Mark is an author and entrepreneur. His first novel, Max Quick Book One: The Pocket and the Pendant recently received over 2.4 million downloads as a podcast audiobook. He has co-founded three online media companies, the most recent of which was sold to IAC / InterActiveCorp in 2004. His first project, The Palace, an avatar-based virtual world platform backed by Time Warner and Intel had an audience of ten million users, and was selected as one of the 'Best of 1996' by Entertainment Weekly. Mark has been named one of Hollywood's "50 Creatives To Watch" by Variety magazine. He is currently CTO of Mahalo.com, a new human-powered search engine and is releasing weekly episodes of the podiobook version of Max Quick Book Two: The Two Travelers.

Blog Entries by Mark Jeffrey

AT&T Censoring the Net?

2 Comments | Posted July 27, 2009 | 12:22 PM (EST)


Today, AT&T decided to censor part of the Internet. AT&T unceremoniously and without notification blocked 4chan.org. That's right: AT&T has begun deciding which sites are okay for you and I to view.

A bit of background: 4chan.org is an extremely influential segment of the web population. You've heard...

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Meet the new Boss. Same as the old Boss?

Posted March 11, 2009 | 04:13 AM (EST)


"The change, it had to come ..."

So we were told. So we held up the iconic blue-and-red signs that read, "Hope."

But nowadays, it's looking more like, "Meet the new Boss. Same as the old Boss."

Barack Obama promised us a more Web 2.0-type government. We were promised transparency....

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Sarah Palin: Laura Roslin?

Posted September 2, 2008 | 03:47 PM (EST)


Watching the whole Sarah Palin saga unfold, I can't help but think of Laura Roslin from Battlestar Galactica.

On the show, humanity is all but wiped out by the Cylons. The President is killed. In fact, most of the government is killed. The constitutional line of presidential succession ends up...

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Make The NY Times Bestseller List... By Giving Your Book Away

Posted May 18, 2008 | 04:21 PM (EST)


These days, the best way to sell something may be to just give it away.

That's what author Scott Sigler did with his new novel Infected. Originally a podiobook (podcast audiobook) given away for free, Infected is the sort of novel no publisher in world would think...

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Amazon.com: Print Through Us...Or Else

Posted April 7, 2008 | 03:07 PM (EST)


We live in an exciting time for artists. A time when the clutching, gnarled fingers of The Proverbial Middleman are being peeled off.

Nine Inch Nails and Radiohead sell music directly over the internet, with no record label whatsoever. Authors are now publishing their own...

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Open-Source Government

Posted June 12, 2007 | 10:23 PM (EST)


In recent years, we've seen the growth of a canker on the Constitution.  A swelling blind spot where were are increasingly not allowed to look.  I'm talking about abuse of governmental secrecy.  'We the people' cannot effectively self-govern when certain things are routinely hidden from our view. 

Now, of course...
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Ron Paul: Internet Celeb?

Posted May 17, 2007 | 01:44 PM (EST)


Republican presidential candidate Ron Paul is far and away the most popular on the Internet. Yet, despite his massive online lead, the mainstream media has barely managed to cover him at all.

On 5/14 and 5/15, Ron Paul was the #1 most-searched-for term on blog search engine Technorati. On post-debate...

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Freedom of Speech: Non-Negotiable

Posted November 28, 2006 | 07:06 PM (EST)


As regular readers of HuffPo no doubt have seen today, former Speaker and presidential hopeful Newt Gingrich recently made the interesting assertion that we 'need to re-examine freedom of speech' in this post 9/11 world.

Well, listen up, Newt: Freedom of speech is non-negotiable. It is a core American value....

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The 'Global Warming' of the Internet

Posted October 29, 2006 | 11:35 PM (EST)


Right now, you're snug in your chair, reading the Huffington Post. Hope you're enjoying it -- because (much like global warming) if things keep going the way they are, that simple pleasure could all take a nasty turn south in a very short period of time.

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