Paul Ford Email & Phone Number

New York, NY, US

Wrote many things.

San Francisco, CA, US

I love writing for WIRED. I was a regular columnist for years then stepped back when I thought I was repeating myself.

After several years as CEO, growing Postlight into a 100-person leading digital strategy and services firm, I returned to my role as Co-founder to focus on new product efforts and to drive new initiatives around communicating climate change through data. Saw Postlight through acquisition by NTT Data on June 1, 2022.

I'm incredibly proud of what we've built at Postlight, working every day with my co-founder Richard Ziade, and with many other amazing and talented people. This is the software career I've always wanted. We've created a design-driven product studio that also has an impeccable engineering culture. We ship working products constantly. We work for very large.

I accidentally founded a network of thousands of people who enjoy using Unix to make web pages. More: https://medium.com/message/tilde-club-i-had-a-couple-drinks-and-woke-up-with-1-000-nerds-a8904f0a2ebf

Happily writing short web and print pieces for some excellent editors.

Serve on the advisory board for this remarkable web startup.

My work here has resulted in national radio coverage and press interviews; serialized narrative ("Gary Benchley, Rock Star") was bought by Penguin/Plume and published as well as optioned for screenplay. http://www.themorningnews.org/archives/paul_ford/

I'm a pretty well-established writer on culture and technology, although I'm writing less now that I've started a business. I'm the author of what must now be thousands of: magazine articles (Harper's, Elle, New York Times Magazine, New Republic, Businessweek, NPR, The Message on Medium, The Morning News), email newsletters, blog posts, tweets, etc., etc...

New York, NY, US

Instructor, Content Strategies, in MFA Interaction Design program. In this class we anatomize the secret artifacts of the information age, with an emphasis on the human effort that produced them. For example: What's inside a PowerPoint file? What are the pieces? Can we mine them, extract from them, or generate them? Who defines the standards that make up.

New York, NY, US

Very happily worked with this team on large, complex media strategies that are delivered not as PowerPoints but as live, working frameworks. Ongoing relationship.

A microconsulting web firm with partner Al Rotches, entirely focused on increasing conversions on the web.

Contributed.

Designed and built http://harpers.org, website with 250,000-page archive with tens of thousands of regular users. Java/XSLT. Kept costs to $0.07/per page, several orders of magnitude less than competing products from other publishers; as a result maintained profitability. Edited for the print magazine and for the web. Wrote and edited the Harper's Weekly.

A variety of taxonomy and overall strategy work with this pioneering content strategy firm.

Washington, DC, US

Frequently appeared on national radio program to an audience of 12,000,000 -- http://tinyurl.com/paul-ford-npr

New York, NY, US

Wrote and published novel "Gary Benchley, Rock Star," (Penguin/Plume), 2005.

Copywriting, information architecture, strategy, etc.

Sebastopol, CA, US

Contributed articles on XML, the Semantic Web, and various aspects of markup; see http://www.xml.com/pub/au/192

Minneapolis, MN, US

Codified the marketing language across feature sets and product lines using an innovative grid-based templating system.

Hamamatsu, Shizuoka, JP

Codified the marketing language across feature sets and product lines for Yamaha synthesizers. This was kind of a cool project--optimizing for translation and reproducibility across a vast range of products each of which was slightly different than the other.

All manner of work for an artificial intelligence research firm in Savyon, Israel.

Strategized brandishly.

New York, NY, US

Strategized seniorly.

Strategized.

Ba, English Literature

High School, High School/Secondary Diplomas And Certificates