Jan 28, 2014Building the dreamOur product story (in development) — June, 2014 — Introducing Folio 1.0 January, 2014 — Dashboard walkthrough December, 2013 — Content Editor1 min read1 min read
Jan 28, 2014Medium, will you evolve into this? On education, self-apprenticeship and patronage — How did Mozart become a prodigy? What moved Steve Jobs to found Apple? How can college dropouts create multi-billion dollar companies today? I am intrigued, but all theories point to the same place: self-apprenticeship. Clear-cut apprenticeships, along with patronage, gave birth to some of the most creative minds in history…4 min read4 min read
Dec 6, 2013An idea called “Scrapbook”Enabling conversations around notes people take. On collaborative publishing and investigative journalism. — Most inventions, stories and ideas have something in common: they are inspired by something. In today’s digital age, we continuously get inspired by following blogs, reading Medium articles, looking at photography, browsing trending tweets and connecting with friends on Facebook. …3 min read3 min read
Nov 20, 2013Sell a Story, not a BrandThe Age of Emotional E-Commerce — Wouldn’t it be meaningful to plan and book a trip according to your favorite book? Wouldn’t you enjoy buying that classic jacket while watching your lifestyle-defining movie? What if brands became publishers and products were just the extension of a story? One of the reasons why journalism is endangered is…3 min read3 min read
Nov 13, 2013Is Social Influence Detrimental to High-quality Content?Any PhD Interested in This? Research Needed — Almost all social platforms put a big emphasis on the number of followers you have, the number of “likes” your posts accumulate and the number of times your content is shared by others. …2 min read2 min read
Nov 7, 2013Blogging and the 1-9-90 Rule Wordpress, Medium, Tumblr — They say content is king, but are today’s blogging platforms designed to improve the quality of content? Even if quality was not a priority, are they designed so that we can find content we are interested in? Let´s take a quick look at Wordpress, Tumblr and Medium. The 1-9-90 rule…4 min read4 min read
Oct 23, 2013From the Renaissance to the Future of BloggingWhere Humanism marries Science — Leonardo da Vinci epitomizes the innovation explosion from the Italian Renaissance. Considered to be a genius by many, he was a painter, sculptor, humanist, scientist, architect, philosopher, engineer, and more. …4 min read4 min read
Oct 3, 2013“Personal Brands” are Only Killing Lifestyle JournalismGapelian brainstorming sessions — A Crisis in Long-form Journalism Blogging as we know it has excelled at easily turning everybody into publishers. As a result, content quality has lowered and great stories get lost in continuous torrents of information. Breaking news, tweets and status updates are evidently insufficient to make us a more informed society. Authentic stories are life-changing…3 min read3 min read
