{"id":1794,"date":"2013-08-26T09:58:39","date_gmt":"2013-08-26T14:58:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/redmonk.com\/dberkholz\/?p=1794"},"modified":"2013-08-10T19:12:16","modified_gmt":"2013-08-11T00:12:16","slug":"entrepreneurial-technologists-as-another-creative-class","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/dberkholz\/2013\/08\/26\/entrepreneurial-technologists-as-another-creative-class\/","title":{"rendered":"Entrepreneurial technologists as another creative class"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I recently tripped across another\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/siliconflorist.com\/2013\/08\/07\/years-silicon-florist-poorly-written-blog-ridiculously-long-headlines-spawns-awesome-pie-techfestnw-oregon-story-board\/\">great post<\/a>\u00a0by Rick Turoczy (author of Silicon Florist) that really resonated with me, and I couldn&#8217;t resist quoting it here:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>His hypothesis was that startups and the entrepreneurial technologist who founded them were another creative class; a group of people who chose to express themselves with apps and code instead of pictures and words.<\/p>\n<p>And the company for whom he worked\u2014a Portland-based communications firm called\u00a0<a title=\"Wieden+Kennedy\" href=\"http:\/\/wk.com\/\">Wieden+Kennedy<\/a>\u2014wanted to help. They wanted to foster that next generation of creatives in town. Because they were changing the way stories were told. Because W+K wanted to be part of that.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Developers as creatives \u2014 that&#8217;s an important thought. One that companies like Adobe should definitely be considering, as they think about how code-based products fit into a creative lineup including things like Photoshop and InDesign.<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #888888;\"><strong>Disclosure<\/strong>: Adobe is a client.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<div class=\"acc_license\"><a href=\"http:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-sa\/3.0\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i.creativecommons.org\/l\/by-sa\/3.0\/88x31.png\" alt=\"by-sa\" \/><\/a><\/div><!--<rdf:RDF xmlns=\"http:\/\/creativecommons.org\/ns#\" xmlns:dc=\"http:\/\/purl.org\/dc\/elements\/1.1\/\" xmlns:rdf=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/1999\/02\/22-rdf-syntax-ns#\"><Work rdf:about=\"\"><license rdf:resource=\"http:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-sa\/3.0\/\" \/><\/Work><License rdf:about=\"http:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-sa\/3.0\/\"><requires rdf:resource=\"http:\/\/creativecommons.org\/ns#Attribution\" \/><permits rdf:resource=\"http:\/\/creativecommons.org\/ns#Reproduction\" \/><permits rdf:resource=\"http:\/\/creativecommons.org\/ns#Distribution\" \/><permits rdf:resource=\"http:\/\/creativecommons.org\/ns#DerivativeWorks\" \/><requires rdf:resource=\"http:\/\/creativecommons.org\/ns#ShareAlike\" \/><requires rdf:resource=\"http:\/\/creativecommons.org\/ns#Notice\" \/><\/License><\/rdf:RDF>-->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I recently tripped across another\u00a0great post\u00a0by Rick Turoczy (author of Silicon Florist) that really resonated with me, and I couldn&#8217;t resist quoting it here: His hypothesis was that startups and the entrepreneurial technologist who founded them were another creative class; a group of people who chose to express themselves with apps and code instead of<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[31,32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1794","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-creatives","category-design"],"acf":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p23Tsn-sW","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/dberkholz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1794","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/dberkholz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/dberkholz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/dberkholz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/dberkholz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1794"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/dberkholz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1794\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/dberkholz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1794"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/dberkholz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1794"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/dberkholz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1794"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}