“Facebook’s Disconnect: Open Doors, Closed Exits” – TechCrunch

More press for Give Me My Data, this time by Rohit Khare from TechCrunch (thanks for the note Evan.). “Give Me My Data has a more open-ended design that supports exploration and experimentation, in part because it sports an impressive array of formats to download your friend lists and other information for use in other […]

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Fading an LED with PWM and a Potentiometer

Using a potentiometer and PWM on an Arduino to fade an LED.   /* POT to LED test -> by Owen Mundy March 11, 2010    from: http://itp.nyu.edu/physcomp/Labs/AnalogIn —————————————————————*/   int potPin = 0;    // Analog input pin that the potentiometer is attached to int potValue = 0;  // value read from the pot […]

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“Facebook App Brings Back Data by Riva Richmond” – The New York Times

Facebook App Brings Back Data by Riva Richmond, New York Times, May 1, 2010 “The app is “making hackers out of regular users,” says the developer, Owen Mundy, an assistant professor in Florida State University’s art department. And it’s giving them a way to exercise ownership rights over their data. (After all, Facebook’s Statement of […]

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Give Me My Data updates

Give Me My Data is a Facebook application that helps you reclaim and reuse your facebook data. It is currently in-development but starting to receive an amazing amount of traffic from Facebook users. Apparently the developers at Facebook made a change to the interface this week leaving many users unable to find or display specific […]

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Letter in Support of Ricardo Dominguez and Brett Stalbaum

To whom it may concern, I write this letter in support of Professors Ricardo Dominguez and Brett Stalbaum, and their collaborators at the Bang.Lab at the University of California, San Diego. The criminalization of the research conducted by Dominguez and Staulbaum can and should be expected by xenophobic and racist outsiders in the San Diego community, […]

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