Monthly Archives: April 2013

Comedy Hack Day SF Recap Phase 14: Our Highlight Reel Is Complete

You thought we were done wrapping up Comedy Hack Day SF? You thought wrong! Craig has finished compiling highlights from our event at Twitter, and now we are proud to present the final installment of our CHD multimedia assault. Enjoy the highlights, and we’ll see you this fall in Boston.

The Best Worst Tweets Of The Boston Manhunt/Lockdown

We’ve been building a Storify tracking some of the great horribleness. [View the story “Worst Tweets Of The Boston Bombing Lockdown” on Storify] Worst Tweets Of The Boston Bombing Lockdown Tragedy often makes heroes of the least expected and supreme douchebags of others. Here is a sample of some of …

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Comedy Hack Day SF Recap: Validating Bullshit And Embracing Your Crack

It’s The First 31 Hours That Matter Most Every hackathon should begin with the organizing team locked out of its offices. That’s precisely what happened to the Cultivated Wit team at Code For America—the kind folks letting us post up for a week at their office—on Saturday morning. But after …

Brief Overview Of Comedy Hack Day SF (aka: Don’t Worry, More Is Coming)

Who would have thought a 34-hour-long event culminating in three-plus hours of a livestreamed show with more than 200 people attending and tweeting and posting photos would result in so much stuff to sift through? But trust us, that’s exactly what we’re doing. Since it’s just the three of us …

Comedy Hack Day SF: Whiskey Friday, Idea Pitches & Late Night Vineterviews

It’s about 3:30 am local time at Comedy Hack Day SF and we’re down to six people left awake, and one of those is the night-shift security guard. If you want to lump in Whiskey Friday—and who wouldn’t?—we’re more than 33 hours deep into the second-ever Comedy Hack Day weekend. …

The sex-making sounds of Code For America

This week the entire Cultivated Wit crew is in San Francisco preparing for our upcoming Comedy Hack Day. We’ve made a temporary corporate home at Code For America, which is a wonderful organization. They encourage innovation in government through technology. They also have a staircase which makes the sexy sounds …

Comedy Nerds, Tech Nerds, Nerd Nerds: Come Build Crazy Apps With Us This Weekend At Comedy Hack Day

Personalized jihads, Zipcar for dogs, yard sales for Internet business models, and a service that lets you shout at people with whom you disagree are among fake startups becoming real. Meanwhile, there’s a real video chat app that lets you have a “virtual one night stand,” whatever the hell that …

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