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Editorial Positions
Contributing Writer, Technology Review, 2006-2009
Contributing Editor and Blogger, eWeek.com, 2005-2008
Contributing Editor, Ziff-Davis Media, 2001-2008
Senior Editor, MacWEEK.com, 1998-2000
Contributing Writer, I.D. magazine, 1997-2000
Associate Editor, MacWEEK and eMediaweekly
Reviews Editor, MacAddict, 1996-1997
Books
Master Visually Mac OS X Tiger
published by Wiley and Maran
ASIS&T Book of the Year
Features
A List Apart
Why We Should All Be Data Literate
The Pastry Box Project
Do We Really Need More UX Designers? Or Better UX Designers?
Boxes and Arrows
Academic Papers
A Muddle of Models of Motivation for Using Peer-to-Peer Economy Systems (Honorable Mention, CHI 2015)
Why Users Disintermediate Peer-to-Peer Marketplaces (CHI 2017)
KQED Pop Blog
San Francisco: The Epicenter of Visual Storytelling
Podcasting About Comics Is Like Dancing About Architecture
Medium
How Startups Founders Can Be Like Iraq Warhawks
Is the Design World Becoming a Broken Gift Economy?
UX Magazine
A Tablet Still is Not a Book... Not Yet
Designing Down from Science Fiction: A Staged Approach
Technology Review
The Secret of Apple Design (Cover Story)
Just the Facts: Why We Invaded Iraq (Charles Ferguson interview)
Can Cell Phones on Planes Be Dangerous?
Groups Think: The Center for Collective Intelligence
Public Offering (Review of "We Are Smarter Than Me")
The New York Times
A Comic Strip Takes Video Games Seriously (Almost)
Salon
eWEEK.com
Index of my articles, including coverage of the UTSA and SCA issues raised in Apple Computer Inc. v. Does.
PC Magazine
The Chronicle of Higher Education
The Global Campus Meets a World of Competition
Georgia Tech Plays Video Games to Save Journalism (Ian Bogost profile)
San Jose Business Journal
Networking and Wireless Define Valley Telecom
Nerve
Mat Black and Blue: Wrestling Domination
Feed
Feed Feature: The Microsoft Mitosis
Feed Daily: The Financial World's New Journalism
Feed Daily: The Macromedia Oscars
Feed Daily: Apple's Shifty Internet Strategy
Feed Daily: Microsoft's Beef with Slashdot
Feed Daily: Microsoft's New Marketing
Reviews
Book reviews for Boston Book Review (sample quoted here) and the San Francisco Chronicle
Hardware and software reviews for CNet, ZDNet, MacAddict, ExtremeTech, and PCMag