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It manufactures, among other things, small rocket-launched satellites for private, military and government use.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We needed a remote area with some facilities and an attitude of, ‘Do what you want, as long as it’s safe.’ Here we can work 24 hours a day. Nobody cares if you’re up in the middle of the night testing things,” says Milliron. “So it’s a freedom to try anything.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Anything\" includes much more than those small, softball-size satellites.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is a reach out into the solar system for human flight,\" Milliron says, adding the company hopes to participate in future lunar missions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On a recent afternoon in the company’s rambling warehouse space, three Interorbital technicians tinker on the body of an ocean-launched rocket used to deliver satellites into space.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The company employs a full-time staff of around six people, most in their mid-to-late 20s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They are people who’ve usually worked in the standard aerospace industry, and they are tired of designing a bolt for their entire lives,” says Milliron. “They want to do something that’s more exciting, and they want to have hands-on experience with launch vehicles.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After being laid off from a NASA job in Alabama, Nathan Chew moved to California to take a job with \u003ca href=\"http://www.xcor.com/\" target=\"_blank\">XCOR Aerospace\u003c/a>, another up-and-coming Mojave firm.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chew also helps run the \u003ca href=\"http://mojavemakers.wordpress.com/\">Mojave Makers Space\u003c/a>, a kind of after-hours lab for spaceport engineers who want to burn off a little creative steam and tinker on their own projects.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10374205\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/mojave-makers.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/mojave-makers-800x547.jpg\" alt=\"Nathan Chew, left, and Brandon Larson outside the Mojave Makers Space workshop. 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He’s worked for a couple of space tech companies in Mojave.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Right now he’s tutoring science and engineering classes at the local high school and trying to scratch up investment cash for a research project involving cement that can be used on the surface of Mars.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Larson says the SpaceShipTwo crash is a sobering reminder of the risks involved in doing this kind of work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When they’re test-flying new aircraft, crashes occur and test pilots unfortunately die -- it's part of the business,” says Larson. “But we learn what we can from it and move it. 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Today, \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/blogs/alltechconsidered/2014/11/04/359829824/dominos-becomes-a-tech-company-that-happens-to-make-pizza\">as even Domino’s Pizza shows\u003c/a>, every company must become a tech company if it wants to control its fate with customers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bell says:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>“We lacked the institutional will or insight to move swiftly enough in the right directions and we were held back in transformation by large, legacy organizations and the revenues that came with them. And doing journalism is a hard, resource hungry business.”\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>The software developer and “father of blogging,” Dave Winer, \u003ca href=\"http://scripting.com/2014/11/24/howToRebuildJournalism.html\">puts a finer point on it\u003c/a>:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>“Journalism stood by while blogging took root. They covered it, but largely dismissed it. 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And as the “Innovator’s Dilemma” has highlighted, it’s exceedingly difficult for businesses to turn away from their main source of revenue \u003cem>right now \u003c/em>to consider the revenue they’ll need five or 10 years from now.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Here’s The Danger\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Social media platforms now edit and shape culture, even though they feel kind of allergic to having that responsibility. “Every time an algorithm is tweaked, an editorial decision is being made,” Bell writes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>“As news organisations cease to print physical newspapers, as linear television struggles to survive the buffeting of on-demand services, as services become not just digital first but digital only, journalism and free expression become part of a commercial sphere where the activities of news and journalism are marginal. … Their culture is as alien to reporting and editing as ours is to designing social software.”\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Algorithms and protocols that run social platforms affect discourse, and the engineers behind those protocols don’t have to think about journalism or democratic responsibility in how news is created and disseminated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A prime example of this is the first nights of the protests in Ferguson, Missouri. 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Journalism let tech move in and take over.”\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>As Bell \u003ca href=\"https://civic.mit.edu/blog/erhardt/the-newsroom-inside-out-at-the-mit-knight-civic-media-conference\">has chatted with me about\u003c/a> before, it’s very hard to run an innovation “lab” inside a “factory” which is turning out news every day. And as the “Innovator’s Dilemma” has highlighted, it’s exceedingly difficult for businesses to turn away from their main source of revenue \u003cem>right now \u003c/em>to consider the revenue they’ll need five or 10 years from now.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Here’s The Danger\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Social media platforms now edit and shape culture, even though they feel kind of allergic to having that responsibility. “Every time an algorithm is tweaked, an editorial decision is being made,” Bell writes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>“As news organisations cease to print physical newspapers, as linear television struggles to survive the buffeting of on-demand services, as services become not just digital first but digital only, journalism and free expression become part of a commercial sphere where the activities of news and journalism are marginal. … Their culture is as alien to reporting and editing as ours is to designing social software.”\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Algorithms and protocols that run social platforms affect discourse, and the engineers behind those protocols don’t have to think about journalism or democratic responsibility in how news is created and disseminated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A prime example of this is the first nights of the protests in Ferguson, Missouri. 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The only way to be less reliant is to make more of their own technology — specifically, building tools and services that “put software in the service of journalism rather than the other way around,” she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Journalists and editors should learn to make technology, “learn programmatic thinking” and understand the world they operate in, Bell says. She argues that to preserve journalism’s traditional role, “We must stop relying solely on the tools and platforms of others and build our own.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Winer, who wrote a response to Bell, adds that the open source tools out there are often ignored, but can be adopted and tooled for news purposes. “We have enough open formats and protocols to build a dozen news distribution systems with all kinds of algorithms,” Winer says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bell adds that large news organizations (like NPR) that \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/about/products/npr-one/\">already make technology\u003c/a> should extend these types of technologies as part of their core mission.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Finally, she says we ought to be better reporters. Technology is a system of power in it of itself. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, Wednesday 10:30 a.m.:\u003c/strong> The other shoe hasn't fallen yet in Uber's ReporterGate. Emil Michael, the senior vice president who suggested spying on and discrediting journalists critical of the company still apparently has his job. But the company is being strafed with a string of reports on its culture and alleged privacy violations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003cem>Los Angeles Times\u003c/em> reviews the latest stories here: \u003ca href=\"http://www.latimes.com/business/technology/la-fi-tn-uber-controversy-20141119-story.html\">Uber -- as drivers get perks, riders lose patience with privacy snafus\u003c/a>. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003cem>LAT\u003c/em> list includes \u003ca href=\"http://www.businessinsider.com/uber-employee-competencies-fierceness-and-super-pumpedness-2014-11\" target=\"_blank\">a must-read item from \u003cem>Business Insider\u003c/em>\u003c/a> on the qualities the company most values in employees. In addition to standard checklist items like \"vision\" and \"innovation\" -- aren't we all visionary innovators now? -- Uber wants to see \"fierceness\" and \"super-pumpedness\" in its workers. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Original post (Tuesday, Nov. 19):\u003c/strong> Uber CEO Travis Kalanick is trying to get ahead of the avalanche of criticism roaring down on the ride-service company -- by issuing a 14-tweet explanation/manifesto/apology about a fellow Uber exec's musings about playing dirty tricks on journalists.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here's a taste of Kalanick's Twitter epic:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/travisk/status/534790695157248000\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More from the Uber CEO later. But first, how did we get here?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kalanick's, and Uber's, crisis was sparked by \u003ca href=\"http://www.buzzfeed.com/bensmith/uber-executive-suggests-digging-up-dirt-on-journalists\" target=\"_blank\">BuzzFeed's account\u003c/a> of a dinner the company sponsored for \"an influential New York crowd\" last Friday night. Kalanick was in attendance, as was a senior vice president named Emil Michael. Here's BuzzFeed's account of Michael's remarks:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>[H]e outlined the notion of spending “a million dollars” to hire four top opposition researchers and four journalists. That team could, he said, help Uber fight back against the press — they’d look into “your personal lives, your families,” and give the media a taste of its own medicine.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Michael was particularly focused on one journalist, Sarah Lacy, the editor of the Silicon Valley website PandoDaily, a sometimes combative voice inside the industry. Lacy recently accused Uber of “sexism and misogyny.” She wrote that she was deleting her Uber app after BuzzFeed News reported that Uber appeared to be working with a French escort service. “I don’t know how many more signals we need that the company simply doesn’t respect us or prioritize our safety,” she wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the dinner, Michael expressed outrage at Lacy’s column and said that women are far more likely to get assaulted by taxi drivers than Uber drivers. He said that he thought Lacy should be held “personally responsible” for any woman who followed her lead in deleting Uber and was then sexually assaulted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then he returned to the opposition research plan. Uber’s dirt-diggers, Michael said, could expose Lacy. They could, in particular, prove a particular and very specific claim about her personal life.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Michael at no point suggested that Uber has actually hired opposition researchers, or that it plans to. He cast it as something that would make sense, that the company would be justified in doing.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>When someone suggested that carrying out such a plan might create problems for Uber, BuzzFeed reported, Michael said, \"Nobody would know it was us.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The BuzzFeed report prompted a scathing response from \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/sarahcuda\" target=\"_blank\">Lacy\u003c/a> on PandoDaily: \"\u003ca href=\"http://pando.com/2014/11/17/the-moment-i-learned-just-how-far-uber-will-go-to-silence-journalists-and-attack-women/\" target=\"_blank\">The moment I learned just how far Uber will go to silence journalists and attack women.\u003c/a>\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And Tuesday on KQED's \u003cem>Forum\u003c/em>, Lacy said she attributed Michael's remarks to a company culture she says is essentially hostile to women.\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\"... You know, there was a really disturbing [advertising] campaign that was put out in Uber France office that was essentially treating female drivers like prostitutes. And it was incredibly disturbing. Everyone was bothered by that. BuzzFeed wrote about it. When I saw it, yeah, I saw the culmination of two-year company’s culture growing from something that was cute and fratty and funny when it launched to something that is quite disturbing that remains unchecked in the company. And as a woman I simply didn’t feel safe getting in the cars. Again, no on was fired for that. And when you’re sending a message out to drivers and riders, and you’re frankly sending it to corporate executives, that treating a woman like a prostitute is funny, it’s really scary.\"\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" src=\"https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/tracks/177544871&color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lacy also said that Michael's remarks made her fear for her family's safety. \"It’s been a crazy 24 hours of changing a lot of the security in my house, a lot of the security protocols around my kids,\" Lacy said. \"As you know, I’ve been covering Silicon Valley for a very long time, writing critical things about lots of powerful people, and this is an extreme one, even for me.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The BuzzFeed story and Lacy's response touched off a flurry of official Uber responses cast more as explanations than apologies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The remarks attributed to me at a private dinner -- borne out of frustration during an informal debate over what I feel is sensationalistic media coverage of the company I am proud to work for -- do not reflect my actual views and have no relation to the company’s views or approach,\" Michael said in a statement released by the company. \"They were wrong no matter the circumstance and I regret them.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Company spokeswoman Nairi Hourdajian added: \"We have not, do not and will not investigate journalists. Those remarks have no basis in the reality of our approach.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Michael, in \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/emilmichael/status/534579297449955329\" target=\"_blank\">a Twitter conversation with critics\u003c/a> Tuesday night, \u003cem>did\u003c/em> offer an apology to Lacy:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/emilmichael/status/534580244095959040\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And that, finally, leads us back to Kalanick's \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/travisk/status/534789412094496768\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter War&Peace\u003c/a>. The CEO starts out by calling Michael's comments \"terrible,\" says the company needs to do a better job showing that it's \"principled and means well,\" and ends with an apology to Lacy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One thing Kalanick doesn't say is whether Michael will keep his job. And here's why you might wonder about that. The company is universally celebrated in the annals of entrepreneurship for its $18 billion market valuation, its rapid inroads into markets worldwide and its seeming determination to sidestep or steamroll opposition wherever it's encountered. But now the company, its attitude and Kalanick's leadership are under all-out media siege, to judge from a few headlines. To wit:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>New York Times Bits blog:\u003c/strong> \u003ca href=\"http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/11/18/emil-michael-of-uber-proposes-digging-into-journalists-private-lives/?_r=0\" target=\"_blank\">Uber Executive's Comments Leave Company Scrambling\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Slate:\u003c/strong> \u003ca href=\"http://www.slate.com/blogs/moneybox/2014/11/18/uber_comments_on_digging_up_dirt_on_journalists_when_funding_makes_a_tech.html\" target=\"_blank\">Uber Keeps Acting Like It's Invincible. 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That team could, he said, help Uber fight back against the press — they’d look into “your personal lives, your families,” and give the media a taste of its own medicine.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Michael was particularly focused on one journalist, Sarah Lacy, the editor of the Silicon Valley website PandoDaily, a sometimes combative voice inside the industry. Lacy recently accused Uber of “sexism and misogyny.” She wrote that she was deleting her Uber app after BuzzFeed News reported that Uber appeared to be working with a French escort service. “I don’t know how many more signals we need that the company simply doesn’t respect us or prioritize our safety,” she wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the dinner, Michael expressed outrage at Lacy’s column and said that women are far more likely to get assaulted by taxi drivers than Uber drivers. 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You know, there was a really disturbing [advertising] campaign that was put out in Uber France office that was essentially treating female drivers like prostitutes. And it was incredibly disturbing. Everyone was bothered by that. BuzzFeed wrote about it. When I saw it, yeah, I saw the culmination of two-year company’s culture growing from something that was cute and fratty and funny when it launched to something that is quite disturbing that remains unchecked in the company. And as a woman I simply didn’t feel safe getting in the cars. Again, no on was fired for that. 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Honda was hopeful but noncommittal at his campaign party, saying his team is better and stronger for facing a fierce challenge from Khanna.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We touched base,” he said, “with our party and our friends. We made new friends. We created a larger family, and this larger family will be intact for in the future.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s one way of putting it. The two candidates spent more than $7.3 million, landing the 17th Congressional District on the map for political pundits across the country, and on Open Secret’s list of \u003ca href=\"http://www.opensecrets.org/overview/topraces.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Most Expensive Congressional Races\u003c/a> in the United States.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The race pit a seven-term Democratic incumbent against another Democrat in the newly drawn 17th Congressional District. It includes cities like Sunnyvale, Mountain View and Cupertino. It’s home to major Silicon Valley firms like Apple, Intel, Yahoo and eBay. Khanna argued Silicon Valley needed a stronger advocate for its interests in Washington, D.C.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Internal polls showed the 38-year-old Khanna gaining in the final weeks of the campaign. He was certainly closer than his finish in the June primary, 20 points behind 73-year-old Honda. In an email to supporters, Khanna wrote, “When we started this campaign nearly two years ago, I was polling at just three percent. Now, they’re still counting the ballots. It’s that close.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re sending a clear message that the honor of representing Silicon Valley is not an entitlement — it’s something that needs to be earned.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Analysts say he’s proved that point, but add that Khanna picked a tough target. Honda has spent 14 years cultivating his ties with the community, one that includes more than tech companies and the people who work for them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Honda’s election-night party was held at \u003ca href=\"http://www.zahirs.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Zahir’s Bistro\u003c/a> in Milpitas. Why this restaurant? Owner Zahir Quddus says he’s been a supporter since Honda first ran for Congress. “The way he present himself. The way he talk about people. He meant it real exactly what he say.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over in Santa Clara, the party for Khanna was boisterous, fueled by high spirits and an open bar. Groups of teenagers broke out into spontaneous dancing. One told me she could imagine Khanna running for president one day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both campaigns were packed with young idealists. As fierce as this fight was, political science Professor \u003cspan class=\"st\">Karthick Ramakrishnan of UC Riverside sees an upside: more political involvement by young people – and by Silicon Valley’s Indian community. Ramakrishnan can’t put numbers to it now, but he’ll know for sure in a few months, after parsing the voting rolls.\u003cbr>\n\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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