Joey Mornin
Hello, I'm Joey Mornin. I'm a research assistant at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard, as well as a web developer, photographer, book lover, and many other things I can't quite label. I'm interested in the exciting overlap of technology, policy, and activism. I believe in the open web and open source.
I graduated from Reed College in 2009 with a B.A. in English.
I save a certain amount of time to work on freelance web projects, especially nonprofit and socially conscious initiatives. (I'll be posting project samples online soon. In the meantime, please send me an email and I'll be happy to talk with you. I'm always curious to hear about interesting new projects.)
By Joey Mornin on September 3, 2010
I’m excited to announce that I’ll be joining Fix Congress First as its Online Director! I’ll be splitting my time between the campaign and the Berkman Center. Here’s the announcement from Lawrence Lessig: I’m very excited to welcome Joey Mornin, our new Online Director. In the coming weeks and months, he’ll be working with the [...]
Posted in Fix Congress First | Tagged announcement, campaigning, congress, elections, politics
By Joey Mornin on August 7, 2010
From William Powers’s Hamlet’s Blackberry: The point of the new reading technologies, it often seems, is to avoid deep immersion, precisely because it’s an activity the crowd can’t influence or control and thus a violation of the iron rule of digital existence: Never be alone. Deep, private reading and thought have begun to feel subversive. [...]
Posted in Books | Tagged books reading attention multitasking crowd
By Joey Mornin on July 29, 2010
You decide (some are spam, and some are verbatim passages from Joyce): And the stellas were shinings. And the earthnight strewed aromatose. His pibrook creppt mong the donkness. A reek was waft on the luftstream. He was ours, all fragrance. And we were his for a lifetime. O dulcid dreamings languidous! Taboccoo! Decidedly entering the phone [...]
Posted in Books | Tagged james joyce, language, literature, spam
By Joey Mornin on July 13, 2010
I love how publishers fill the covers of books with madcap, prescient, and illuminating adjectives. Besides the giggle factor, I have a theory that you can learn pretty much everything you need to know about a book from its back cover. So here’s a game: match the following adjectives with the list of titles. If you’re [...]
Posted in Books | Tagged adjectives, books, e-books, literature, publishing
By Joey Mornin on July 7, 2010
If I buy a book—let’s say it’s a recently-published hardcover—am I allowed to download a digital copy of it? I asked the question on Twitter and got two replies: Hardcover should come w/digi version, like vinyl!—@sara_mc I can’t comment on the legality, but I sure think it’s ethically acceptable.—@anasqtiesh I agree—as long as I don’t distribute [...]
Posted in Law | Tagged books, copyright, law
By Joey Mornin on July 7, 2010
Nicholas Carr gave a reading at the Harvard Book Store last week from his new book, “The Shallows”—a well-informed but frustrating sequel to his argument that Google might be making us stupid.
Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged attention, books, brains, literacy, multitasking, reading, webhistory
