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84 from 10 Aug 2008 to 11 Mar 2026
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2026 4

  1. Introducing: Code Canary
  2. Repurposing Claude Code for Better Spotify Recommendations
  3. 221 Cannon is Not For Sale
  4. SendGrid isn’t emailing you about ICE or BLM. It’s a phishing attack.

2025 2

  1. The Art and Science of Counting Pixels: Behind the Math of the game Figment
  2. Getting Caught on the Inside

2014 2

  1. Big Data Review in Emoji
  2. Proving Rancid filmed “Time Bomb” at Kickstarter’s Old HQ

2013 1

  1. Visualizing CitiBike Share Station Data

2012 3

  1. The Data Behind My Ideal Bookshelf
  2. Kickstarter Fulfillment and Product Development: A story of Dogfood and Data Validation
  3. Visualizing SOPA on Twitter

2011 3

  1. There’s No Such Thing as a Compulsory License for a Photo
  2. CrowdFlower NYU Event
  3. Sprint: A Portrait of a Dysfunctional Company

2010 9

  1. Hackers Party
  2. This is how I cope with 9/11
  3. Markov Chaining Kickstarter Blurbs
  4. Thoughts on Verizon and Google
  5. Duplicate Windows 7 Commercials Show Why Software Patents are a Bad Idea
  6. Cause Caller Thesis (PDF & LaTeX Source)
  7. Google Now Selling Virtual Ads on Real Real Estate
  8. Why do all Na’avi in Avatar have braids? Because code is law.
  9. Eustace Emoji

2009 23

  1. Teaching at ITP in the Spring Semester
  2. Moving on to Kickstarter
  3. Emoji Dick
  4. If you only watch one thing about 9/11 today …
  5. First day of class.
  6. Fighting iPhone App Store Stockholm Syndrome with Easter Eggs
  7. Copyright Commerce and Culture Blog Roll
  8. DeCSS and (My) Radicalization
  9. New Responsibilities @ CC & Teaching @ NYU
  10. Regarding Public Disclosure of Private Fact on Social Networks
  11. RT @mecredis RANT RANT
  12. Google is a sucker’s game that only serves the needs of a tiny elite
  13. Best Downfall Remix Ever.
  14. When Does Facebook Stop Being a Startup and Start Being A Government?
  15. The Staggering Hypocrisy of the MPAA
  16. RiP: A Remix Manifesto Screening with Me & Aram
  17. A Recent Creative Commons Presentation
  18. What would have Twitter looked like on 9/11?
  19. Things I’ve Been Caught Up With
  20. We Are One if You Are HBO
  21. A Spoon Full of Penis^H^H^H^H^H Audience Makes the Public Domain Go Down
  22. Progressive Music
  23. Information Overload, Facebook Fatigue, and Twitter’s Awesome Filter

2008 37

  1. The WSJ Gets it Wrong Again and/or The RIAA Lies Once Again
  2. The RIAA’s Loss
  3. The WSJ Showing Its Cards
  4. Soulja Boy Now Officially Sending Takedown Notices
  5. Google Street View’s Revealing Error
  6. Remixing Political Speech
  7. Sights and Sounds of Obama’s Victory
  8. Yes We Did.
  9. MTVM and the Battle of Participatory and Passive Media
  10. Every Music Video Ever From MTV
  11. Moving on from Copyleft
  12. FAIL Blog FAIL
  13. ‘A Shared Culture’
  14. The RIAA Has Already Implemented Collective Licensing
  15. Arts + Labs Astroturfing Content Filtering
  16. Foraging in Central Park with Steve “Wildman” Brill
  17. Amazon Recommendations
  18. A cow died on Wednesday in Queens
  19. I should have posted this yesterday
  20. The Modern Conscientiousness of Mad Men
  21. Just to be perfectly clear, Michel Gondry is not missing
  22. Crowd Sourcing Crowd Sourcing (or self-referential Human Intelligence Tasks)
  23. Free Culture @ NYU Moves On
  24. Spore losing the DRM Fight
  25. All is fair in love and war.
  26. Cause Caller and Robocalls
  27. Outsource Your Plagiarism with Amazon’s Mechanical Turk
  28. On SIEC, or Sudden Involuntary E-mail Cessation
  29. Upholding Open Source Licenses
  30. ChowHound Doesn’t Understand The Conversation That Is The Web
  31. Updates On Josh Harris and Facebook Censorship
  32. Pseudo YouTube
  33. Noneck, The Peoples Republic of China and Fair Use
  34. Picchu in Sapporo
  35. iSummit 2008
  36. Jeffrey Lewis is a Rip-Off Artist
  37. (First) Post.