Projects
- Regulation Room
- Littlesis.org
- Digress.it
- Institute for the Future of the Book
- New York Public Library – Candide 2.0
- McKenzie Wark – Gamer Theory
- Iraq Study Group Report
- World Resources Institute – TheCityFix
- KnowHow2Go
- Holy of Holies
- MediaCommons
- CommentPress
- openDemocracy
- The Unidentified
- Lisa Vershbow
- Akaza Research
- SocialMonkey
- Quince
- E-guana (Isovera)
- Wikipedia, New York
- Smar.te.st
- The Future of Learning Institutions
- GreenPress
- JISC
- Atmosphere BBDO
- Duder
Regulation Room
As the Lead Technologist, I developed Regulation Room, an experimental public rulemaking participation platform by Cornell University’s e-Rulemaking Initiative. Regulation Room uses Digress.it technology to expand the types of public input available to agencies in ...
Littlesis.org
Littlesis, a project funded by Sunlight Foundation, is a nonprofit nonpartisan research organization focused on government and corporate transparency and accountability. We track the relationships of individuals and powerful institutions with the purpose of exposing ...
Digress.it
I founded Digress.it – an online community and open-source WordPress plugin – popular with universities, literary groups, governments and legal scholars. Digress.it is a WordPress plugin that offers paragraph-level commenting in the margins of a ...
Institute for the Future of the Book
The Institute for the Future of the Book is a think tank funded by the MacArthur Foundation and affiliated with the University of Southern California. I joined a small group of multidisciplinary researchers investigating the ...
New York Public Library – Candide 2.0
Candide 2.0 is an experiment in public reading and communal annotation launched in conjunction with the New York Public Library’s exhibition Candide at 250: Scandal and Success. Using the library’s existing color scheme, I developed ...
McKenzie Wark – Gamer Theory
The Institute for the Future of the Book created this project to investigate new approaches to writing in the networked environment, and to see what happens when authors and readers are brought into conversation over an evolving text. ...
Iraq Study Group Report
Lewis Lapham, editor emeritus of Harper’s Magazine, approached the Institute for the Future of the Book to help him and his colleagues launch the web component of this new journal, called Lapham’s Quarterly. We conceived ...
World Resources Institute – TheCityFix
TheCityFix.com is an online resource for sustainable transport news, research and “best practice” solutions from around the world. Launched in 2007, the site connects a global network of writers and transport specialists, including engineers, entrepreneurs, urban planners ...
KnowHow2Go
The American Council on Education, Lumina Foundation for Education and the Ad Council launched the KnowHow2GO campaign in January 2007. This multiyear, multimedia effort includes television, radio and outdoor public service advertisements (PSAs) that encourage ...
On Social Power
Power is a corrupting force. And politics – a process in which power is acquired – is no exception. So when I see power being amassed, even for good, I wince. To me, politics should ...
Is Our Insurance Model Immoral?
I am part of the problem: being self-employed, I haven’t had health insurance in years – opting to spend my money on other things of more consequence: like paying down my school debt, traveling and ...
Well-managed Dismemberment
The American auto industry epitomizes many of the issues I have with large institutions– they are wasteful and unresponsive, but worst of all, we depend on them. Few things are as unsettling as forced dependence. ...
The Alternate Universe Algorithm
“What if you could travel to parallel worlds: the same year, the same earth, only different dimensions…?” That’s the opening line to one of my favorite science fiction shows in the 90s called “Sliders.” The ...
PBS: Top Secret America
The Washington Post’s recent report, Top Secret America, on the burgeoning secret government is being covered by PBS’s FRONTLINE: FRONTLINE reveals 9/11′s unprecedented yet largely invisible legacy: the creation of a vast maze of clandestine ...
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