August 2010

CNN interviewed me about “what’s next for check-in services” and location data as a platform.

Forbes cited my review of the Breaking News Online iPhone app in reporting on the app’s demise.

The Boston Globe cited my coverage of Diaspora, the open-source, privacy-centric alternative to Facebook.

PCWorld, NetworkWorld and the Huffington Post cited my coverage of Google CEO Eric Schmidt’s statements about the coming data revolution and consumer privacy at the Techonomy conference.

FastCompany cited my coverage of Hunch.com’s relaunch.

July 2010

The New York Times interviewed me about the role of Techmeme in the tech blogosphere.

My article How the Old Spice Videos Are Being Made was cited by FastCompany, CBS’s BNet, New York Magazine, The Atlantic’s Daily Dish and BoingBoing, among others. Even a former speechwriter for George HW Bush cited that write-up in US News & World Report. (Odd.) That may have been the most-read article I’ve written to date.

NPR’s All Things Considered interviewed me about the impact the Old Spice commercials have made on the advertising world.

The Poynter School of Journalism blog quoted my analysis of Foursquare’s brand partnerships and the future of geolocation for marketing and more.

June 2010

Harvard’s Nieman Journalism Lab called my discussion of author Nicholas Carr’s critique of links “thoughtful.” Cool.

May 2010

The Electronic Frontier Foundation cited one of my critiques of Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg.

April 2010

The Atlantic cited my analysis of the partnership between the Library of Congress and Twitter.

The Washington Post cited my review of one of Twitter’s first advertising products.

March 2010

CNN quoted my analysis of Facebook’s forthcoming Places feature.

LA Times quoted my review of a startup.

The Wall St. Journal wrote about a Portland mystery being solved using Twitter, based on my original report on the incident.

January 2010

Bloomberg Businessweek Magazine cited my reporting on Facebook’s privacy policy changes.

December 2009

Financial Times quoted my coverage of Facebook’s privacy policy changes. So did the BBC and others.

The Wall St. Journal quoted my response to Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg’s changing privacy settings on his own site.

August 2009

CNN interviewed me about Wikipedia’s community management.

Bruce Sterling in Wired annotates my analysis of the User Experience challenges and opportunities presented by Augmented Reality.

Wall St. Journal cites my scoop of Netscape co-founder Marc Andreeson’s new Facebook-related browser. As did PC World, eWeek and a whole lot of blogs. That was a big one.

June 2009

The Christian Science Monitor cites my analysis of the historical context of Iranian protesters using Twitter.

May 2009

Wired cited my critique of what Data.gov offers at launch.

MacWorld/PC World quotes my analysis of a change to Twitter’s display of replies.

April 2009

The Toronto Star wrote about my coverage of big brands and spammy ads on Twitter.

NY Times quotes my argument that Facebook’s management culture is cult-like.

February 2009

Media Post cited my analysis of Facebook’s co-operation with the OpenID Foundation.

Wired’s Epicenter blogger Michael Calore references my review of an app he reviews as well.

October 2008
Computer World quoted my analysis of YouTube’s history with AdSense when it launched music sales.

Computer World quoted my analysis of Yahoo Profiles and the Newsfeed as the dominant metaphor in social media.

Computer World quoted my analysis of the newly relaunched Google Blogsearch.

September 2008

MediaPost reports on my coverage of the new Google Chrome Terms of Use, which was also cited by Google in announcing a resulting policy change.

Computer World quoted my review of the newly relaunched MySpace Music’s user interface.

The United Nations Humanitarian Affairs News Service cited my writing about the use of Twitter in journalism.

July 2008

Computer World quoted my analysis of Yahoo’s open source search engine, BOSS.

May 2008

NPR reported on my story about the top Digg user, MrBabyMan. Their story and mine, which I am particularly proud of.

PBS quoted my explanation of the importance of APIs for the future.

March 2008

Computer World cited my reporting on an early Facebook photos security breach.

February 2008

Computer World quoted me about how cool the customer service site GetSatisfaction.com is.

January 2008

Computer World quotes my analysis of a Google and Facebook announcement about Data Portability.

December 2007

Utne Reader wrote a piece about the implications for DRM of Pepsi and Amazon’s Superbowl music download promotion, and quoted my coverage of same.

November 2007

Business Week cited my recommendations for improvement of the marketing of OpenID.

November 2006

The San Francisco Chronicle reported about my departure from TechCrunch. When I later rejoined the tech blogging world at ReadWriteWeb, it hit the peak of Techmeme.

October 2006

Business Week cited my critique of the PayPerPost blog ad network when the company announced its venture funding.

June 2006

The Register cited my analysis of the discovery that photo sharing site Photobucket, which was soon after acquired by Fox, was actually bigger than the more-discussed Flickr.

March 2006

Computer World quoted my analysis of the political implications of the alleged discovery of RFID malware.