This afternoon, I went with Austen to a coworking session called Jelly. Jelly is basically a time, once a month, when two freelance web designer and programmer roommates open up their NYC apartment for other freelancers to come in and do work. This type of activity, called “coworking”, was written about by a disgusting, wretched excuse for a newspaper The New York Post. I found out about it from a student of my dad’s who knows Amit Gupta, one of the guys who runs it.
Jelly was pretty awesome. It takes place in an apartment right near Bryant Park, which had a living room complete with sofas, comfy chairs, a TV with a stereo, and a Wii. Most of the people there were freelance web designers and programmers, and I got to meet some. One, Luke Crawford, is an interface developer at a company called Joyent, which makes a platform for small teams of people to collaborate through documents, email, etc. (similar to Microsoft’s Office Live and Google’s Apps). Another guy, Anthony Volodkin, is the creator of a site called The Hype Machine, which aggregates information about songs and artists from music blogs around the Web, and allows users to talk about them, rate them, and listen to them online. I also met Oscar, a very nice dog who just happens to bark very loudly at Austen when he swings the Wii controller around very wildly.
Overall, I had a blast at Jelly, and hope to come back sometime next month or whenever their next session is.
Aaron Freedman is a 16 year old who's very passionate and knowledgeable about technology and journalism. He enjoys working on his two main projects, 
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