Stay ConnectedThe Webby Podcast is a weekly program celebrating the people and phenomena that make the Internet awesome. Hosted by Webby Awards CEO David-Michel Davies, the show features conversations with Internet innovators and experts, tips from The Webbys team, and more.
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Kulap Vilaysack & SuChin Pak join to talk about how shopping habits have changed from the early days of the pandemic to now, how our shopping habits reflect our relationship to money, our upbringing and more. We even touched what’s in our personal carts: for Kulap, it’s an e-bike, while SuChin has carts across multiple countries.
Check out their new podcast with Lemonada Media, Add To Cart here!: http://smarturl.it/addtocart
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Megan Smith, part of one of the most important teams in Silicon Valley in the late 1980s: General Magic and also the former Chief Technology Officer to the United States under President Obama joins us to talk about her role as the country’s CTO looked like, from pushing for tech policy to bringing technologists around the world into the U.S. government to solve important civic issues using tech, like foster care for example.
We also talked a lot about her new organization Shift7, that helps find innovators of all kinds to fix global issues. They work with initiatives like the UN Solution Summit and help gather people who are already doing the work around an issue, and help accelerate them.
Our Producer is Taylor Griffin
Our Editorial Lead is Jordana Jarrett
Our Editor is Terence Brosnan
Music is Podington Bear
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Our second Overwrite event featured David Rogier, CEO & Co-founder of Masterclass, and Wendy Kopp, CEO & Co-Founder, Teach For All, and tackle the lessons we have learned about how we learn in these unprecedented times. And then we have a special bonus conversation with Josie Jeffies, Design Director at Slack!
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Misinformation. Conspiracy theories. “Lulz.” meme-ified racism and QAnon theories. Professor of Communications and Rhetorical Studies at Syracuse University, Whitney Phillips is with us to talk about how early alarms on trolling language were ignored, to how we need to reconstruct how our sites and networks are built to stop incentivizing the spread of misinformation.
Check out Whitney’s new book You Are Here: A Field GUide for Navigating Polluted Information.
Our Producer is Taylor Griffin
Our Editorial Lead is Jordana Jarrett
Our Editor is Terence Brosnan
Music is Podington Bear
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Jalen Rose is with us to talk about basketball in the age of social media, being an early podcaster and the moments surrounding the killing of Breonna Taylor.
Check out his new podcast, Renaissance Man!
Our Producer is Taylor Griffin
Our Editorial Lead is Jordana Jarrett
Our Editor is Terence Brosnan
Music is Podington Bear
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Listen as we kick off the first of our five-part Overwrite event series, Overwrite: How We Advocate - a discussion on advocacy in the quarantine era with Rashad Robinson (President, Color of Change) and Shaniqua McClendon (Political Director, Crooked Media).
Keep up with David-Michel @dmdlikes
Our Producer is Taylor Griffin
Our Editorial Lead is Jordana Jarrett
Our Editor is Terence Brosnan
Music is Podington Bear
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In early January Avi Schiffman, a high school student in Washington, was inspired to build a website to track a disease rapidly moving through China. He launched nCoV2019.live before the novel coronavirus had an official name, and long before elected officials took it seriously. 2020 Webby Person of the Year Avi Schiffmann joins host David-Michel Davies to talk about creating a vital resource as a teenager, and the international pressure he’s faced to keep the numbers accurate.
Keep up with David-Michel @dmdlikes
Our Producer is Taylor Griffin
Our Editorial Lead is Jordana Jarrett
Music is Podington Bear
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Closing out Season 6 is a very special episode with Sinéad Burke, host of "As Me, with Sinéad." At The Webbys, we spend a lot of time looking at the Internet, and determining what we want it to be. Sinéad is someone actively doing the work to create the Internet we want.
On her show, she interviews notable guests about what it’s like to be them, how they navigate life in their bodies, and how this can help everyone better understand what its like out there for other people. She and host David-Michel Davies discuss what kickstarted her passion for accessibility advocacy, her famous TED Talk "Why Design Should Include Everyone," and more.
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Early Web pioneer and Glitch CEO Anil Dash has been a strong voice championing the core values of the Web since practically as long as it has existed. Along the way, he was an early executive at Movable Type, an adviser to the Obama Whitehouse’s Office of Digital Strategy, and adviser to companies like Medium and Donor’s Choose.
Today Anil is the CEO of Glitch, a company that makes it easy to make apps, bots, art and all sorts of digital experiences, all within the Web browser, alongside a community of millions of other supportive creators.
We talk a lot about how the sites and platforms of today could be more inclusive, more ethical and more humane, and of course about Glitch and the joy of watching people make things for the Web.. and if you know Anil, you know we also had to talk about Prince, and his Webby 5 Word Speech, Everything you think, is true. As a real Prince nerd, he helps us fill in some of the gaps of what Prince meant with those five words
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If you remember those amazing Bloomberg BusinessWeek covers from back in the day or seen design in the New York Times that made you pause, chances are it was designed by Tracy Ma.
Our next guest is one of the most impactful graphic designers out there today, and is currently a Designer for The New York Times Styles Desk. Tracy Ma's incredible aesthetic combined with the global scale of the Times means her work not only informs but defines a lot of the visual world we live in today.
Keep up with David-Michel @dmdlikes
Our Producer is Terence Brosnan
Our Editorial Lead is Jordana Jarrett
Music is Podington Bear
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