: About Me

Justice, liberty, and the self-organization we need for both drive me to get involved in sundry projects. I promote and support several nonprofit organizations, especially public interest news sources (see http://coanews.org). I attended the the University of Massachusetts Amherst as a Commonwealth Scholar studying journalism, economics, political science and information technology and am working on an honors thesis called "Economics for a Better World". In my hometown of Natick, Massachusetts, I served as a town meeting representative, bike everywhere, and oppose fluoridation but drink tap water anyway. I was an original elected director of Amazing Things Arts Center, which seeks to build community through the arts, and I run the center's annual fundraising auction web site. I've worked in media, retail, and consulting. Now, as co-founder of Agaric Design Collective - http://agaricdesign.com - I develop and maintain web sites for companies, organizations, and individuals, using open source free software- mostly Drupal. I am helping form a nonprofit organization called, and for, People Who Give a Damn - http://pwgd.org .

My passion is ...

justice, liberty, and organizing ourselves to build a world with them

I know too much about ...

Drupal

My parents always told me ...

if you had half a brain you'd be dangerous

Politics, News & Issues > News Industry Internet as a threat to newspapers

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The Internet can be an opportunity to newspapers, but too many value control over successful journalism: The San Jose Mercury News and Gary Webb The San Jose Mercury News' location in Silicon Valley is not the first reason it should have become the newspaper of record in the Internet age. Reading about this year's round of layoffs and cutbacks, I think about the journalist the Mercury News cut off twelve years ago during boom times. In 1996, a series of articles by Gary Webb showed the Central Intelligence Agency's complicity in bringing crack cocaine into Los Angeles. Profits from the new...

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