In Reading and Revolution in Media Sniping, I consider whether media sniping (jamming) can be subversively read:

. . . Graffiti, sniping, and guerrilla marketing are now all …

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Ever wonder where the term RTFM came from? An excerpt from a paper on Socialization in Open Technical Communities:

One of the oldest open communities …

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I tend to keep most of my files on encrypted partitions. Fortunately, this is easy to do now that the crypto loop devices are integrated …

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Siobhán O’Mahony and Fabrizio Ferraro have written an excellent paper on evolution of the Debian project. In Beyond Majority Rule Sheeran notes that the …

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A draft of my paper on how newcomers are socialized into open technical communities is now available. Before I could consider the “socialization features” I …

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In the Sound Factory episode of MTV’s True Life a Long Island bartender wanted to become a Manhattan bartender as his first step towards …

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A recent CNN article the entitled “Norwegian hacker cracks iTunes code” tells the the story of Jon Johansen’s latest effort, QTFairUse:

The new program …

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Tim Bray notes much discussion about taxonomies for organizing one’s blog entries, akin to those categories you see on the left of this blog …

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Peter Van Dijck has composed an interesting summary of the themes that arise in debates about the Semantic Web, including the recent discussion of Shirky …

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Today I attended two interesting media policy talks. The first was by Sarah Deutsch of Verizon discussing the legal cases against them for (rightfully) withholding …

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