Public Transit Adds Data Points

Here in DC, WMATA (Washington Metro Area Transit Authority) has started putting up signs at all its bus stops that have a unique stop number on them.
What this number symbolizes is a unique ID that riders and WMATA operators can use to point to an exact location and stop.
As you can see from the sign, [...]

Big, Interesting, Mysterious Pragmatic Problems

I’ve just finished a master’s program full of amazing classmates seeking policy solutions to some of the toughest problems the US and international institutions have to currently deal with.  For my part, I deeply love to spend a lot of my recreational thinking time searching for gaps in solutions to problems — entrepreneurial thinking — [...]

Mash-Up Culture is Still Young

A buddy of mine on IRC posted a YouTube video that mashes up (a phrase meaning to mix up different sources of music and video and other media into one product) drum n’ bass (dnb) music with footage from church sermons with people dancing and being overcome by religious experience and priests giving emotional sermons.  [...]

My Tech Policy Memo to President-Elect Obama

For my excellent “What’s Shaping the Internet?” class with Professor Michael Nelson, we had to write a 6-page memorandum to either President-Elect Obama, Google CEO Eric Schmidt, or some other organization head, using three main policy points.
I chose to advocate for an innovation commons, a push for open-source government interfaces, and a national identity system.
I [...]

Underground Warblogging

Warblogging died in 2006.  It died when the military and US government decided that ANY servicemember’s content online must be approved through the chain of command, AFTER informing the command that that content MAY exist. (i.e. registering one’s blog even without posting content to it)
The message coming out of Iraq was warped after this decision.  [...]

Sharing

A few weeks ago, there was an excellent article in the NYTimes about online ambient awareness.  This article was immediately influential — it was quoted and passed around by a lot of blogs and readers, and I got personal e-mails saying that it reminded them of my Galapag.us project.
An excerpt:
But as the days went by, [...]

Reputation Research

I made my research blog for Galapag.us, my project, public. So if you want to subscribe to the RSS feed, you can.
http://represearch.blogspot.com/

Yahoo! MSFS Fellowship blog

I wrote my first post to the Yahoo! MSFS Fellowship blog.  I’ll be studying privacy and openness across cultures and public spaces.

My Other Blog on Reputations

I have a private blog I’ve been writing to, relating to research for my personal project idea on open reputation management. I keep it private because my business is not incorporated and I don’t want ideas to go public.
But if you’re interested in reading it, e-mail me and I’ll add an account for you.
Sorry [...]