Alexis Ohanian has a blog

So cool. This is going in my binder. Thanks, XX.

I'll never tire of this photo. #proudinvestor

I never really liked the White Power Ranger, but I'm gonna let that slide. Also -- who chooses Robin? These two guys are pretty awesome.

Kidney Donation

After Kravinsky learned that many African-Americans have difficulty obtaining kidneys from family members, he sought out a hospital in Philadelphia that would allow him to donate one of his kidneys to a lower-income black person.

According to Peter Singer, writing in The New York Times, Kravinsky justified the donation mathematically when speaking to Singer's students, noting that the chances of dying as a result of the procedure would have been about 1 in 4,000. Kravinsky believed that, under the circumstances, "to withhold a kidney from someone who would otherwise die means valuing one’s own life at 4,000 times that of a stranger", a ratio he termed "obscene."

Following the kidney donation, Kravinsky did several interviews with the media, including a radio conference with Robert Siegel of NPR and a TV appearance on CBS among others. During some of these public interviews, Kravinsky argued that should someone be, for instance, on the verge of curing cancer but would die unless Kravinsky were to donate his second kidney, that being the only match in the world, that it would be morally correct to donate the kidney in order that millions of people would be saved. Kravinsky has noted that this admittedly theoretical and highly improbable scenario is the logical extension of someone risking his life by jumping into icy water to save a child, or a soldier cradling a hand grenade to save his buddies.

Damn. Impressive.

So was the Internet created by Big Government or Big Capital? The answer is: Neither. This is what’s most notable about the debate over the Net’s origins: it misses the most interesting part of the story. We live in a world that assumes that the most important and original products in society — bridges, cars, iPads, hospitals, 787s, houses — are created either by states or by corporations. And yet, against all odds, the Internet came from somewhere else entirely.

Peer networks for the win.

Apps he loves

As a touring stand-up comedian, he likes the Hipmunk travel app. "It's better than Travelocity," he says. On the set, when he's bored, he reaches for Shout It, an app that lets you type a phrase and have it scroll across the screen. He also uses the IMDb movie database app and Showtimes for local movie listings.

Taking the agony out of a standup comedian's travel.

Yeah. Right.