Ken Jordan

Ken Jordan on Reality Sandwich

Digital advertisers track your online behavior, creating a detailed personal profile that is owned by the company that constructs it, which can do whatever it pleases with that information, including sell it. Emerging technologies could support a different model that respects our privacy, acknowledges our intelligence, and responds to actual needs, not manufactured desires.

E+SM: Month One
Ken Jordan

It's been a month since the launch of the Evolver Social Movement. How is it going?

Gone To Burning Man (Aug. 31-Sept. 7)
Ken Jordan

This week, the Reality Sandwich team has taken off for the annual Burning Man festival. We'll be back after Labor Day. In the meantime, we offer links to RS highlights from the past year.

Sell Ads for Reality Sandwich
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RS is looking for experienced ad sales reps to join our team of dedicated evolutionaries. Connect with great people while helping your favorite web magazine pay some bills

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New Language for The Evolver Social Movement

Ken Jordan 5-24-10

The Evolver Social Movement is entering a new phase. When we launched E+SM, Evolver and Reality Sandwich were in dire straights, teetering on the financial brink. Thanks in part to the first wave of E+SM memberships, our situation is no longer quite as dire, so we need to talk about it differently.

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Why We Need Evolver

Ken Jordan 3-10-10

For the paperback edition of his new book Life Inc., Douglas Rushkoff asked me to write a couple of pages about Evolver. Here's a draft of the text. It'd be great to get your comments, especially as we're trying to refine our language for describing Evolver for the launch of the Evolver Social Movement.

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A View from the Bridge

Ken Jordan 4-22-09

While it's only been a few weeks since we began the Evolver.net soft launch, there are already some usage trends which I thought it'd be good to share.

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Evolver Cracks Open The Front Door

Ken Jordan 2-27-09

Evolver is live - we began work on this site almost a year ago, laying the foundation for a platform where people can come together to share ideas and information, announce events, coordinate act

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Ken Jordan's Group Discussions

Evolver Card Thought Experiment

Posted in Building the Evolver Social Movement
Post Shamanic Panic - Were You There?

Posted in Evolver New York City
Creating a community currency in Baltimore

Posted in Evolver Baltimore
Tell Us What You Think

Posted in Beyond 2012: Practical Tools for Your Transformation

Bio: Ken Jordan is publisher and executive producer of the Evolver and Reality Sandwich. He has been an online pioneer since leading the 1995 launch of the award-winning SonicNet.com, the web's first multimedia music zine and digital music store, which later became a property of MTV. He has written for Wired, Index, and Paris Review, among other publications. He is co-author of the influential white paper "The Augmented Social Network: Building Identity and Trust into the Next-Generation Internet;" editor of Planetwork Journal; he collaborated with the legendary playwright and director Richard Foreman on Unbalancing Acts: Foundations for a Theater (Pantheon, 1992), and is co-editor of the anthology Multimedia: From Wagner to Virtual Reality
(W.W. Norton, 2001). He has written for Wired, Paris Review, Index, and First Monday, among other publications. He is co-editor of Toward 2012: Perspectives on the Next Age.

Skills and talents: I know a lot about how to architect, design and build websites; have done a good amount of writing and editorial work; spent years in the PR and marketing trenches; done my share of community organizing; worked quite a bit with foundations; am good at branding.