Drupal in Context column: Does Coding Matter?
600-word article for Tag 1 Publishing.
A column for Volume 3, Issue 2 of "Drupal Watchdog", the print magazine distributed at the semi-annual DrupalCon. This one describes how to get Drupal…...
Up and Running with Bitcoin (2014)
60-minute online/presentation/video for lynda.com.
(Replaced by my "Learning Bitcoin and Other Cryptocurrencies" in 2017.) Description by lynda.com: "Understand the basics of bitcoin, the popular virtual currency, and then learn…...
Video for “Community Sense and Response Systems: Your Phone as Quake Detector”
6-minute presentation/video for Association for Computing Machinery.
Videojournalism about a program at Caltech that collects seismic data through the cell phones of volunteers throughout the Los Angeles area. I did pretty much…...
Video for the 2013 ACM A.M. Turing Award
6-minute video for Association for Computing Machinery.
A celebration of the life work of Leslie Lamport, recipient of the 2013 ACM A.M. Turing Award. I did production, direction, editing, voiceover, and most…...
The Forever Disc
2000-word article for Association for Computing Machinery.
An article in the May 2014 issue of CACM about data storage for very long times, e.g. a million years....
Buried Ghosts: What Lies Below a Paradise Lost
450-word article for Belt Magazine.
A short elegy to rust-belt towns, as told through the decay of buildings and bodies....
How Do You Feel? Your Computer Knows (video)
4-minute video for Association for Computing Machinery.
A video to accompany this article in CACM. Wrote, produced, and presented....
How Do You Feel? Your Computer Knows (article)
1900-word article for Association for Computing Machinery.
An article in the January 2014 issue of CACM about "affective computing", which enables your computing device to perceive react to your emotions and moods....
Welcome to Lower Self-Worthington (commentary)
1400-word article for Belt Magazine.
My first article for Belt Magazine, "an online magazine devoted to long-form journalism, essay, and commentary with a distinctly Rust Belt sensibility". It examines why…...
Advice from Alumni: Freelancing Basics
3-minute video for Oberlin College.
A done-in-one short video, with minor cutaways. Me giving advice to Oberlin College students on how to get started as a freelancer. Requested by the…...
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…...
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 (video)
6-minute video for Association for Computing Machinery.
A video to accompany this article of the same name. My first solo video production!...
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…...
Keynote from DrupalCamp Western NY
35-minute presentation for Tom Geller.
Keynote presentation from the inaugural two-day event, "DrupalCamp Western NY" in Buffalo, 14 October 2011. The event's theme was "Hello, Universe", so I riffed on…...
PLACEHOLDER: Writing before 2005 (except books)
200000-word for Tom Geller.
A list of my published writing from 1994-2005, totaling maybe 200,000 words, is at http://old.tgeller.com/writing/past-writing/. I hope to eventually incorporate those works into the rest…...