Hypertext as an Agent of Change

Thomas Pynchon. The Anthropocene. Ferguson. Geoheliocentrism. Teju Cole. Thomas Kuhn’s theory of paradigms. Antigone. A wall. The sixth extinction.

The ways we transmit information—and the ways in which that information accumulates into narratives—is changing. And if we aren’t careful, it may not change in all the ways we want it to.

Mandy Brown

Mandy Brown is a wordsmith. She takes other people’s words and hammers them into shape.

Mandy edited Frank Chimero’s The Shape Of Design. She has edited articles for A List Apart and books for A Book Apart (including the particularly handsome first book).

More recently, Mandy assembled a dream team to work on her startup Editorially, an online platform for collaborative writing and editing. That didn’t work out in the end, which is a shame because it was a lovely piece of work.

Before that, Mandy worked as product lead at Typekit, whipping their communications into shape.

She is one of the Studiomates crew in Brooklyn, where she lives with her husband, Keith and her dog, Jax. They’re both adorable.

Here’s Mandy speaking about How Things Change at the Beyond Tellerrand conference last year.

  1. Registration
  2. Warren Ellis
  3. Georgina Voss
  4. Break
  5. Clare Reddington
  6. Aaron Straup Cope
  7. Lunch
  8. Brian Suda
  9. Mandy Brown
  10. Anab Jain
  11. Break
  12. Tom Scott
  13. Cory Doctorow
  14. After-party