Today I completed a redesign of Cybercultural, including a new navigation structure and other changes related to an upgrade in my publishing system, Eleventy. I've upgraded from Eleventy version 2 to the latest 3.0 beta version, which required significant changes to my code. There’s also a bunch of new content on...

I think Sean was more excited to meet Fred Wilson than I was. As a wannabe VC, he was in awe of Fred and had tried (unsuccessfully) to interview him for the ReadWriteTalk podcast. I certainly knew about Fred and subscribed to his blog in Google Reader, but it felt like we lived in different neighborhoods of the...

Team RWW at the Mobile Summit: Frederic, Chris, me, Marshall, Sean; photo via Chris Cameron. The ReadWriteWeb Mobile Summit was held on Friday, May 7, once more at the beautiful Computer History Museum in Mountain View. I would be giving the keynote presentation for the event and had built a presentation around five...

As internet culture continued to go mainstream over 2010, sometimes we at ReadWriteWeb got caught in the crosshairs. In February, our website was hilariously mistaken for the Facebook login page by thousands of people. We’d published a post entitled “Facebook Wants to Be Your One True Login.” It was a news analysis...

A grainy iPhone photo I took of the bass player from Band of Skulls, when they played at Beauty Bar during SXSW Music 2010. The Ai Weiwei event was a big deal for RWW; we thought it could potentially bring us to the attention of thousands of influential people across the media and technology industries. Maybe we’d...

I didn’t know much about the Paley Center for Media before I entered its impressive white stone building on Fifty-Second Street. But I knew it was about as “old media” as it could get in New York City — and I mean that in a good way. Formerly the Museum of Television and Radio, it was a cultural institution, but...

Oprah's first tweet, April 2009. The internet in 2009 was all about the real-time web and the mainstreaming of social media, mostly on Facebook and Twitter. In addition, smartphone apps became prolific — especially with the release of the iPhone 3GS (the “S” stood for Speed) and an avalanche of new Android models,...

Trey Ratcliff, Richard MacManus, Elyssa Pallai, and Sean Ammirati at The Oasis in Austin, TX. Photo by John Pozadzides. For the first time, in March 2010, I was headed to Austin for South by Southwest (SXSW), the popular internet conference I’d heard so much about. Eight of us from RWW were attending SXSW: myself...

The two Tims at Web 2.0 Summit 2009: Berners-Lee and O'Reilly; photo via O'Reilly Conferences. After running our debut event, the ReadWrite Real-Time Web Summit, in Mountain View that October of 2009, my next port of call was the Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco. I was keen to meet up with Sean Ammirati, at that...

The iPhone 3G and G1 (first Android device); October 2008. The internet in 2008 was defined by the emergence of smartphone apps, with the Apple App Store launched in July (along with a second-generation iPhone) and the Android Market following in September. But equally, there was a lot of innovation in web browsers...

Team RWW visiting Facebook HQ in October 2009; from left to right: Marshall Kirkpatrick, Jolie O'Dell, Dana Oshiro, Bernard Lunn, me. The day after the ReadWrite Real-Time Web Summit, a Friday, the RWW team met up at the Red Rock café in Mountain View to work and debrief. I also took the opportunity to have...

Me at ReadWriteWeb's first in-person event. It was the morning of October 15, 2009, and I was at the Hotel Avante in Mountain View, California, for the unconference. I was nervous and apprehensive about how the day would go — this was RWW’s first event, and the team had put in a huge amount of work. In truth, I...