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 …

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, …

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.

So I’m back from a wonderful couple of days of hanging out with the Kickstarter team near the beach. I managed to rent a surfboard and catch a couple of …

Apparently my alma-mater (and current part-time employer) ITP is suggesting current students look at my thesis because of its formatting.
I used LaTeX to format it and used the ACM …

You could say that I’m partial to Lessig‘s maxim that “code is law.”
I also think it goes a long way to explaining some decisions James Cameron made while making …

The New Yorker is holding its annual contest for re-interpretations of the famous Eustace Tilley cover and I thought this would be a good one.
Unfortunately since I live with Thessaly …

I just launched a project on Kickstarter (an awesome NYC based startup that helps people fund their ideas) to translate Moby Dick into Emoji using Amazon Mechanical Turk. I’m calling …

Obviously, this is written by someone with a deep understanding of copyright and the Internet: Brad Templeton, chairman of the board of the EFF. Congrats Brad, this video beats the …

Apologies for neglecting this blog for a bit. I’m have got lots of drafts saved so some more posts are on their way.
I wanted to announce that in conjunction with …