and he was optimistic. It would seem that his positive thinking was appropriate, seeing … Read moreReading with Pictures’ ‘Graphic Textbook’ Kickstarter is funded and then some
My webcomics feed was full of all kinds of knowledge this morning. Here are a few morsels that felt particularly meaningful: • xkcd taught me to be grateful that Apple hasn’t named an OS iteration “Ocelot” yet. • Scenes from a Multiverse taught me that if Jon Rosenberg ever starts a band, that bunny panel … Read moreLessons from the week’s webcomics reading: 5/16/2012
If you aren’t from Korea or don’t have anyone close to you who is, it’s entirely likely that you don’t know about KakaoTalk. It’s an app (available for the iPhone and Android) that acts as an SMS-alternative messaging system. As I learned over the weekend, however, it also has an out-of-the-box Barack Obama voice alert. … Read moreKakaoTalk has a Barack Obama audio alert
If you haven’t been following my tweets for the last few weeks, you might have missed that I joined an exciting new D.C. startup called Industry Dive on May 1st as the company’s content director. I had been looking for the perfect D.C.-area opportunity that would involve multiplatform news editorial and production, and I’m happy … Read moreNew office and general update