I like to describe myself as a strategist / writer / activist. My current projects include Tales from the Net, a book on social networks I’m worting with Deborah Pierce and my brother Greg; volunteering for the Northwest Entrepeneur Network; and an as-yet-unnamed social network startup. I am also a founder, advisor, and board member at Qworky, a Seattle-area startup focused on meetings that don’t suck.
Previous work includes leading the Ad Astra (Analysis and Development of Awesome STRAtegies) project as General Manger for Strategy Development in Microsoft’s Online Services Group; creating the static analysis tools PREfix and PREfast as founder and CTO of startup Intrinsa and then at Microsoft Research; security planning with the Windows Security Push and XPSP2 task forces; chairing the ACM conference on Computers, Freedom, and Privacy in a Network Society; and the National Academies/CSTB software dependability panel Sufficient Evidence? I also have done a lot of online activism and organizing, including the #p2 Twitter hashtag, Get FISA Right, and the Voter Suppression Wiki.
My primary current research interests include the interactions between social networks, communication, and diversity theory, trolls, and recasting the field of computer science as a social science. Some of the social science approaches embodied in Qworky and my earlier work include asset-based thinking, narratology, cognitive diversity, intersectionality, standpoint theories and situated knowledges, oppression theory, action research, and hot pink beanbag chairs. My recent writing on activism applies many of these concepts to civil liberties and other areas. Cognitive evolution and revolution, Guys talking to guys who talk about guys, and Make desire more important than fear provide some theoretical underpinnings for Qworky.
I currently blog about all of these topics as well as voting rights, political activism, poetry, and whatever else crosses my mind at Liminal States and occasionally elsewhere. You can contact me via Twitter, LinkedIn, free-association, Facebook, or MySpace. or jon {at} qworky {dot} net via email.