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This is a blog with occasional postings from John Borthwick.    I work in the technology, communications and media space — as an entrepreneur, a builder and an investor.    My interests are in building great companies — and in the process understanding about how media evolves as it collides with real time conversations.     This blog contains occasional thoughts, it is not a high frequency blog.    I like to write to organize my thinking on a particular issue.   This blog is often a repository for that thinking.   Thus the name and the sporadic attention.    My twitter or tumblr stream are more reflective of day to day thinking.

The companies I am working with are listed on the betaworks site.     Prior to launching betaworks I was CEO of Fotolog, and prior to that I was Snr. VP of Technology and Alliances at Time Warner.      I arrived at Time Warner — AOL — in early 1997 when they acquired the company I had started back in 1994.    The company was WP Studio, producer of three sites: Total New York (one of the first local city guides, now gone), äda ‘web and spanker (a pre blog, daily journal of the occasionally twisted mind of Carter Adamson).

I also sit on the board and/or act as an adviser to: Center for Independent Media, Coburn Ventures, Rhizome and HRW.

This web log is published on WordPress.

About

This is a blog with occasional postings from John Borthwick.    I work in the technology, communications and media space — as an entrepreneur, a builder and an investor.    My interests are in building great companies — and in the process understanding about how media evolves as it collides with real time conversations.     This blog contains occasional thoughts, it is not a high frequency blog.    I like to write to organize my thinking on a particular issue.   This blog is often a repository for that thinking.   Thus the name and the sporadic attention.    My twitter or tumblr stream are more reflective of day to day thinking.

The companies I am working with are listed on the betaworks site.     Prior to launching betaworks I was CEO of Fotolog, and prior to that I was Snr. VP of Technology and Alliances at Time Warner.      I arrived at Time Warner — AOL — in early 1997 when they acquired the company I had started back in 1994.    The company was WP Studio, producer of three sites: Total New York (one of the first local city guides, now gone), äda ‘web and spanker (a pre blog, daily journal of the occasionally twisted mind of Carter Adamson).

I also sit on the board and/or act as an adviser to: Center for Independent Media, Coburn Ventures, Rhizome and HRW.

This web log is published on WordPress.

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