
Published Work
- Can Media Get Beyond Reactive Response to Tragedy? PBS MediaShift, 4/20/2007
- The Tangled State of Archived News Footage Online, PBS MediaShift, 8/27/2007
- University of California at Berkeley Journalism School, Course J298 Syllabus, Fall 2007
- How to rescue your reputation from the New York Times and Google, Jack Shafer, 9/6/2007
- “Jon, your post at Comment Management Responsibility: A Proposal is very detailed and thought provoking, as well as way more comprehensive than anything I’d thought so far.” from Tim O’Reilly, April 2007
- “Jon Garfunkel is doing some amazing writing…” from Boris Mann, April 2005
- “this amazing site which is considering many of the things we consider but is way ahead of us on a lot of stuff” — reflection by Colin McEnroe, Hartford journalist and teacher of a new media class at Trinity College, November 2005
- “Now, there’s one man in the blogosphere who has thought a lot lately about diversity, particular gender diversity in our online community. Jon Garfunkel has done quite a bit of research…” from Elisa Camahort, March 2005.
- Online News Association, associate member
- Content Management Professionals (and Massachusetts chapter member)
- Association of Internet Researchers
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attended Voting, Bits, & Bytes, Berkman Center for Internet Studies, December 2004
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guest attendee at Blogging, Journalism, and Credibility, Berkman Center, January 2005
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led breakout session at Massachusetts BlogLeft, Worcester, December 2005. “Where the technology will lead us”
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attended Gilbane Content Management Seminar SF 2006
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presented on panel at MediaGiraffe Project Conference, UMass-Amherst, June 2006: “The Internet As An Advocacy Tool — Case Studies”
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What I read via RSS feeds, more or less
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What I read directly, more or less
- Birthday: April 1. Hence my Fool Disclosure.
- Grew up in: White Plains, NY.
- Higher Education: B.S.E., Electrical Engineering, Princeton University 1998.
- Ways to misspell my name: John Garfunkle, Garfinkle, Garfinkel, JonSequitor.
- Not regularly confused for: Jonathan Garfunkel, Founder and Director of Tibet Education Network
- Named after: my father’s grandfather, John Kivo. Thus, Hebrew name is Yohanan.
- Middle named-after: 32nd President (Franklin)
- Vehicles: 1998 Honda Civic, 1998 Trek 930.
- Electric bill for January 2006: $95, running Civilities server and electric heat.