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When Google was that new thing with the funny name 8 Jul 2013 | 12:33 am
One little article I wrote 15 years ago for Salon has been making the rounds again recently (probably because Andrew Leonard recently linked to it — thanks, Andrew!). This piece was notable because i...
“A large universe of documents” 30 Apr 2013 | 10:15 pm
“The WorldWideWeb (W3) is a wide-area hypermedia information retrieval initiative aiming to give universal access to a large universe of documents.” That’s how the Web first defined itself to the wor...
‘How to Be Yourself’: My Ignite talk about authenticity 10 Feb 2013 | 08:53 pm
Ignite talks are an exquisite form of self-torture for which you voluntarily stand in front of a crowd and give a five-minute talk timed to twenty slides that advance, inexorably, every 15 seconds. A...
Demonetization 25 Nov 2012 | 01:34 am
Buried near the end of John Markoff’s front-page feature in the Times today about “deep learning”, neural-net-inspired software, this tidbit, which I think requires no further elaboration, but is wort...
Missed stories: About that Horace Mann School article in the Times 9 Jun 2012 | 11:57 pm
I attended the Horace Mann School in Riverdale, N.Y., from 1971 to 1977. I’ve generally thought well of the school as a great environment for a brainy, socially awkward kid like me to learn and grow. ...
Mr. Daisey and the Fact Factory: my take at Grist 18 Mar 2012 | 07:10 am
We interrupt this long blog-silence (more on which soon) to note that if you wanna know my take on the Mike Daisey/Apple/This American Life thing, I’ve just posted over at Grist on it. My career star...
WSJ Social: When news apps want to steal your face 24 Sep 2011 | 10:48 pm
I read about WSJ Social, the newspaper’s experiment at providing a socially driven version of itself entirely inside Facebook, and thought, hey, I should check it out. So I Googled “WSJ Social” and cl...
My next chapter: Grist 13 Sep 2011 | 04:41 pm
After a wonderful couple of years writing Say Everything and another great couple of years building and launching MediaBugs, I’m returning to the world of editing: Starting today, I’m the executive ed...
Steve Jobs, auteurs, and team-building 8 Sep 2011 | 12:43 am
If you look at my life, I’ve never gotten it right the first time. It always takes me twice. — Steve Jobs, in a 1992 Washington Post interview I first wrote about Steve Jobs as a digital auteur in.....
The case of the New York Times’ terror error 29 Jul 2011 | 02:23 am
[This article, which is a collaboration between me and Mark Follman, originally appeared on the Atlantic's website. Since then it has been the subject of a MediaBugs error report filed by Frank Lindh....
