About Techdirt.
Started in 1997 by Floor64 founder Mike Masnick and then growing into a group blogging effort, the Techdirt blog uses a proven economic framework to analyze and offer insight into news stories about changes in government policy, technology and legal issues that affect companies ability to innovate and grow.
The dynamic and interactive community of Techdirt readers often comment on the addictive quality of the content on the site, a feeling supported by the blog’s ~800,000 RSS subscribers, 45,000+ posts, 600,000+ comments and a consistent Technorati Technology Top 100 rating. Both Business Week and Forbes have awarded Techdirt with Best of the Web thought leader awards.
You can also find Techdirt on Twitter and Facebook.
About Floor64
Floor64 has been generating insights and developing insight platforms for over 10 years -- and doing so in unique and innovative ways designed to help drive businesses forward, rather than keeping them tied to the past. We manage both Techdirt and also the exciting new marketplace for connecting companies with a diverse community of expertise, the Insight Community.
Floor64's offices are located in Sunnyvale, CA. Please see our Contact page, if you'd like to get in touch with us.
What’s under the hood?
Hosted at ActionWeb, we use PHP, Apache, and MySQL. In addition, we use some great icons from the fine folks at famfamfam and aquaticus, and, finally, jQuery makes us quite happy.
