• Hits: the oil of the 21st century
• The internetfamo.us Scrapeotron is measuring the attention economy: views, comments, favorites… and seeing how you stack up
• Internet Famous Class @ Parsons grad school is a class in which students grades are algorithmically determined by their famo score
• Press
  • Time.com: "Googling For Your Grade" (also on the frontpage of cnn.com),
  • NBC, Feb. 19th 2008
  • Gawker: "Celebrity-industrial Complex: Art School's Julia Allison Training Program", Feb. 28th, 2008
  • BuzzFeed, Dec. 19th 2007
  • my bookmarks tagged 'press'

Always be prepared.

Methodologies, rationale, how-to and future plans @ Hard Drive Bombs page

Swiss-army music server built with open-source tools. “Your personal music backup service.”

• musicblackhole.com
• radiation-radio: listen now!

Radio Chives Hi-availability radio station archival; just punch in a schedule.
Assists the Blackhole in consuming all music ever.

• powering: archives for WNYU Radio 89.1FM

Research notes

• Hacking DAAP (iTunes Music Sharing)
• Hacking Zune Music Sharing

Time travelling software
for Jamie O'Shea's 3:2 project.
Jan. 1st - Jan. 21st 2007

• jtunnel – software for firewall penetration, anonymous connectivity, and exotic packet routing
• Cyberdissidence Manifesto – treatise for off-road telecom, for use by activists and others concerned about security and privacy.
• How to Disappear Completely and Never Be Found (2007)

ATM Traffic Analysis
tracking publicly available data about your
personal finances by hoarding ATM receipts

Hacking Obopay
how to reverse engineer & automate a web form using only simple curl commands. (AKA how I made 6bucksforfree.com, R.I.P)

Homebrew DVR
An exploration of open-source media center software and torrentcasting.
AKA, how to watch Lost without paying (much) money.

Metawiki
documentation & evaluations of wiki softwares,
including MediaWiki, Junebug, DekiWiki, DokuWiki, et al

Collusive P2P Downloading
research in optimizing/hacking BitTorrent peer-to-peer downloads by using collusion instead of the default tit-for-tat strategy.

Dubnet
the all-volunteer “botnet” powering many of the above projects

Natalie Jeremijenko's How Stuff is Made project, a wiki-based visual encyclopedia of the manufacturing process.

I've contributed:

• Biodiesel
• Insulin

• txp plugins – for the Textpattern content management system (PHP)
• Rails plugins – for Ruby on Rails
• Radiant extensions – bonus features for next-gen Ruby on Rails content management system

Personal documentation that might be useful to others

• Terse subversion tutorial

• Setting up OpenLDAP
• Administering subversion

• Bootstrapping a FreeBSD6 system
• Bootstrapping an Ubuntu Linux 7.1 "Feisty Fawn" system

• Boostrapping a Ruby on Rails stack

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