MediaBugs is filling out its roster.
I’m super pleased to announce that Mark Follman is joining the project as associate director and community manager. Mark, who I had the pleasure of working with for many years at Salon, has strong experience both in the journalism trenches and also in the relatively novel field of online conversation management.
I was delighted, and humbled, by both the number and the quality of applicants for this post. I know there are a lot of journalists looking for gigs today, but MediaBugs is a pretty unconventional opportunity. Thanks to everyone who threw a hat into the ring. I hope you’ll all continue to keep up with what we’re working on here, and I apologize that I couldn’t interview every single one of you!
We’ve also chosen our technical design and development partner. Until recently the name Ben Brown was familiar to me chiefly because I’d long ago read entertainingly caustic rants by him (and reread them during my research for Say Everything). I knew that Brown had a long and storied career on the Web; but I didn’t realize, until our adviser Lane Becker pointed me in his direction, that he’s also an ace developer. His company XOXCO has done some great projects, most recently NeighborGoods, and we’re very excited to be working with him to transform MediaBugs from an idea into a smoothly working, intuitive site.
More soon as we pick up speed…
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