Select recent stories
Computerworld, Managing BYOD expenses: How to get it right, Nov. 12, 2014
Geekwire, Lost forever? Archive Team says TwitPic is blocking photo download before shutdown, Sept. 17, 2014
Geekwire, How Amazon’s new Seattle office buildings will recycle ‘waste heat’ from nearby data centers, Sept. 15, 2014
Computerworld, Cloud BI: Going where the data lives, Aug. 20, 2014
The Economist, Making fancy fertiliser, June 20, 2014
Computerworld, Predictive data, the real workhorse behind the Internet of Things, June 11, 2014
The Magazine, Data Harvesting. Farmers consider — and worry about — large-scale cloud-based data collection (sub. req.), May 22, 2014
Seattle Magazine, The Third Man. Is it really just between you and your doctor at Washington’s many Catholic-affiliated hospitals?, June 2014
Sky Magazine (Delta Airlines), The Future of Intelligent Lighting, May 1, 2014
The Economist, Supercomputers: Game on, March 10, 2014
Puget Sound Business Journal, Conflict over marijuana law puts WSU, farmers in bind (sub. req.), Feb. 21, 2014
Medium, Don’t Call Us: Nancy Gohring makes a first world choice in a third world country, Dec. 17, 2013
Seattle Magazine, Mike McCaw’s stills boil and steam local moonshine, Dec. 2013
The Economist, Hot Property, Oct. 15, 2013
The Magazine, Laid out, Sept. 11, 2013 (if you aren’t a subscriber, you can read the story here.)
Computerworld, Using private cloud for all the right reasons, Sept. 5, 2013
ITworld, Data visualization: Beneficial but perilous, Aug. 15, 2013
ITworld, The thief in the 3D printing world may not be who you think, July 19, 2013
The Magazine, Inkheart, July 4, 2013
CNN/Money, Enterprises launch their own private clouds, June 18, 2013
CNN/Money, Lone Signal aims to send ‘hello!’ tweets to extraterrestrials, June 17, 2013
The Economist, Short-wave ga-ga, June 2, 2013
CNN/Money, Own your own Cray supercomputer for a mere $500,000, May 7, 2013
The Magazine, Lifting One’s Spirits, April 25, 20113
The Economist, Talking to Aliens: This is the world service, March 27, 2013
Computerworld, Cloud services can save you money — if you’re careful, March 13, 2013
The Economist, Plenty of bits in the sea, Feb. 28, 2013
Wired, Don’t Touch That Dial! Low-Power Radio is About to Make FM Hot Again, Feb. 28, 2013
MIT Technology Review, App Feeds Scientists Atmospheric Data from Thousands of Smartphones, Feb. 1, 2013
Computerworld, Speed up mobile app-dev with backend as a service, Jan. 30, 2013 (plus sidebar)
Wired, Your Android Phone Could Help Scientists Predict the Weather, Jan. 7, 2013
The Economist, Managing a vacation, Nov. 21, 2012
Regular gigs
I write daily stories about consumerization trends in the enterprise for CITEworld and two stories a week for my blog, To the Cloud, on ITworld.
Select stories from the archive
The New York Times, Because it’s there: putting Everest online, Jan. 23, 2003
The New York Times, NGO networks in Haiti cause problems for local ISPs, Feb. 22, 2010
The New York Times, On the reservation, the web plays dream maker, June 5, 2003
PC World, Android phones help poor farmers in Uganda, July 20, 2011
The New York Times, After a long climb, cyberchat on Everest, April 17, 2003
PC World, Egyptians find new routes to the web, Jan. 29 2011
Macworld, Jobs wanted own network with unlicensed spectrum, Nov. 15 2011
Computerworld, Google offered to split mobile revenue with Sun, Sept. 7 2011
Computerworld, Microsoft to pay out billions as part of Nokia deal, Feb. 13, 2011
The New York Times, Got a (legal) concert recording? Pass it on, March 6, 2003
The Seattle Times, Cray fills need for computer speed, Nov. 18, 2002
The Seattle Times, Lumera shifts from research to selling products, Nov. 1, 2004
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