Tag Archives: Boston

Why Comedy Hack Day Makes Sense For The People Of Boston (And Cambridge And Somerville And Maybe Medford)

We all know technology is changing nearly everything. It has affected food delivery, personal navigation, and the rhetoric of our mayoral candidates. I’ve been a tech junkie all my life, and a lot of that passion developed in the 12 years I lived in the Boston area (1995-2007). This is …

What creative digital comedy startup is working with the MIT Media Lab? THIS one!

O hai, this is Baratunde writing things BTW. “Hey. We’re doing this thing in Detroit. You should come.” At 8:35pm on July 30th of last year, that message popped up in my Google Chat window. The “We” was the MIT Media Lab. The “thing” was a weekend of applied brainstorming …