Three weeks ago, I submitted my Master’s thesis, packed everything I own into storage, and got on a plane for Seattle, where I’m spending the summer as an intern at Fuse Labs, part of Microsoft Research. I’m deeply excited to be here, where I have a chance to continue to […]
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How can we make planning more open and inclusive? Inspired by a cat poster, SeattleMonkeys asks community residents to call a number to share their ideas on local affairs and transportation. This summer, I’m in Seattle as an intern for Microsoft research FUSE Labs with Andrés Monroy-Hernández (whose work on […]
I’m here at CHI 2013, a human computer interaction conference, for the third and final keynote, the sociologist of science and anthropologist Bruno Latour, on the topic, “From aggregation to navigation, a few challenges to social theory.” photo by @pstamara Latour starts by explaining what he calls “the monadological […]
At the Center for Civic Media, we do a lot of quantitative media analysis, trying to answer questions of public value by finding patterns across millions of articles, tweets, and TV captions. As a former student of poetry, I’m often aware of how much we miss. Today, a dear friend […]
Last November, I proposed that we redesign acknowledgment on the web to be more like a party and less like a duty. Promising to redesign my personal portfolio, I also promised to define an architecture that enables us to thank anyone anywhere, even in parts of the web which make […]