When life gives you trolls, laugh at 'em. Baratunde Thurston, author of [i]How to Be Black [/i]and former director of digital for [i]The Onion[/i], deals with Internet haters by being as absurd as humanly possible.
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One of the key qualities of Generation Fluxers is their ability to successfully and swiftly adapt to change--but it's not uncommon for Fluxers to work with colleagues who are not as good at dealing with chaos. Brad Smith, Nilofer Merchant, Robbin Phillips, Ari Wallach, Baratunde Thurston, Doreen Lorenzo, Sarah Robb O’Hagan and readers discuss as our salon series continues.
Baratunde Thurston produced and hosted a 36-hour hackathon where participants from both the comedy and tech communities worked together to create some future funny business.
Internet trolls just aren't worth the energy. "How To Be Black" author Baratunde Thurston spills on how he deals with haters--which may or may not involve making out.
"Local Man Writes Humorous Headlines": The Onion's former director of digital talks about how its team of whip-smart comedians generates great ideas week after week.
Don't know how to wade through the hundreds of music, film, and interactive events at the hipster's smorgasbord in Austin? Don't worry, we did it for you.
Meet Baratunde Thurston, the Director of Digital at "The Onion," a Harvard philosophy major turned consultant turned standup comedian and author of "How to Be Black." Flux to the core.
For the third year in a row we have put together a list of the 100 Most Creative People in Business. This year had the most Twitter users yet, with 36. Here's our Top Ten tweeters of 2011's MCP.
