Author: Mike Sugarman

  • Welcome to the new iDPI website

    Welcome to the new iDPI website

    Hello, welcome to the new publicinfrastructure.org! I hope you find it colorful and inviting. There’s a lot of information on this site because there’s a lot of different things we do, but my intention is to create a space that rewards curiosity while making it easy to locate just what you came here to find.…

  • Freq: A Platform Tuned for Music Community

    Freq: A Platform Tuned for Music Community

    Freq is an experimental platform for social music discovery from the Initiative for Digital Public Infrastructure at UMass Amherst.

  • Keyword: Decentralization

    Keyword: Decentralization

    This is an entry in our Keyword series, where we try to define the terms you’ll often hear when people talk about building a better Internet and put those keywords in their current context. The term decentralization gets thrown around a lot today, often referring to a paradigm shift in Internet technologies that’s just around…

  • Keyword: Interoperability

    Keyword: Interoperability

    Interoperability — it’s a gruesome little chunk of jargon that refers to a fairly fundamental tenet of the Internet. Simply, it means that different applications and devices can share the same data with one another. As users, we enjoy interoperability daily.

  • We Love Music, So Why Is Joe Rogan Getting Rich?

    We Love Music, So Why Is Joe Rogan Getting Rich?

    We’re Doing What We Love So Joe Rogan Can Get Paid Seven Figures Say the N-Word, Denigrate Trans People, and Undermine Vaccines