Best Practices for App Developers at Sea...

Every company and organization involved in the digital economy is, in one way or another, in the business of building trust with users. While there are big challenges associated with managing and securing the vast amounts of data being generated in our increasingly connected world, there are also huge opportunities for innovation if done properly. I’ll be speaking on two panels at...

Come to the Vibrant Data PDX Hackathon! ...

Imagine a world in which data becomes a personal asset that works on behalf of our personal interests and communities. Everyday, apps like yours could control how to send their data out into the world to circulate and bring back value to users. Certainly this would require a change in the way the world views data today, and in the infrastructure that enables it to flow freely while...

I’ll be Keynoting SXSW 2012 in Aus...

I’m excited to announce that I was offered a keynote speech at this year’s SXSW conference in Austin, Texas! I’ll be doing an extended version of a talk on cyborg anthropology and the future of the interface, and will then go into what we’ve been doing at Geoloqi, and some major partnership announcements. If you’re interested in the future of humans and...

Come to Random Hacks of Kindness! Portla...

What is Random Hacks of Kindness? Random Hacks of Kindness is a simultaneous global hackathon which addresses issues of disaster and humanitarian response. Local subject matter experts are brought in to guide the developers in relevant issues and to further the use of developed tools after the event. Registration Deadline: Wednesday, November 30, 2011 Register Here to Attend!...

Geoloqi Open Data Hackathon at Upstart L...

Come hack on open gov datasets and Geoloqi! We moved into an new office space! We’re sharing it with Upstart Labs, a great new company from the founders of StepChange group (recently acquired by Dachis Group). We’ll have food and drinks, and plenty of interesting things to discuss and work on. The new office has two war rooms for planning and plenty of space for hacking...

Posting to Geographies and Subscribing t...

Topics and Interests, Geographical Publishing, and Subscriptions I like Twitter, but not all of it. I like what people post on Twitter, but not all of it. I’d like to be able to filter out parts of what people talk about. I don’t want to read posts about politics, for instance, or sports, babies and what people ate for lunch. Other people might love these parts of a...

Smallest Federated Wiki workshop with Wa...

About Interested in working with Ward Cunningham on his new wiki project? You can on Thursday, October 13th, 2011 at the Portland Incubator Experiment. Wiki-founder Ward Cunningham shared his idea of a Smallest Federated Wiki SFW during IndieWebCamp this June. In a few short weeks, he brought his idea to life and is inviting others to work with him on it. This is the second...

Thoughts on News, Connectivity and the D...

I have a different view on the idea of the technological singularity. I don’t believe that a Singularity will suddenly happen all at once, but that there are increasing singularities. Instead of one Singularity, singularities come in brief bursts, uniting the majority of a connected group across social and topical boundaries for a brief moment. Defining a Singularity A singularity...

A Short Interview with Tiffany Shlain on...

I recently had the opportunity to interview Webby Awards co-founder Tiffany Shlain on her new award-winning feature documentary “Connected: An Autoblogography about Love, Death & Technology”. She discussed a number of interesting things, which I recorded. The interview is posted below in audio form. The audio was recorded from Skype, so I apologize for the quality of the...

This Week: Guest Posting for Wired Magaz...

Greetings! I’m taking a break from my usual blogging routine (and by routine I mean a post every month or so) to write a post every day this week for Wired Magazine’s Change Accelerators blog. It’s a practice round leading up to the release of A Dictionary of Cyborg Anthropology. Let me know if you like the posts and I hope you enjoy tuning in! Several have already...