### Jul 18, 2013

Today, we have joined a large and diverse group of companies, non-profits and consumer advocates in an open letter urging the US government to allow internet and telecom companies to freely report statistics on government surveillance requests. As we've discussed before, [...] [Read more](/content/writing/2013/07/transparency-in-government-surveillance/index.html)

### May 9, 2013

This week, Senator Schumer introduced legislation that would take a whack at patent trolls: the Patent Quality Improvement Act aims to make it easier and cheaper for companies facing spurious infringement suits to defend themselves. This is not a complete [...] [Read more](/content/writing/2013/05/the-patent-quality-improvement-act/index.html)

### Apr 24, 2012

Today we are excited to bring together a group of thinkers and doers to USV to discuss how networks are transforming our society and economy [Read more](/content/writing/2012/04/hacking-society/index.html)

### Apr 13, 2012

Yesterday at the Center for Civic Media, our lunch guest was S. Craig Watkins, a professor at UT Austin working on a variety of projects under the heading of “Connected Learning”. In his blog post about the idea, Dr. Watkins defines this as: [...] [Read more](https://www.nickgrossman.xyz/2012/connected-learning/)