He Hacked My Website

In high school, he couldn’t find any other Van Halen fans, so he joined an online community. That took him down a road that led to him co-authoring 2005’s Building Online Communities with Drupal, phpBB, and WordPress, and building a career. Plus:
- phpBB’s insularity problem, that helped create an opportunity for Jared
- The shift away from chronological order online
- Russia’s manipulation of opinions online, through online communities and social spaces