Thu, 2015-07-16 08:26
Sam Whitmore
Dylan Tweney: Indie Content Pro
Friday is Dylan Tweney's last day as a full-timer at VentureBeat. Though he'll remain as a columnist and podcaster, it's now on to the next phase of his career, as an independent content strategist working for tech startups and larger companies. You can reach him here.
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"OMG, I'm a millennial," 
Prepare to submit your B2B contributed content to TechBeacon, a new platform designed to guide ambitious IT pros and line-of-business technologists. A placeholder site is live today; a soft-launch is due Apr. 15. Areas of focus: agile, big data, cloud, devops, mobile, performance, security, software quality and startups. Paying the bills for this site is HP, which promises to give TechBeacon full independence.
Staff writer Issie Lapowsky carries a big load at Wired; she typically writes more than once a day and when a big Facebook or Google story breaks, it's often Issie who has to chase it. That said, she's always on the hunt for constructive stories to tell. Her work often gravitates to doing-well-by-doing-good stories. She also writes quite about education, as she did at Inc.
Even before the Apple Watch arrives, "design" has come to dominate the hive mind. (The latest evidence: this week's 16,628-word New Yorker profile of Apple chief designer Jony Ive.) Wearables, car tech and IoT -- three of today's top tech trends -- all owe themselves to design. Smart VC firms are hiring designers-in-residence. Yet editorially, the rise of design is easy to miss. 
“Fusion is the most ambitious experiment happening in media right now, and I just wanted to be a part of it." -- Kevin Roose as quoted in Re/code, Oct. 31, 2014
As curator of the 
