My name is Matthew. Or Matt. You can call me either.
I'm in this class because I'm interested in how technology impacts democracy, and lately, mobile phones have done some prettyinterestingthings.
I want to create something that helps disorganized mobs of people coordinate their actions or takes advantage of their collective knowledge.
I've done Web design on the side for about 10 years. This includes a few PHP\/MySQL-based sites and Perl script here and there. Basically, whenever a site required something I didn't know, I learned the bare minimum necessary to make it work. So there are lots of holes in my knowledge.
My phone is a Nokia 3120. I'm a function-over-form advocate, and this phone just works. Aside from calling and texting people, I use it only to text Google Local to find area businesses. Sometimes, it's great. Other times, it sucks.
