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Walking Distance from Wired: Kevin Kelly Surveys the Tech Scene

Posted by timothy on from the congratulations-on-20-years dept.

Wired magazine has been around now for 20 years. Kevin Kelly decided to commemorate the magazine's immersion in tech culture, and in particular the thriving entrepreneurial scene located in Wired's own neighborhood of SoMa in San Francisco, with a photo essay documenting and celebrating some of the startups that are active in that neighborhood now (like Scribd, Reddit, and BitTorrent) noting that some of the companies are led by people who were just three when the magazine was founded.

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  1. I'll take... by gmhowell · · Score: 5, Funny

    Alex, I'll take "Stuff White People Like" for $400.

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    Jesus was all right but his disciples were thick and ordinary. -John Lennon
    1. Re:I'll take... by Darinbob · · Score: 1

      I think SoMa is funny too because all those companies are low tech, they focus on web sites and not actual technology or products. Back during dotcom era most of the San Francisco companies were about content, and after than it has turned into basically a place for social media.

  2. Re:Spend money, lose money, blah blah blah by show+me+altoids · · Score: 1

    I saw a few almost identical pictures along with a bunch of meaningless words. Meh.

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    I feel sorry for people that don't drink, because when they get up in the morning, that's as good as they're gonna feel
  3. And the winner is... by VortexCortex · · Score: 2

    Sounded like a cool idea, so I decided to make my own version of the story. But, the thing is, I Live in Houston, TX. My office is just outside the inner loop. I have to walk 2 miles to get to the closest grocery story. I once biked across the entire city, It took the better part of two days -- I had to get a motel room and sleep, and tried not to traverse the known "bad" parts of town alone in the dark...

    So it turns out here's my list of businesses within walking distance, i.e., the distance I would walk a Labrador before feeling bad about animal abuse:
    Starbucks
    Wells Fargo
    Taco Bell
    United Way
    Starbucks
    Shell (fuel station)
    Citibank
    Burger King
    Kroger (grocery store)
    Pizza Hut
    Texaco
    Starbucks.
    Super Cuts
    Coin-op Carwash
    Mobile (fuel station)
    Sonic (fast food)
    McDonalds
    Frost (bank)
    A Fire Station
    Starbucks
    Half Price Books
    Starbucks -- Which you can see from the other one.

    Well I ended up getting all my breathable vitamins for the day. Notably absent: A police station, or doctor's office...
    For my next trick I'll be listing the individual ingredients of prepackaged food wrappers as steep in a burned coffee bean bath and gorge myself.

    1. Re:And the winner is... by ArhcAngel · · Score: 1

      yeah, people from cities that were established long before the automobile have a hard time wrapping their heads around just how spread out Houston is. I "half" jokingly tell people that Galveston, San Antonio, and Dallas are all suburbs of Houston.

      This photo essay looks like they were all in the same basement except for the kitchen in Hattery.

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      "A person is smart. People are dumb, panicky dangerous animals and you know it." - K
    2. Re:And the winner is... by chromas · · Score: 2

      I think you missed the part about the pictures being taken at the companies' founding sites.

  4. Photos of geeks at their desks? by OhANameWhatName · · Score: 2

    When can we expect the calendar!!

  5. Alternate perspectives. by fahrbot-bot · · Score: 1

    "Everywhere is walking distance, if you have the time." - Steven Wright

    "No matter where you go, there you are." - Buckaroo Banzai

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    It must have been something you assimilated. . . .
  6. Wired... by DoctorBonzo · · Score: 1

    tired.

  7. After They Met Their 20-Year Younger Selves... by Hub_City · · Score: 1

    ...did they find they now walked with a limp?

  8. slashdot via wired 13years ago... by hedley · · Score: 1

    http://slashdot.org/story/00/03/26/116210/anti-dot-com-slogans-pepper-sf

    The bubble has formed obviously. A new crop of 20 somethings are at the helm, the prior 20 somethings flushed so that the new ones can stake 'first mover advantage'. With a bubble cycle of 10+ years, its essential to keep employing 20 somethings or the employees will have actual memory or working in the bubble economy. (not to mention a) most likely single b) low wages). But... its not a Ponzi scheme right? (if we could just get some more eyeballs)...

    Then I read the Grove in SF on Chestnut is folding under the crippling 20k/mo rent (50% rent increase). Somethings driving up prices... wonder what? ;)

    H.