Hiatus
Apologies for the interruption in posting regularly. It’s the end of the semester and I can’t speak for Gaurav and Pav but I’ve had a lot of on-going semester-long projects. The Mumbai attacks hit...
View ArticleIdentities and Censorship
Pseudonymity One excellent point brought up during our breakfast presentation in the CCT lounge (their journal, Gnovis, posted a write-up of it by Margarita Rayzberg) was that one coping mechanism for...
View ArticleMy 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...
View ArticleOn Negative Identity
Over on my reputation research blog, I wrote a post that applies to our Yahoo! work too. It’s on the concept of “negative identity”: perhaps social identity formation consists of an element of...
View ArticleFacebook Privacy Stats Discussion
My friend Kevin Donovan sent me a link (thanks Kevin) to this post (by Fred Stutzman) criticizing a NYTimes article (by Randall Stross) about how Facebook is affecting privacy boundaries for different...
View ArticleBig, 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...
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Opening Up Galapag.us for Alpha
My thesis project for NYU-ITP has been Galapag.us, a tribe and ecosystem for promoting the idea that we should be radically open and transparent with our data so that we can form and share metrics to...
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The Only Person Not Paying Attention is You
The Snowden leak has been immensely disappointing all around. It makes me sick to my stomach to read different constituencies circling their wagons on it. The outcome is almost certainly already...
View ArticleSocial Networks are Boring
A common refrain. People will complain that Facebook, or Twitter, or whatever, is boring. What’s usually going on is their friends are boring, they’ve reached mental exhaustion, they try to use social...
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Introducing Cryptstagram
[This is the long version of a post I wrote for The Barbarian Group's tumblr. We also got written up in Wired's design blog, Laughing Squid, and PSFK, my first time getting such large coverage!]...
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