The OneVille Project is a two-year Ford funded initiative out of the Harvard Graduate School of Education. Primary Investigator Mica Pollock founded the project to understand what communications are required between which of a student's supporters are required to support that student.

The Web Ecology Project was a research collective based in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Our agenda was to apply quantitative social science to social media.

We released our first report June 02009, The Iranian Election on Twitter: The First Eighteen Days. In this report we analysed over two million tweets collected in a 19 day window during the events of the Iran election and subsiquent protests. This report, and all subsiquent reports have been released under a Creative Commons license.

As a part of Web Ecology, I wrote software to collect and analyse data from various social networks. As the systems administrator, I managed a cluster of GNU/Linux servers running postgres and mysql databases numbering in the hundreds of millions. As part of the research team, I prepared qualitative analysis for published reports, and as business manager I produced research funding proposals, attended conferences, and pursued commercial contracts.

Further research has been released exploring influence in social networks and competition among group consensus in online platforms to media acclaim.

I started my involvement with the One Laptop per Child project in 2005, trying to get involved in organizing and manging Open Educational Resourcs. I saw the XO laptop as an obvious method for delivering edual content with a permissive license.

to be continued...

YawnLog is a social sleep tracker originally built over a 24.5 hour hackathon. The app was launched with a hyperbolic press release on Feb 22nd 02009 and a plan to a throw a party if/when we hit 100 users. We wokeup to 200, things got silly from there.

We started getting press and links the day of launch, a solid review from Killer Startups, an article in ReadWriteWeb, an episode of the Chris Pirillo show, and a mention by the New York Times.

Development of the Ruby on Rails site continues and the user base is well over 9000.

Public domain works are an important part of creativity and generativity on the internet and elsewhere. US government produced works are in the public domain, but not always easy to access. Taking initiative from projects like public.resource.org I took it upon myself to index, archive, and re-publish a 30,000+ image library from the CDC.

My version of the repository is a preliminary step. Next steps are a better full-text and metadata search function and to upload the images and metadata to Wikimedia Commons and Archive.org.

Librivox is a collection of audio books read by volunteers and released into the public domain. It was founded in August 02005 and I joined the group in January 02006. I am proud to have read, recorded and submitted a few audio books, mostly poetry and chapters.

I study and practice 15c. German longsword. There are a large collection of extant manuscripts from the 01300's until the modern day, describing the use of swords and other weapons as a Western Martial Art. I practice in the Liechtenauer tradition, but other schools exist, some of which I've dabbled in.

I was a part of an organization that performed educational demonstrations on medieval and renaissance martial arts, arms and armor. We performed at schools, libraries, and museums throughout the pacific northwest, notably the Seattle Art Museum's Spain in the Age of Exploration exhibit in 02004.

Stage combat and performance is a big part of demonstrations like this. I've had the opportunity to act and perform stage combat on a few occasions, one of which resulted in an imdb entry.