Baratunde Thurston

Oral History: Sex! Drugs! Apps! SXSW Interactive At 20

Twenty years of wild parties, legendary product launches, and heated controversies.

F*ck You Congress! This Website Lets You Vent Your Government Shutdown Frustrations

From the folks at Cultivated Wit comes a website to vent your frustrations at the ineptitudes of Congress.

Why Comedy Hack Day Makes Sense For The People Of Greater Boston

Something funny is happening at MIT Media Lab this Sunday.

How To #Unplug In 6 Steps

Still feeling intimidated about disconnecting from your digital life? Lighten up! And click through this interactive display.

#Unplug: Baratunde Thurston Left The Internet For 25 Days, And You Should, Too

I have left the Internet. I’m on vacation. That means no social media updates, responses, check-ins, likes, taps, pokes, noogies, tickles, or head locks. I’m going to practice looking people in the eye and not checking my email or . . .

Generation Flux Salon: How Do You Manage Colleagues–Above You, Below You, And Peers–Who Are Less Open To Change?

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.

4 Storified Reasons SXSW Was Worth The Hassle From Al Gore, Sean Parker, Baratunde Thurston

How SXSW attendees used Storify to capture the festival’s most-talked about events in real-time

What To Do And See At SXSW, For The Gamer To The Style Buff

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.

This Is Generation Flux: Meet The Pioneers Of The New (And Chaotic) Frontier Of Business

The future of business is pure chaos. Here’s how you can survive–and perhaps even thrive.

Generation Flux: Baratunde Thurston

A look at 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.

The 10 Most Creative People On Twitter

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.

The Onion’s Baratunde Thurston Shares His Most Creative Photos

Can Science Possibly Be Cool?