Hackers Party
If you’re here for the Hackers (the movie) party that I’m organizing, check @hackers_party for updates on venue location and ticket price Saturday night.
View ArticleThere’s No Such Thing as a Compulsory License for a Photo
My friend Andy has a terrific post up about his ordeal settling with the photographer Jay Maisel over the threat of a copyright lawsuit. Chances are if, you’re reading this, you know about that. If...
View ArticleVisualizing SOPA on Twitter
When I heard that Tyler Gray at Public Knowledge was looking for someone to do some analysis on tweets that mentioned SOPA, I thought I might try Cytoscape (an open source tool used for biomedical...
View ArticleBig Data Review in Emoji
I'm on the board of Rhizome.org, a great non-profit focused on technology and art. We do an event every year called Seven on Seven where we pair seven technologists with seven artists. Saturday was the...
View ArticleSprint: A Portrait of a Dysfunctional Company
I've been trying become a Sprint customer for almost a week. I want to order two 4G Motorola modems for a redundant Internet connection at work. I call the Sprint phone number to determine price,...
View ArticleCrowdFlower NYU Event
I did a panel on Crowdsourcing at SXSW this spring with Lukas, the CEO of CrowdFlower. Even if you made it to that, you should definitely know about this great event at NYU on April 13th: CrowdFlower...
View ArticleKickstarter Fulfillment and Product Development: A story of Dogfood and Data...
You could think of this post as telling the story of two Kickstarter projects. Since its a long post, here's a quick summary: I recently ran a Kickstarter project. I wanted to share all the financials...
View ArticleThe Data Behind My Ideal Bookshelf
Thessaly La Force, recently published a book with the artist Jane Mount called "My Ideal Bookshelf." In it, Thessaly interviews over 100 people and Jane paints their bookshelves: The books that we...
View ArticleVisualizing CitiBike Share Station Data
CitiBike Share launched yesterday. I finally got my fob activated, but since its raining, I haven't had a chance to take the bikes out for a spin, so I decided to take their data for a spin instead....
View ArticleProving Rancid filmed "Time Bomb" at Kickstarter's Old HQ
A month or so ago, Andy Baio was watching 120 Minutes and thought he recognized the wall moulding in Rancid's Time Bomb video: Watching old music videos, I just realized Rancid's Time Bomb was filmed...
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