Cofounder of Metalabel, Kickstarter, and The Creative Independent. Author of This Could Be Our Future and The Dark Forest Anthology of the Internet.

Today’s internet is mean. It’s hard to pinpoint exactly when everyone online became a jerk, but to me it seems that the tipping point occurred right when making money off content started being worth more than the content itself. I wrote the following post before the election but never got around to publishing it. Now, it seems more necessary than ever. from http://www.boweryboyshistory.com/ One Times Square used to be the headquarters of the New York Times in the early 1900s.

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