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Glenn Fleishman
In February 2023, I helped @mwichary run what became the #1 tech book campaign on Kickstarter for his massive tome, Shift Happens. How did we raise over $750,000 in the campaign (and sell more copies later)? How did we deal with the expected—and surprise problems? I've detailed all that in this essay: https://glennf.medium.com/how-we-crowdfunded-750-000-for-a-giant-book-about-keyboard-history-c30e24c4022e Hard-won advice from this weathered campaign veteran.
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@glennf this post could be a book on its own. So much good information here!
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Glenn Fleishman
Did you love Yahoo! Pipes and miss it? I sure did. I wrote this history of the graphical web-based processing tool that sure seemed like the future when it was introduced! https://retool.com/pipes I interviewed the core team and several other folks so we could finally have a definitive history. (And forget my words, even—the illustrations are amazing!) This is part of a series at Retool, a visual programming tools company, that decided to make sure the past wasn’t forgotten.
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Exhaust_Fumes
@glennf Oh! I used Yahoo Pipes to do a bot that replaced Tweets about Shakespeare with Tweets about John Fletcher. It was really great to have something like that since I didn't know how to do it myself!
Glenn Fleishman
Glenn Fleishman
Twitter has given us all the insight we ever needed into the phrase “if you’re not paying for the product, you ARE the product.”
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JW prince of CPH
@glennf It's true, but it's actually somehow, impossibly, even worse than that: Those who pay platforms for access to the product that is our attention are also being exploited. @doctorow explains 👉 https://pluralistic.net/2023/01/21/potemkin-ai/#hey-guys |
@glennf I just pledged!
Excitingly, book project just passed $60,000 of $150,000 required to make it all work—design, licensing, printing, shipping, travel, scanning fees, editing, proofing, indexing! Being 40% of the way there is a good way towards 100%!
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/glennf/how-comics-were-made?ref=1fga5h
@glennf You musta loved the closing credits of THE POST. I don't know where they resurrected those Linotype machines, but they look like larger versions of what we had in my High School Print Shop.