Co-founder of Console.xyz. Adjunct Prof at Columbia University Business School.

   



137 Stories by Chris Castig

The Sound of Songwriting: with James Vincent McMorrow

The Sound of Songwriting: With James Vincent McMorrow (SXSW Edition)

James Vincent McMorrow’s debut album “Early in the Morning” was entirely self-recorded during a period...
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The Sound of Songwriting: With Sam Beam of the Iron & Wine

We tend to speak of our lives in generalities, while in our mind, when we sit alone and reflect on the past, we tend...
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The Sound of Songwriting: With Tim Kasher of Cursive and The Good Life

Much like a lyrical Woody Allen, Tim Kasher doesn’t hide behind his neurosis, he celebrates it. Mature enough to recognize his own self-limitations as...
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The Sound of Songwriting: With Courtney Taylor of the Dandy Warhols

“Songwriting? That’s something that I don’t really know how to do.” Courtney Taylor felt that I ought to know this before we even began...
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Expression Engine Should Be GNU (and Free?)

This isn’t the typical argument that Expression Engine should be GNU and “free” because it is too expensive, rather my argument focuses on the...
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The Urban Screens Conference

On December 4, the Institute of Network Culture organized the Urban Screens conference at Trouw in Amsterdam. The conference celebrated the launch of The...
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Siva Vaidhyanathan on Googlization

The term Googlization, according to Siva Vaidhyanathan, is the process of being processed, rendered, and represented by Google. Vaidhyanathan’s upcoming book The Googlization of...
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Tim Berners-Lee in Amsterdam: On the World Wide Web and Social Development in Africa

The World Wide Web and Social Development Symposium at the VU University Amsterdam welcomed a variety of prominent speakers to discuss the problem: How...
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Copy What Can’t Be Sold | Published Thesis for University of Amsterdam New Media MA

The final version of my MA Thesis is ready! Copy What Can’t Be Sold (and Sell What Can’t Be Copied): What Musicians Have Learned...
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The Silversun Pickups Interview | 2009

This interview was published on The University of Amsterdam’s New Media blog in 2009. It is part of a collection of interviews on how the Internet...
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