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Follow me on Google Buzz and check back here, too. I’m occasionally guilty of burying the lede, so here’s the big announcement. I’m taking my day to day blogging...
The icon for Yojimbo, one of many tools listed here. I’m beginning some new research projects and I decided that my Mac was getting far too cluttered with random notes and...
As a journalist, academic, and computer nerd, I’ve watched with fascination as Internet denizens and digital distribution have created shifts and rifts in our media landscape. What do blogs, wikis, digital video, and all the rest mean for traditional journalism? What does journalism mean for them? And what are the right questions to be asking about all these things?
Here’s where you’ll find any random thoughts or commentary on life, the Universe, and everything that I’ve seen fit to share with the world for one reason or another. Some entries are on academia and what I do for a living, and others focus on a wide array of different things. Take a look, see what you think, and please chime in whenever you like.
Over the years, I’ve kept a number of open travel journals. Here on this site, I’ve collected a number of my favorite entries since 2005. Think of them as vignettes—snapshots both of the places I visited, and from various moments in my life.
Here’s where you can find out where I’m publishing and presenting my research—among other things. When I’m not doing research or grading papers, I moonlight as a science journalist. I’ve worked for Seed Magazine, NPR, and Scientific American online. I also enjoy putting a spotlight on work by my friends, and you’ll find some of their work here, too.
I’m beginning some new research projects and I decided that my Mac was getting far too cluttered with random notes and PDFs. Spotlight or no, it was getting hard to find things—let alone draw interesting connections between them. I knew there were some great productivity programs for Mac, variously called “notetaking software,” “productivity tools,” or [...]
Far too much time, in both web and print publishing, is spent agonizing over how to shoehorn pieces of writing into one section of a publication or another. In real life we celebrate when our various interests converge, and that’s what I’ve attempted here. This box is where you’ll find the latest post that reflects several of my interests. The connecting lines show you which those are.
