| Who I Am
Mary Hodder is the founder of Dabble.com, a social search site that helps people organize and playlist media they like, and discover great media through other's recommendations. Dabble has indexed millions of videos from around the web, from 1,000's of sites.
She has worked in and consulted for large and small organizations as an information architect and interaction designer. She has worked with for several web service companies with social media sites. She works with companies in open source, photo sharing and blog aggregation, was at Technorati, and recently completed a survey of the current state of research and development in academia in the area of New Media for the American Press Institute. She is a blogger at Napsterization (napsterization.org/stories/) and an original author at bIPlog (the first UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism blog, on the topic of intellectual property, security and privacy).
She completed her Masters at the School of Information Management and Systems at UC Berkeley in May, 2004. She began her studies at SIMS in 2001 to pursue an understanding of digital media, at the intersection of information technology, the social and professional production of media, journalism, information architecture, intellectual property, privacy, and online communities. She continues to study system design with values, especially privacy for users.
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Graduate course work:
F04
Ling290 Language of Politics, Lakoff (Blog)
S04
IS 299 Final Masters Project, 'Paparazzi, a blog navigation and semantic system,' Van House
F03
IS 290.17 Technology and Policy, Samuelson
IS 290.2 Effective Communication, Consulting
IS 290.8 Technology Strategy, Downes
IS 290.5 Managing New Product Development
J299 Media and Information Economics
Law 299 Law Clinic, Samuelson Clinic for Law and Technology/Chilling Effects)
S03
IS 206 Distributed Computing
IS 214 assignments Usability, Van House
IS 290.4 XML class, Glushko
IS 290.8 XML lab, Glushko
J299.19 (Topic: security and privacy, Battelle)
J299.8 Flash
J299.9 Web Databases
F02
IS 202 assignments Information Architecture and Classification
IS 204 assignments Information and Society
IS 255 assignments Programming Java
IS 299 Garage Cinema Media, Davis
J299.8 assignments Intellectual Property Weblog, Battelle & Grabowicz
S02
IS 290 assignments News Media, Sack
F01
IS 235 Cyberlaw, Samuelson
IS 296 assignments Social Navigation of Information Spaces, Sack
S01
Soc119 / syllabus / Workgroup Information Technology and Society, Castells
F00
Calculus II
Statistics Theory
S00
Statistics I & II
F99
Calculus I