2005-04-29»
new job»Can't believe Quinn scooped me on this. No wonder I'm quitting journalism.
It's true. I'm off to the EFF. My title is "Activist Co-ordinator" (make up your own jokes), where I'll be applying some of the lessons I learnt helping out with STAND and Fax Your MP and They Work For Youin the UK.
One thing we definitely learnt is that even the smallest bit of new information, or the tiniest of tweaks - in user interface, responsiveness, outreach - can have big effects. So if you have any suggestions about any part of the EFF, or you're running something that you think the EFF should know about, let me know.
Oh, and become a member! That way you can boss me around with impunity.
Will still be carrying on with NTK, To Evil (although objective measurements of evil as conducted by that column may not match the poorer subjective yardsticks used internally by the EFF), and the Irish Times column. The genial demons of O'Reilly's production department have now begun their gentle poking of my and Merlin's voodoo dolls, so the theoretical Productivity Hacks book continues apace also.
I don't know how it's possible to blog less here, but I'll try.
And of course, Quinn's actually doing pretty well in journalism now herself. Which means they'll probably be some hilarious Hill Street Blues/West Wing-style kitchen-table battle over her reporting of the EFF's fights in our future. To which: no comment.