New York Times technology correspondent
Former Newsweek technology writer
Author, Gearheads
Humongous Brad Stone, porn star
Chairman of Families Worldwide
Garden landscape equipment firm
Member, Sly and the Family Stone
Jennifer Granick, Executive Director Stanford Law School Center for Internet and Society
Loki the Schnoodle, hedonist and layabout
Mr. Boodles, neighborhood security
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Unmasking Fake Steve, from the August 6th New York Times.
Web Site for Teenagers Has X-Rated Link, from the July 11 New York Times.
The Mystery of the Missing Car, from the August 2006 issue of Wired magazine.
Netflix Guilt, from the July 12th Plain Text on Newsweek.com.
Having written a book about the robot hobbyist community, Gearheads: the Turbulent Rise of Robotic Sports, attending Make Magazine’s Maker Faire last weekend felt like a homecoming. Here’s my take, in this week’s Plain Text. Here’s Jennifer’s take, in her Wired.com column.
In today’s Plain Text, I vent some pent-up Cleveland angst while discussing new wired ways to watch baseball this season.
I spent the fall of 2004 researching the cryptic business practices of a New York City adware company called Direct Revenue. In my Newsweek.com story, aiming to be fair-minded, I gave Direct Revenue CEO Joshua Abram a chance to respond to my allegations against his firm. He insisted that his company had done nothing illegal and that it was cleaning up its business practices. (more…)