let me make myself perfectly clear.

“Information wants to be free.”
I design tools that deal with the consequences.

I want to see the web help us come to a better understanding of each other and the world we inhabit together. to that end, I have been helping clients turn ideas into elegant, reliable and captivating web applications for over twelve years. My focus is interface design, but my contributions to a project frequently extend into product strategy, brand development and software engineering. I love working through the perceived boundaries between these disciplines.

In January 2006, I joined Metaweb to work on Freebase, a massive collaboratively-edited database of deeply cross-linked public domain data, made accessible through a powerful API and Creative Commons licensing. I also provide design support to The Long Now Foundation on projects like Long Bets, an arena for making long-term bets about the future. Before Metaweb, clients included Kevin Kelly, Applied Minds and Cartesis SA.

Right now, I'm trying to understand how people think about large datasets that they care about, with an eye towards simplifying collaborative schema creation and data reconciliation.

I'm also interested in:

attention literacy, or how we decide where to focus our attention and who we want focusing attention on us;
intimacy gradients as applied to weblogs and social networks;
data visualization of large structured datasets;
JQuery and emerging server side JavaScript frameworks;
the Django and Pylons Python web-development frameworks;
personal and community branding;
artifacts that can't be mistaken for products.

I want to give you my undivided attention, but I can’t stop thinking about the light in here.

I tend to complicate moments of intimacy with cameras. My friends and lovers tolerate this with an astonishing patience that I'm very grateful for. I try hard to take decent pictures in return.

I also take a lot of pictures of machines, especially old cars and industrial infrastucture. I haven't quite figured out what story I'm trying to tell with these, but it has something to do with how people decide the individual fates of all these machines they've bought or made, and whether they wind up meticulously restored, grudgingly maintained, or mercilessly forgotten.

There are about a million words in the English language. We chose Home.

When kristie dahlia and I got married in 1999, we both changed our last names to Home. We have evolved some pretty unconventional ideas about home and marriage, and we've been talking about trying to write them down for most of the last nine years. More on this to come.

We live in a TIC called hartford.st in the Castro district of San Francisco, with Dan Haskovec, Jennifer Lynch, their daughters Hazel and Oona, Todd Elliott, Judith Zissman, dog Lyle, and cats Boogie, Oh and Po.

Our websites live on minerva, a FreeBSD based system that I've maintained for my community since 1997. minerva shares a cabinet with the rest of The Bandwagon Cooperative, an independent bandwidth co-op that I help keep running.

I'd rather help throw the party.

I love parties, especially ones that connect clever people in unexpected ways that compel them to work together on something genuinely new. I want to help make these events better. To learn how, I've thrown dinner parties, danced under the stars at tiny renegade parties in Santa Cruz hills and Mendocino forests; gone to Burning Man eight times; grilled cheese with Bianca; and attended SXSW, eTech and OSCON. I was a member of the TED volunteer staff for four years, and now manage volunteers and on-site logistics for The Entertainment Gathering.

let me make myself perfectly clear.

“Information wants to be free.”I design tools that deal with the consequences.

I want to give you my undivided attention, but I can’t stop thinking about the light in here.

There are about a million words in the English language. We chose Home.

I'd rather help throw the party.

“Information wants to be free.”
I design tools that deal with the consequences.