Feel Train
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.{{Cite web|last=Kazemi|first=Darius|date=March 2, 2021|title=GOODBYE FEEL TRAIN|url=https://feeltrain.com/|website=Feel Train}}
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.{{cite news|last1=Velocci|first1=Carli|title=The Creator of 'Ethical Ad Blocker' Is Trying to Build an Ethical Tech Business|url=https://www.vice.com/en/article/the-creator-of-ethical-ad-blocker-is-trying-to-build-an-ethical-tech-business/|access-date=25 January 2017|work=Motherboard|publisher=Vice|date=October 7, 2015|language=en-us}}
Projects
Feel Train projects included the Stay Woke Bot,{{cite news|last1=Chiel|first1=Ethan|title=Twitter Bot That Helps You "stay Woke" Is Building an Activist Infrastructure|url=http://fusion.net/story/336638/staywoke-bot-darius-kazemi-courtney-stanton/|accessdate=24 January 2017|work=Fusion|date=August 15, 2016|archive-date=2 February 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170202025938/http://fusion.net/story/336638/staywoke-bot-darius-kazemi-courtney-stanton/|url-status=dead}}{{cite news|last1=O'Connell|first1=Ainsley|title=Stay Woke--With Help From A Bot|url=https://www.fastcompany.com/3061995/mind-and-machine/stay-woke-with-help-from-a-bot|accessdate=24 January 2017|work=Fast Company|date=4 August 2016}} a Twitter bot developed in collaboration with activists DeRay Mckesson and Samuel Sinyangwe,{{cite news|last1=Dewey|first1=Caitlin|title=The next frontier of online activism is 'woke' chatbots|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-intersect/wp/2016/08/11/the-next-frontier-of-online-activism-is-woke-chatbots/|accessdate=24 January 2017|newspaper=The Washington Post|date=11 August 2016}} 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.{{cite news|last1=Shavin|first1=Naomi|title=A New Tool From This American Life Will Make Audio as Sharable as Gifs|url=http://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/new-tool-american-life-will-make-audio-sharable-gifs-180960729/|accessdate=24 January 2017|work=Smithsonian|date=October 11, 2016|language=en}} 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.){{cite news|last1=Machkovech|first1=Sam|title=Obama White House social media, Trump campaign receive expansive archives|url=https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2017/01/trumps-campaign-obamas-social-media-force-both-memorialized-in-online-archives/|accessdate=24 January 2017|work=Ars Technica|date=January 5, 2017|language=en-us}}
References
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External links
[http://feeltrain.com/ Feel Train website]
Category:Information technology companies of the United States