> barb dybwad, principal
Live Mind Consulting
Today she works on AI and tech strategy for publishers, with a specialty in SEO (and now GEO) and affiliate revenue.
One of the first professional tech bloggers, Barb Dybwad has built editorial teams and managed digital strategy for The Property Brothers, AOL, Digital Trends, Penske Media Corporation, Mashable, Future PLC, and Best Buy, among others. She has launched and led national events for the consumer tech site Engadget from the Official CES Awards to the 10,000-attendee Expand franchise in SF and NY.
Barb has worked with:
- AOL
- Mashable
- Engadget
- Future PLC
- Best Buy
- Digital Trends
- Penske
She doggedly maintains an old-school blog at Doctor Paradox, creates AI experiments, and stays active in political discourse.
Barb enjoys tinkering and building on the web with a raft of AI tools including ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, Gemini, Midjourney, Ideogram, Leonardo AI, Kling, RunwayML, Seedance, Veo 3, Sora 2, Descript, Opus Clip, and seemingly more by the day, plus mind maps and PKM, open data, Python, Zettelkasten, and mobile photography. She has been known to make noise from time to time. She lives in Boston (after long stints in Ithaca & Los Angeles), lived on planes before COVID, and used to live more on Twitter (which is still Twitter) than she does now.
Portfolio and Projects
Highlights
- List Post: A new high-volume structured content production automation system
- Core Mental Models for Thinkers and Mental Models, Unabridged
- January 6 Coup Interactive Mind Map (Kumu)
- Common Psychological Biases, Logical Fallacies, and Cognitive Distortions (Google Sheets + Ninja Tables)
- Corporate Welfare Timeline (Timeline.js)
- Russian Hybrid Warfare Dictionary & Bestiary: Terminology and Cast of Characters for the new Cold War (Google Sheets API + Python)
- Ukraine-Russia Conflict Resources (Kumu)
- A Field Guide to Identifying Bots on Twitter (Python + NLP + Twitter API)