I wrote a monthly column about emerging technology, called Technophilia, from 2002-2004. The column ran in the Portland Phoenix, an arts and entertainment weekly based in Portland, Maine, and was geared toward a general audience. These are some of my favorite installments:

get a clue: an early look at the Alternate Reality Game genre

broadcatching: I want my Lost episodes on RSS from ABC, and I want them now

talk hard: podcasting (back when it was called audioblogging)

VoIP for you and me?: when Skype was just a wee babe; a user's guide to the early days of broadband phone service

fair warning: Monsanto sues a local dairy for implying the chemical giant’s bovine growth hormone is unhealthy

story time: graphic novels go digital

imagine: flash mobs and BIT pirates at the RNC

the entire Technophilia archive can be found here

In addition to writing Technophilia I was the staff writer at the Portland Phoenix from 2001-2003. I've written for other publications as well, but the work I did at the Phoenix most accurately represents my creative and journalistic interests -- particularly the following articles:

nobody is immune: vaccines, and why we don’t have enough of them

bucking the system: alternative currencies challenge us to think differently about the Federal Reserve

the drink’s the thing: a stumble down memory lane in the city that spawned Prohibition, written for the paper’s first annual Liquor Issue (this piece won first place for History Reporting, 2002 New England Press Association Awards)

wi fidelity: a crash course on WiFi (circa 2003) and a cruise around Portland looking for hotspots

digital voting: America, meet Diebold

saving sergeant turner: six months after the start of the Iraq war, the health care system for America’s newest generation of combat-wounded veterans is in complete disarray

international man of mystery: a Q&A with Portland-based cryptozoologist Loren Coleman