I feel like I should help Harvard, because Harvard helped me, and if you use podcasting or RSS, it helped you too.
In 2002, I was ready to leave Silicon Valley, and RSS needed a safe place to be parked, or I felt the tech industry would keep trying to own it, and make it far more complicated than it needed to be. And I wanted the intellectuals of academia to blog.
So I knocked on the door at Harvard, because I heard they had a program that was close to being up my alley — the Berkman Center for the Internet and Society. My friend John Perry Barlow was a founding member. I figured if they could handle a Grateful Dead lyricist, and general muck-raking rabble-rouser like Barlow, they might be able to appreciate someone of my creative caliber. They accepted me, gave me run of the place, defended