Raising Money the Old-Fashioned Way
"Crowdfunding for technology gains traction" -- an online-only article covering technology funding venues including Fundable, Gittip, Bountysource, and others, with commentary from various players including…...
Format: Article
Supercomputers Get Real
900-word article for Association for Computing Machinery.
A short online-only article about how supercomputer developers are teaming up with application specialists to make the hardware's power more useful....
Seeing is Not Enough
1500-word article for Association for Computing Machinery.
An article about vision systems that recognize actions, rather than just objects....
Making the Internet Safe for Gadgets (article)
1800-word article for Association for Computing Machinery.
An article for CACM about competing technologies to repurpose the Internet's host-centric architecture so it's more appropriate for small, often-mobile devices....
Collect Yourself Before You Forget Yourself
1200-word article for Association for Computing Machinery.
An article for CACM online about lifelogging, touching on the related subjects of veillance and "the quantified self"....
Drupal in Context column: “Getting Help”
500-word article for Tag 1 Publishing.
A column for Issue #5 of "Drupal Watchdog", a print magazine distributed at DrupalCon Portland....
Overcoming the Uncanny Valley
A feature article about the perceptual gap between images of real human faces near-human representations. Abstract: "What makes some near-human characters scary while others are…...
Evaluating Government Funding
600-word article for Association for Computing Machinery.
Abstract: "A presidential report asserts the value of U.S. government investments in the cross-agency Networking and Information Technology Research and Development program and specifies areas…...
Review: OmniFocus
500-word article/review for MacLife.
Review of the productivity and personal-tracking application, OmniFocus (known at the time as "The Omni Group Omnifocus")....
Review: OmniFocus for iPhone
400-word article/review for MacLife.
A review of the productivity and life-tracking app, OmniFocus....
Shrinking cities, Part 3: Investing in America’s urban rebirth
950-word article/series for Inman News.
The third part in a series of three articles about the death (and rebirth) of cities, particularly in the U.S. Rust Belt. (Note: As of…...
Shrinking cities, Part 2: Local knowledge key for small investors in urban areas
1500-word article/series for Inman News.
The second part in a series of three articles about the death (and rebirth) of cities, particularly in the U.S. Rust Belt. (Note: As of…...
Shrinking cities, Part 1: Why cities shrink… and grow
1200-word article/series for Inman News.
The first part in a series of three articles about the death (and rebirth) of cities, particularly in the U.S. Rust Belt. (Note: As of…...
Coda Unites Web Development: Panic Builds Its UI with WebKit, Quartz
1800-word article/case study for Apple.
An article for the Apple Developer Center (ADC) about how someone created a popular developer's tool using Apple technologies. (Article is no longer on ADC;…...
Real estate in an unreal world
1500-word article for San Francisco Chronicle.
A feature article about real-estate tours in the "virtual world" of Second Life....
Envisioning the Wind: Meteorology Graphics at Weather Underground
A feature detailing how the website Weather Underground manages data, produces weather graphics, and collects crowdsourced information to put together its content....
Conversions, Part 3: Marketing converted properties as stylish and practical
950-word article/series for Inman News.
The third part in a series of three articles about how old properties are being used for new purposes. (Note: As of August 2013, these…...
Conversions, Part 2: Speculation in condo conversions: South Florida’s cautionary tale
1000-word article/series for Inman News.
The second part in a series of three articles about how old properties are being used for new purposes. (Note: As of August 2013, these…...
Conversions, Part 1: Changing building’s use presents challenges and rewards
1100-word article/series for Inman News.
The first part in a series of three articles about how old properties are being used for new purposes. (Note: As of August 2013, these…...
Review: Adobe Illustrator CS3
650-word article/review for MacLife.
A review of the popular illustration program....