I'm a technologist & Internet culture 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.
Selected press:
NBC,
TIME [2],
NYTimes,
CurrentTV,
Gawker,
BuzzFeed
,
ArtNews
posts tagged 'hack'
The Red Hot Chili Peppers “Right on Time” (from Californication) with all of this stuff removed, and some other parts looped
Download MP3 (4.44MB)
I had a few issues with the new Facebook design, so I created a Firefox extension to make it more readable (and remove all the ads). See the before and after screenshots below.
» Click to install ‘Fix New Facebook’
(hassle-free!)
The extension is simply a compiled Greasemonkey userscript that adds a few CSS styles → fix-new-facebook.user.js
Update 08/15: code is now on GitHub
Been using the blogging service Tumblr lately: jamiew.tumblr.com
Very happy with the simplicity (and reblogging!) but disappointed by the lack of RSS for the dashboard!
Voilá a quick Ruby script to login to your Tumblr account, scrape the last 50 posts or so, and output as RSS.
usage:
I’m avoiding setting this up as service; just wanted to put the code out there.
Got a shiny new iPhone and frustrated by how difficult Apple makes it to put high-res photos, PDFs, and other files on it? Download Filemark Maker, a tiny app that makes it easy to generate bookmarks with the data stored inside (known as DataURLs).
Drop a file on the app, bookmark the generated link, sync with your iPhone, and enjoy offline files, like subway maps and eBooks.
Hacked together at Jelly this week in conjunction with Josh and Dave from Insanely Great Tees (which are, in fact, pretty insanely great)
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