Field Notes

Sometimes words or phrases are so fetching that I just can’t get them out of my head without finding a […]

Here’s a snapshot of what I’ve been working on the past two years. Page views on Wired’s Gadget Lab blog,

I’m quoted in Folio magazine’s annual survey of editors and publishers, making an uncharacteristically wild-eyed prediction about how great things

A nice surprise over the weekend: the Gadget Lab podcast I produce has risen to the #6 spot among technology

If you follow my daily haiku magazine, tinywords, you’ll notice that it hasn’t exactly been “daily” for the past week.

For people who love punctuation, there’s always something to grieve about: Humans have trouble understanding semicolons, and computers can’t handle

I love the high, faux-literary tone of this spam message I received today. Its content is essentially the same as

Jay Rosen: ‘No one owns the practice of reporting or assigns the right to do it. It’s a democratic thing

This looks really cool: Google Earth now lets you explore the sky, too. Google LatLong: Sky: The final frontier