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raptrajson How a Tech Non-Profit Became the Hottest Ticket in Silicon Valley

The formula is:

1. Take a hard, tough-nut-to-crack problem, like making education not suck.

2. Take something that's traditionally been behing high-priced walled gardens (ie universities) and offer it online for cheap or free.

3. Put an extremely intelligent, visionary man at the head of it all.

This isn't Pandora for cats. This is making quality education more widely available and making the process to do so transparent and honest. Bravo, Khan.

raptrajson Twitter suffers sustained outage in hacker attack

...its most dedicated users...had nowhere to complain about the interruption.

Amusing, but poignant: We go to Twitter when something is down or an earthquake happens, but where do we go when Twitter itself is down?