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Uncensored
A Charitable Project to Support The Open Internet
About the Book
The recent debates around SOPA/PIPA legislation emphasized the importance of free expression. As citizens of the Internet we have a collective responsibility to determine the future of the technology underpinning so much of our modern lives. The authors included here stepped up to contribute their support to the pursuit of digital rights. All profits from this ebook will be donated to the Electronic Frontier Foundation (https://www.eff.org/). The payment processing fees are 30 cents and 2.9% of every sale; the rest goes to the EFF. Our goal is to earn exactly $0 on this.
This volume contains blog posts - some old, some new - from many names familiar to you and hopefully some new voices. We will continue to provide free updates to your purchase with new content as we are able to collect it from authors of interest. If you want to suggest an author please send their contact information to hunterwalk+eff@gmail.com.
About the Editors
About the Contributors
Author of the lean startup methodology and a frequent public speaker. He previously co-founded and served as Chief Technology Officer of IMVU.
Adam Rifkin is an entrepreneur in Silicon Valley who oversees a monthly gathering of startup engineers called 106 miles.
Co-Founder of Leanpub. Author of Lean Publishing, Hello! Flex 4 and Flexible Rails.
Director, Mobile Engineering, Facebook
VC focusing on early-stage technology companies; host of This Week in Venture Capital.
Senior Researcher at Microsoft Research, Research Assistant Professor in Media, Culture, and Communication at New York University, Visiting Researcher at Harvard Law School, and Fellow at Harvard's Berkman Center.
ME, GRIMLOCK, GIANT ROBOT DINOSAUR THAT WRITE CODE, DRINK COFFEE, KICK ASS.
David Hornik is an investor at August Capital, the author of VentureBlog, & the executive producer of The Lobby Conference.
Jenna Bilotta is a product experience designer and freelance consultant. She has designed experiences for YouTube and Google Reader.
Fred Wilson is a VC and principal of Union Square Ventures
Founder of four companies including Smart Bear and currently WPEngine.
Co-founder of Fog Creek Software and Stack Overflow.
Cofounder of Hunch, Founder Collective, and SiteAdvisor.
Partner at Greylock, former CEO at Mozilla.
Andy Weissman is a partner at Union Square Ventures. Andy began his career in the Internet at AOL in the mid-90s, then managed a series of venture funds with Dawntreader Ventures. In 2007 he co-founded betaworks, which both created and invested in social, real-time applications and services.
New York City-based financial advisor at Fusion Analytics.
Auren Hoffman is the CEO of Rapleaf. Rapleaf helps companies learn more about their customers to give their consumers a more personalized experience. Auren is also a non-employee cofounder of BrightRoll.
CEO and founder of Techdirt, a weblog that focuses on technology news and tech-related issues.
Editor of SearchEngineLand.com, covering Google, SEO, PPC and all aspects of search engines and search marketing.
Founder of O'Reilly Media and a supporter of the free software and open source movements.
product guy: me make stuff. sometimes me make good stuff (youtube, google, second life). Sometimes me make mess! http://www.hunterwalk.com @hunterwalk
Erick Schonfeld is the Editor in Chief of TechCrunch. He oversees the editorial content of the site, helps to program the Disrupt conferences and CrunchUps, produces TCTV shows, and writes daily for the blog. He is also the father of three adorable children.
Working on operations at Votizen. I’m interested in digital media, consumer, and social networks, and advise the following companies: Dygest (launching Dec 2011), Gumroad (launching Dec 2011), Ayasdi, Bump, Mosonex, and Rexly (where I previously worked). I am a contributor to TechCrunch.
CEO / Co-Founder of @KISSmetrics. Previously started @crazyegg and @acs. I love creating something out of nothing and helping other entrepreneurs do the same. http://hitenism.com
I’m Ryan Spoon. I work for Polaris Venture Partners and am based in San Francisco’s Dog Patch Lab off Pier 38. Previously, I founded beRecruited.com (acquired in 2007), spent 2003-2007 at eBay (internet marketing, social media & leading Kijiji.com) and launched InGameNow as part of sfEntrepreneurs, LLC. Most recently, I lead marketing at Widgetbox.com.
VC. Father. Geek http://www.firstround.com
Executive in Residence at Greylock and Mentor at MuckerLab
Group Product Manager at Google http://www.kennethnorton.com/
Reader in Music Industries Innovation at Birmingham City University, advisor to Bandcamp and Planzai, and founder of New Music Strategies – a pan-European music think tank and strategy group.
Marc Andreessen is a co-founder and general partner of the venture capital firm, Andreessen Horowitz.
He is also co-founder and chairman of Ning and an investor in several startups including Digg, Plazes, and Twitter. He is an active member of the blogging community.
Previously, Andreessen developed Mosaic and co-founded Netscape.
Co-founded Apple Music Group, worked at N2K (one of the first online music companies), co-founded MyPlay (pioneer of the digital music locker), and was COO/CEO of eMusic for five years. David is now a Partner at Venrock in NYC focused on early stage digital media companies.
VP Content Strategy, O'Reilly Media, pianist, ham radio op
CEO/Co-Founder of Stocktwits, GP of Social Leverage (Angel Investing), Wallstrip creator
I help startups, corporates, and individuals with their technology and business problems. I have a potty mouth. http://nathan.torkington.com/
Author of Bailout Nation and CEO and at Fusion IQ, an online quantitative research firm.
Activist at @EFF. WikiLeaks legal analyst. Press freedom advocate. Digital civil liberties enthusiast.
Entrepreneur and angel investor in palo alto, ca and chief experience officer at Syfto.
VC and co-founder of O'Reilly AlphaTech Ventures.
Venture investor, company advisor, and adventure junkie based in San
Francisco and Truckee, CA.
Rachel Sklar is a writer and social entrepreneur based in New York. She is the founder of Change The Ratio, which increases visibility and opportunity for women in tech & new media, and was a founding editor at Mediaite and the Huffington Post. A former lawyer who writes about media, politics, culture & technology, she speaks widely at conferences, on panels and on TV. And tweets. Rachel is a TechStars mentor, an advisor to several startups and an encyclopedia of showtunes.
Writes for PandoDaily, a news site which she founded, and is the author of “Once You’re Lucky, Twice You’re Good: The Rebirth of Silicon Valley and the Rise of Web 2.0” (Gotham Books, May 2008) and “Brilliant, Crazy, Cocky: How the Top 1% of Entrepreneurs Profit from Global Chaos" (Wiley, February 2011).
Dr. Michael Geist is a law professor at the University of Ottawa where
he holds the Canada Research Chair in Internet and E-commerce Law.
When he's not shipping Ruby, Javascript and Java applications scaling out to millions of users, Reg "Raganwald" Braithwaite has authored libraries for Javascript and Ruby programming such as Katy, JQuery Combinators, YouAreDaChef, andand, and others.
Writer at TechCrunch
Nilofer Merchant is a corporate director (NASDAQ: EPAX), TEDx / Keynote speaker, and an inspiring Harvard Business Review columnist. Read her work and you'll see she's also a bit of a rebel-rouser, wanting to ignite fearless cultures, everywhere.
VC & founding partner at 500 Startups, an internet startup seed fund and incubator program in Mountain View, CA.
Whitney Johnson is a founding partner of Rose Park Advisors, Clayton M. Christensen's investment firm, and is the author of the forthcoming Dare-Dream-Do: Remarkable Things Happen When You Dare to Dream (Bibliomotion, May 2012).
music+technology - geek and fan in equal measure
VP Product, Live Nation
CEO of Topspin, host of This Week In Music.
Technology entrepreneur, co-founder and CEO of Mixer Labs, Director at Twitter.
West Coast Director for Launch Capital. I hail from Yahoo!, frogdesign, and Apple.
Senior writer at GigaOm, a former journalist with the Globe and Mail and co-founder of the mesh conference in Toronto.
Cory Doctorow (craphound.com) is a science fiction author, activist, journalist and blogger -- the co-editor of Boing Boing (boingboing.net) and the author of the bestselling novel Little Brother.
Managing director at Foundry Group.
Cofounder of Flickr and Hunch.
Margaret Gould Stewart is the Director of User Experience at YouTube. She lives with her husband, three kids, and spoiled Golden Retriever in a restored Eichler home in Palo Alto, CA.
Partner at CrunchFund, Columnist at TechCrunch.
Angel investor (Facebook, Twitter, StumbleUpon, Evernote, et al) and author of the #1 NYT bestsellers The 4-Hour Workweek and The 4-Hour Body.
Table of Contents
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Introduction
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Adam Nash
- Be a Great Product Leader
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Adam Rifkin
- Be Lucky
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Alexia Tsotsis
- Keeping Up With The Normals
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Andrew Dubber
- How long should music copyright be?
- Should I be worried about piracy?
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Andy Weissman
- Information Does Not Want To Be Free
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Auren Hoffman
- Fail to Succeed
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Barry Ritholtz
- Why Foreclosure Fraud Is So Dangerous to Property Rights
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Brad Feld
- This Is The Smell Of Inevitability
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Bryce Roberts
- Ten Years of Innovation Highlighted in One Night
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Caterina Fake
- FOMO and Social Media
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Chris Dixon
- Some lessons learned
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Chris Sacca
- Shhhh . . . Listen . . .
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Cory Doctorow
- Secret documents reveal the flimsy case for Ofcom to give into BBC's public TV DRM demands
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Cory Ondrejka
- Big Brother versus Little Brother
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danah boyd
- Social Steganography: Learning to Hide in Plain Sight
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Danny Sullivan
- If Google Was New York City & Online Piracy Was Knock-Off Handbags\ldots {
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Dave McClure
- Subscriptions are the New BLACK. (+ why Facebook, Google, & Apple will own your wallet by 2015)
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David Hornik
- Isn't "Hypomanic Entrepreneur" Redundant
- VCitis
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David Pakman
- Wither the Giants? The Arrogance of Aging Incumbents
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David Shen
- Steve Jobs on Design: Explicit vs. Implicit Authority, Authority is Earned
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Derek Slater
- Piracy Invades Privacy, Encourages Cyberbullying, and Creates a Thriving Artistic Culture; Or, Compassion for The Winnebago Man and Robert Levine
- Powellâ^^80^^99s Four Freedoms and Obamaâ^^80^^99s Line of Commercial/Noncommercial Demarcation
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Elad Gil
- You Don't Need A Good Idea To Start A Great Company
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Eric Ries
- The Visionary's Lament
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Erick Schonfeld
- The Cambrian Explosion In Startups
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Ethan Kaplan
- The Problem with "Like" and the Loss of Love
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FAKEGRIMLOCK
- STARTUP IS VISION
- MINIMUM VIABLE PERSONALITY
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Fred Wilson
- Investing In The Cultural Revolution
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Hiten Shah
- You're Mentoring the Wrong Way
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Howard Lindzon
- Too 'SMALL' To Fail!!!
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Hunter Walk
- Sorry Mike, Facebook could reboot and we'd mess it up again
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ian c rogers
- How About This Instead Of Sopa? My Proposal For Legislation To Proactively Combat Piracy While Encouraging An Open And Innovative Internet
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Jason Cohen
- Why I feel like a fraud
- When free markets make it worse: new TLDs
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Jenna Bilotta
- How designers and engineers can play nice (and still run with scissors)
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Joel Spolsky
- Two things about SOPA/PIPA & then I'll shut up :)
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John Lilly
- Kit
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Josh Kopelman
- Founders and Heat Seeking Missiles
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Joshua Brown
- The Man Behind the Curtain
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Ken Norton
- How to hire a product manager
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Marc Andreessen
- How to hire the best people you've ever worked with
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Margaret Stewart
- Hard-earned career advice
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Mark Suster
- What Makes an Entrepreneur? Four Letters: JFDI
- Whose Life are You Going to Change?
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Mathew Ingram
- MegaUpload case proves we don't need SOPA or PIPA
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MG Siegler
- Pushing The Envelope, Not The Share Button
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Michael Geist
- The Day the Internet Fought Back
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Mike Loukides
- On pirates and piracy: The media industry's wholesale takeover of creativity is the real piracy
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Mike Masnick
- The Future Of Music Business Models (And Those Who Are Already There)
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Nat Torkington
- "The President's challenge: What more does government want --- or deserve --- from the tech world?"
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Nilofer Merchant
- Silence Hurts
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Peter Armstrong
- Lean Publishing
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Rachel Sklar
- Fair Use: Okay, Let's Talk About It
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Reginald Braithwaite
- I have a bad feeling about this
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rohit sharma
- On Startup Values
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Ryan Spoon
- 11 Ways to Usher the NFL, NBA, MLB into the New Web
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Sarah Lacy
- The Chilling Story of Genius in a Land of Chronic Unemployment
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Semil Shah
- The Illusion of Social Networks
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Tim Ferriss
- Scientific Speed Reading: How to Read 300% Faster in 20 Minutes
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Tim O'Reilly
- SOPA and PIPA are bad industrial policy
- Before Solving a Problem, Make Sure You've Got the Right Problem
- Further thoughts on SOPA, and why Congress shouldn't listen to lobbyists
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Trevor Timm
- How PIPA and SOPA Violate White House Principles Supporting Free Speech and Innovation
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Whitney Johnson
- Disrupt Yourself
Causes Supported
Electronic Frontier Foundation
Defending your civil liberties in a digital world.
https://www.eff.org/Based in San Francisco, EFF is a donor-supported membership organization working to protect fundamental rights regardless of technology.
From the Internet to the iPod, technologies are transforming our society and empowering us as speakers, citizens, creators, and consumers. When our freedoms in the networked world come under attack, the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) is the first line of defense. EFF broke new ground when it was founded in 1990—well before the Internet was on most people's radar—and continues to confront cutting-edge issues defending free speech, privacy, innovation, and consumer rights today. From the beginning, EFF has championed the public interest in every critical battle affecting digital rights.
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