I have done a modest amount of online writing in several blogs and forums over the years, mainly in 2006-2007. Here is a summary of that writing. The views expressed may not always reflect my current views.
My main online project has been Felicifia, an online community discussing the ethics of utilitarianism and related topics. The term "Felicifia" is an adaptation of "felicific calculus", a term that Jeremy Bentham used to describe the analysis that a utilitarian would use for evaluating possible actions. I originally launched Felicifia at felicifia.blogspot.com; see this for a summary. That site helped me connected with David Pearce, Jason Matheny, and Alan Dawrst. Together we launched felicifia.com using the SoapBlox platform to make it more of a community site. My posts to felicifia.com can be found here. As traffic at felicifia.com slowed down, the community, lead by Ryan Carey and others (some of whom write anonymously), decided to switch to a forum format, which was established at felicifia.org. My posts to felicifia.org can be found here. felicifia.org is what currently (as of 8 March 2010) hosts the active online utilitarianism community. All are welcome.
I will be writing for futurechallenges.org, a website sponsored by the Bertelsmann Foundation. Bertelsmann is a large media company based in Germany. Its foundation is quite active in public scholarship. futurechallenges.org is planned to host content and discussion oriented towards a holistic understanding of major issues facing humanity. It is planned to launch sometime in 2010. We'll see how it goes!
I have also written at a few other websites:
* I wrote about 15 blog posts to DailyKos, including a series on human extinction. DailyKos covers many topics but is primarily a partisan political site. My views are ultimately grounded in ethics, not politics, but I consider politics to be nonetheless important.
* I wrote three posts at the blog Ecology and Economics: see this, this, and this.
* I wrote one post at the SIAI blog: see this.
* Finally, when I was living in Boston, I participated in the archboston.org forum under the name quadratdackel.
Created 8 Mar 2010 * Updated 8 Mar 2010