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2004- affiliated with Harvard's Berkman Center for Internet & Society variously as a fellow, senior researcher, member of the Fellows Advisory Board, and affiliate
2022-2023 Embedded at Google as an editor-in-residence, and as a contributor to Moral Imagination. 2018-2020 Embedded as Writer-in-Residence at Google AI research group: PAIR (People + AI Research). NOTE: This was as a contractor to Google, not as a Google employee. Of course I do not speak for Google.
2010-2014, Co-director of Harvard's Library Innovation Lab
Spring 2015, fellow at Harvard's Shorenstein Center for Media, Politics, and Public Policy. (Part of the Harvard Kennedy School.)
Co-author of the best-seller The Cluetrain Manifesto, an early and seminal explanation of the Web as a social space.
Latest book (2019): Everyday Chaos: Technology, Complexity, and How We're Thriving in a New World of Possibility, a multiple-award winning book that says that the Internet and now machine learning have enabled us to embrace the chaotic complexity in which we and our businesses have always lived.
Other books include: Everything Is Miscellaneous, Too Big to Know, and Small Pieces Loosely Joined
Has been published in a wide variety of journals, including Wired, CNN.com and Harvard Business Review many times, as well as in Scientific American, The New York Times, Smithsonian, Foreign Policy, Salon, USA Today, the Boston Globe, The Guardian...even a philosophical article in TV Guide ("Socrates in a Raincoat").
Franklin Fellow at the United States State Department (2009-2011)
Advised three US presidential campaigns on Internet issues.
Has a Ph.D. in philosophy (from the Univ. of Toronto) and taught philosophy in college for 6 years
Called a "marketing guru" by the Wall Street Journal
High tech marketing VP and strategic marketing consultant for twenty years
Wrote gags for Woody Allen's comic strip for seven years. [Note: I wrote for his comic strip, not for his movies.]
Lives in Boston