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...
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Add-Art is a new Firefox extension which replaces online advertising with art. A new show is released every 2 weeks.
Our first show are Hiroshige prints selected by the Asian art curators at the Brooklyn Museum, here’s a sample:



If you like the project please show some support! Vote for us on Digg or Reddit, or consider volunteering to curate a show.
The code-inclined should check out the project page on dev.eyebeam.org and sign up for the mailing list. The team is really great and we’re looking forward to future development!
First Jack Nicholson txts in The Departed, then Delta drops the lolbomb.
Has netspeak gone mainstream?

Spotted on the Q train here in NYC a few weeks ago.
On flickr: this photo — add me 4 future lols.