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Oct 15, 2024 | waxy.org | Andy Baio

Last week, we released the talks from the final XOXO. In the eight years that Andy McMillan and I put on XOXO, we had so many wonderful talks—you can peruse the featured tag for some of our favorites from the full archive—but I think we both agreed this was the single best day of talks we ever had. The consistency was so high, it was clear every speaker understood the assignment. Every talk is worth watching.

Aug 15, 2024 | waxy.org | Andy Baio

15 years ago this week, Kind of Bloop: An 8-Bit Tribute to Miles Davis came out on the 50th anniversary of the release of Kind of Blue, the bestselling jazz album of all time. I started the project as a bit of a goof, launching on Kickstarter on May 12, 2009, only 14 days after Kickstarter itself launched. I wanted to test out the platform I’d helped to build, to see what the experience was like as a creator.

Jan 18, 2024 | waxy.org | Andy Baio

Ello launched on August 7, 2014 with big dreams and big promises, a new social network defined by what it wouldn’t do. They laid it all out in a manifesto, right on their homepage:Your social network is owned by advertisers. Every post you share, every friend you make and every link you follow is tracked, recorded and converted into data. Advertisers buy your data so they can show you more ads. You are the product that’s bought and sold. We believe there is a better way. We believe in audacity.

Oct 24, 2023 | waxy.org | Andy Baio

If you’re in the Portland, Oregon area, I’ll be at Powell’s Books at Cedar Hills this Thursday interviewing Matt Kirkland, the creator of the enormously popular Dracula Daily, which originally serialized Bram Stoker’s 1897 novel as a Substack newsletter, creating an internet-scale book club with over 240,000 subscribers, now published as a gorgeous hardcover volume annotated with memes, fan art, and comics from the community.

Oct 2, 2023 | waxy.org | Andy Baio

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