• CUSP: the history of eating

    The fine folks at CUSP not only let me ramble on stage but also produced this fantastic video of my…

  • the f*cked up part about GoDaddy and SOPA

    Like many of you, I’ve been somewhat closely following SOPA (as well as its companion PROTECT IP Act, aka PIPA) and the…

  • a new adventure

    For more than a decade I’ve been in the non-profit / public sector, working on a variety of issues –…

  • transition

    At the end of May I’ll be leaving MCIC to work fulltime on Food Genius, a mobile app start-up that links…

  • join me at Urban Geek Drinks

    Urban Geek Drinks (UGD) is an informal gathering of people interested in technology and urban issues. There is no agenda…

  • unsolicited advice for gov data app and viz builders

    I spend a good deal of time exploring apps and data visualizations that use government data. Unfortunately, most of that…

  • interview

    Last spring, Geoff Hing interviewed me as part of his coursework at Northwestern (he’s in the coolest Master’s program). Before…

  • work music

    I’ve become a huge fan of Rdio.com (pronounced arrr-dio). Just about anything I want to listen to is nearly always…

  • geekfest video: open gov data

    I had the privilege to join my colleagues Paul Baker of Webitects, Harper Reed, and Dan O’Neil of EveryBlock for…

  • new article: Why is the Internet so slow?

    The great folks over at the Community Media Workshop asked me to write the below introduction to Net Neutrality and…