When I am not busy with my studies, I spend a lot of my spare time doing communication policy outreach and advocacy.

For instance, I founded the blog Shouting Loudly, a source for news and opinion on topics such as media policy, the media industry, and media representations of social and political issues. Fellow Annenberg students Jason Tocci and Lokman Tsui have joined me in this effort.

I also seek to reach out to a larger audience than those who read our blog. I wrote an opinion piece for the Philadelphia Indymedia Center calling for a federal policy of network neutrality; the article was reprinted in the Indypendent, a New York City newspaper. I published letters in Macworld and MacAddict warning about the dangers of trusted computing.

Further, I participate in the policy making process directly. This year, I submitted a reply comment as part of a triennial rulemaking held by the US Copyright Office to determine exemptions to Section 1201(a)(1) of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA). I also testified at a later stage of the same rulemaking.

In 2006, I was an intern at Public Knowledge, "a Washington, DC based advocacy group working to defend your rights in the emerging digital culture." I still occasionally write for the PK blog.

If you find any of the above interesting, please email me: Bill D Herman @at@ gmail dot com