With Google (NSDQ: GOOG), many media companies have come to see an insurrection everywhere they look. Last month, it was the Google Books settlement. Before that, it was the Associated Press crying foul on Google’s aggregation practices. Next month, it will probably be Flipper. (Can Google be both a “vampire” and “tapeworm”?)
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Welcome to my writing portfolio.
I am a New York-based freelance journalist and interactive media consultant.
My writing appears in publications such as the New York Times, Slate and Wired. Archives here include selected past work.
At once rarefied and accessible, with a singular visual style that’s impossible to carbon-date, Wings has earned its place alongside the likes of The Seventh…
The country’s leading think-tank describes the gender imbalance among newborns as the most serious demographic problem facing China. The surplus of bachelors — known as…
Paging David Foster Wallace:
A huge Royal Caribbean liner docked 60 miles away from Haiti’s devastation in the heavily guarded resort of Labadee, and it won’t…
Marriage is Cary Grant and Rosalind Russell standing side by side in the closing scene of His Girl Friday, nattering on with the same jollity…
During her class in the prison, Professor Richards walked a fine line between energizing her students with the demands of real scholarship and scaring them…
In any society, he maintained, “the purpose of a myth is to provide a logical model capable of overcoming a contradiction.”
As he saw it, the…
I’ve had many wonderful students at Yale and Columbia, bright, thoughtful, creative kids whom it’s been a pleasure to talk with and learn from. But…
Put some distance between you and your Master Card; don’t let your Iphone make the rules. You don’t have to buy their language. It already…
Though an excellent poet and storyteller, aside from his critical power, Johnson now matters most as a wisdom writer. His test for literary criticism was…
