I'm a technologist & Internet researcher studying the spread of information and ideas online. I co-created the Know Your Meme video series & Internet meme database, selected as one of TIME Magazine's Top 50 websites of 2009. I'm also a founding member of the Free Art & Technology Lab (FAT), an open-source research & development group.
In 2007 and 2008 I taught the Internet Famous Class at Parsons, where your grade depends on your online popularity. More...
Selected press:
NBC,
TIME [2],
NYTimes,
CurrentTV,
Gawker,
BuzzFeed
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ArtNews
Google is collecting a lot of data about how we use the web. The new Google Alarm Firefox addon visually & audibly alerts you whenever your personal information is being sent to Google servers. Click for more info…
Can you provide the version of FF on which it is expected to work.
On OpenBSD 4.7+FF 3.5.8 it just refuses to install, but impossible to know why…
— LIAR · Aug 3, 10:53 AM · #
No, I don’t need a personal loan to by a car. I have enough money in my bank account. Furthermore, you’re an asshat, credit loans.
— kitteh · Aug 4, 06:41 PM · #
lolwut @kitteh
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— Jamie Dubs · Aug 4, 06:54 PM · #
Isn’t this a bit like putting an alarm on your barn door to notify you every time a horse is stolen? I’d rather have a lock.
— a · Aug 5, 07:51 AM · #
Can you make a Facebook alarm? With the proliferation of the Facebook like button and Facebook connect, they receive as much as google does and its more personally identifiable as its tied back to your Facebook persona.
— Mark Nelson · Aug 17, 05:55 PM · #