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Bill Drayton and J Nathan Matias [Flickr]

Joi — Sat, 05 May 2012 05:36:04 PDT

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Joi — Sat, 05 May 2012 05:35:32 PDT

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A week of a student's electrodermal activity

Joi — Mon, 30 Apr 2012 04:09:46 PDT

Obviously, this is just one student and doesn't necessarily generalize, but I love that the electrodermal activity is nearly flatlined during classes. ;-) (Note that the activity is higher during...

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A week of student electrodermal activity [Flickr]

Joi — Sun, 29 Apr 2012 20:37:54 PDT

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From : Poh, M.Z., Swenson, N.C., Picard, R.W., "A Wearable Sensor for Unobtrusive, Long-term Assessment of Electrodermal Activity," IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering, vol.57, no.5, pp.1243-1252, May 2010. doi: 10.1109/TBME.2009.2038487

Google Jockeys with our headsets [Flickr]

Joi — Wed, 25 Apr 2012 08:29:32 PDT

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Joi — Wed, 25 Apr 2012 08:29:15 PDT

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Reading the dictionary

Joi — Tue, 10 Apr 2012 14:29:10 PDT

I have some amazing friends who tell me that when they were young, they read the dictionary from cover to cover. Other friends of mine have read the entire Encyclopedia Britannica. My sister calls me...

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Festival of Learning 2012

Joi — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 01:10:35 PST

Over the weekend, I participated in the Festival of Learning at the Media Lab. It was a student organized event in the spirit of the MIT Independant Activities Period, but even scrappier and more...

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Why we need to stop SOPA and PIPA

Joi — Sun, 15 Jan 2012 10:15:00 PST

I just posted a blog post on the MIT Media Lab blog officially taking a position against SOPA and PIPA. This is a longer blog post co-authored with Ethan Zuckerman describing the issue in more...

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Media Lab @ Tokyo 2012

Joi — Tue, 20 Dec 2011 08:34:55 PST

On January 17, 2012, we will hold a one-day event - MIT Media Lab @Tokyo 2012 about "The Power of Open: Scaling the Eco System." This is a meeting for existing Media Lab members, industry thought...

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The Internet, innovation and learning

Joi — Mon, 05 Dec 2011 14:01:19 PST

Here's how the article that I wrote for the New York Times started before it turned into "In an Open-Source Society, Innovating by the Seat of Our Pants". The New York Times version isn't bad, but...

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Iron Blogger - Strike One

Joi — Mon, 21 Nov 2011 19:24:22 PST

Earlier this month, Mako circulated an email about Iron Blogger. Sounded useful and easy enough so I signed up... and failed. I missed the first deadline and I owe $5. Off to a bad start, but I'll...

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You are the Power of Open: 2011 Creative Commons Annual Campaign

Joi — Tue, 25 Oct 2011 12:15:09 PDT

Today marks the official launch of the 2011 Creative Commons Annual Campaign! As the Chair of the CC Board, I invite you to join us in powering an open future. We've made tremendous progress in the...

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Thoughts on leadership - IBM100 THINK Forum

Joi — Mon, 19 Sep 2011 01:55:24 PDT

Here are some thoughts about leadership as I prepare to participate in IBM's THINK Forum. The Internet has enabled the cost of the production and distribution of ideas and information to plummet...

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Designing systems for transparency robustness

Joi — Sun, 04 Sep 2011 20:58:17 PDT

I've had some interesting conversations about the role of transparency and privacy and I have an opinion about this. I think that we have a world where those in power have secrecy and citizen are...

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Safecast and CC0

Joi — Sun, 04 Sep 2011 19:56:16 PDT

At Safecast.org, I pushed our team to use the CC0 public domain dedication for the data that we are collecting through our radiation measurements instead of a Creative Commons Attribution license,...

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Getting my blog voice back

Joi — Wed, 24 Aug 2011 00:04:16 PDT

I've been wondering whether I should start blogging again. Twitter satisfied so much of my "updating" needs and I had become so busy that it was easy to stop blogging. It seemed that blog comments...

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Blogging

Joi — Tue, 23 Aug 2011 02:09:43 PDT

Does anyone read this thing anymore? I'm trying to decide whether I should start blogging actively again or not.........

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LinkedIn Japan

Joi — Tue, 10 May 2011 23:27:47 PDT

As many of you know, I've been working closely with Reid Hoffman for years now and one of the things that I've been working with Reid on from the beginning was thinking about LinkedIn, especially in...

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Joining the MIT Media Lab

Joi — Tue, 26 Apr 2011 03:05:39 PDT

I'm happy and honored to announce that I've been named the new executive director of the MIT Media Lab. In November of last year, I was attending Silicon Valley Comes to Oxford, a very cool event...

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