Feel Train Explained

Feel Train was a technology cooperative co-founded by Courtney Stanton and Darius Kazemi and based in Portland, Oregon. It closed at the end of 2019.[1]

Structure

Feel Train was a worker-owned cooperative. Stanton and Kazemi were its first two worker-owners, and the organization was chartered to allow a maximum of eight employees, each with equal salary, equal share in the company and equal firing power over others, including the founders.[2]

Projects

Feel Train projects included the Stay Woke Bot,[3] [4] a Twitter bot developed in collaboration with activists DeRay Mckesson and Samuel Sinyangwe,[5] and Shortcut, an app developed with radio program This American Life to facilitate sharing audio clips across social media, similar to the way gifs allow video clips to be shared.[6] Feel Train is also developing a Twitter bot based on the Obama Social Media Archive called Relive 44, which beginning in May 2017 will repost, eight years later, every tweet from President Barack Obama (whose first tweet came in May 2009.)[7]

External links

Feel Train website

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Kazemi. Darius. March 2, 2021. GOODBYE FEEL TRAIN. Feel Train.
  2. News: Velocci. Carli. The Creator of 'Ethical Ad Blocker' Is Trying to Build an Ethical Tech Business. 25 January 2017. Motherboard. Vice. October 7, 2015. en-us.
  3. News: Chiel. Ethan. Twitter Bot That Helps You "stay Woke" Is Building an Activist Infrastructure. 24 January 2017. Fusion. August 15, 2016. 2 February 2017. https://web.archive.org/web/20170202025938/http://fusion.net/story/336638/staywoke-bot-darius-kazemi-courtney-stanton/. dead.
  4. News: O'Connell. Ainsley. Stay Woke--With Help From A Bot. 24 January 2017. Fast Company. 4 August 2016.
  5. News: Dewey. Caitlin. The next frontier of online activism is 'woke' chatbots. 24 January 2017. The Washington Post. 11 August 2016.
  6. News: Shavin. Naomi. A New Tool From This American Life Will Make Audio as Sharable as Gifs. 24 January 2017. Smithsonian. October 11, 2016. en.
  7. News: Machkovech. Sam. Obama White House social media, Trump campaign receive expansive archives. 24 January 2017. Ars Technica. January 5, 2017. en-us.

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