Gordon Brown

Not the former Prime Minister of the UK. My friend Gordon Brown, who lives out in San Diego, and is just beginning his acting career. He’s the good looking guy driving the Dodge Journey on the beach:

Dan Siegel and the Super PAC App

My good friend Dan Siegel is in the process of launching a smartphone app that will help TV watchers who are bombarded with election-related commercials funded by Super PACs identify (1) which organizations are paying for the ad, (2) what other political initiatives they support, and (3) what research has been done to substantiate their claims. The app will use sound tagging technology to identify the commercial based on a recorded sound clip, similar to the technology used by the Shazam app. The idea came out of a project for a digital media class in MIT’s media lab. Dan, along with his co-founder Jennifer Hollett from the Harvard Kennedy School, recently received funding to make it a reality, and are working pretty hard (I can’t even get Dan

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