An Oregon native, Goldstein received his master’s degree at NYU’s Interactive Telecommunications Program, where Clay Shirky is a prof. While in New York, Goldstein hosted an online radio show and taught 100 Bronx teens how to videoblog. He also discovered he has a knack for “getting ideas out of other peoples’ heads and onto paper,” as he puts it.

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Notes from 140 Characters Conference

Notes from 140 Characters Conference

When he’s not doing the visual note-taking thing, Goldstein works with companies to create short animated videos that explain the clients’ products or services. We thought his “Og the Caveman” cartoon made a rock-solid case for why we are all publishers:

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