About Me
I am a New York-based freelance journalist and interactive media specialist. I live in charming Boerum Hill, Brooklyn, with my fetching wife.
My writing on culture, science and technology has been published widely, including in The New York Times, Slate, The Boston Globe, The San Francisco Chronicle, Wired, The New York Observer, Elle, Salon.com, MIT Technology Review, Print, Institutional Investor, Wired News, and many points abroad.
I moonlight actively as a consultant. I'm a subject matter expert in interactive content strategy and a member of the Avenue A | Razorfish media and entertainment practice.)
I've written on subjects ranging from bathroom graffiti to evolutionary psychology, serious gaming to public intellectuals, and celebrity sex tapes to city planning. Here are some samples, both old and new.
I was inspired to abandon a teaching career for a writing one by sheer force of admiration. I had it bad: an egghead swoon for the inventive publications that, in the late 1990s, put brainy ideas journalism back onto the map. Much respect to the writers and editors of Feed, Suck and Lingua Franca especially.
Before moving to New York, I was a producer at the EMMY- and WEBBY-winning ZeD, a prescient and pathbreaking multiplatform (TV/web) arts and culture programme aired by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation that is considered a precursor to YouTube and the model for Al Gore's Current TV. Some on-air spots earned me immortality in anatomically-correct doll form, thanks to a fan of the show. This spawned an ill-advised spate of stop-motion animated shorts about "Super Jeffie." TV is strange.
In the New York area I also contribute time to 826 NYC and the Taproot Foundation.
I am accompanied in these travels by a professional ladykiller named Dante.
Fin.
