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Since I began working in journalism in 1990, I have written for many publications (about half of them defunct, whatever that says). I have contributed with varying degress of regularity to (among others): Scientific American, the British Guardian and Daily Telegraph newspapers. I also have a history with New Scientist, and the Times Higher Education Supplement (not indexed here because you can't really access its articles online). On the Web, I do a regular interviews column for The Inquirer, occasional pieces for Comment is Free and , and most of ZDNet UK's, book reviews. You can find my weekly column, net.wars, here every Friday around lunchtime GMT or at Guy Kewney's NewsWirelessNet. For the first few years of its life, net.wars ran on Guy's site and at The Inquirer; the archive has its own page. I have written for Wired, Wired News, Salon, TheFeature.com, Smart Business (formerly PC/Computing), Mobile Business, the UK's Personal Computer World, PC Magazine UK, What PC?, PC Direct, and ComputerActive; for six months in 2000-2001 I did daily financial news covering the dot-com boom for a European new media finance site, Tornado Insider. If people remember one piece I've written, it is alt.scientology.war, which ran in Wired in 1995. My books have their own page.

In 1987, I founded the UK's Skeptic magazine, which continues under the sterling leadership of Chris French at Goldsmith College. I write a column for it and also for The Philosophers' Magazine; links to some of the latter are here.

In 2006-2007 I also: blogged for Blindside; wrote the Mini Rough Guide to Designing Your Future (PDF, 5MB); and appeared occasionally as an expert commentator on Channel Five news.

In 2008-2010 I also: did some writing and research work for Kable, contributed irregularly to the Guardian's Comment is Free site, The Register, Infosecurity magazine, The H, the BBC's Web site, and have been a frequent contributor to Daily Tennis. Also published, in May 2010: Why Statues Weep: the Best of The Skeptic.

I have appeared on many TV and radio programs on both paranormal and Internet-related topics. Recent appearances include the BBC's Newsnight, BBC 24, and Sky News. A few recent clips are here.

I am a long-standing member of the executive committee of the Association of British Science Writers, the advisory council of Privacy International, and Open Rights Group.

You can read all this again in my professional bio, or you can read the twisted version in my personal bio.

What follows are (or, sadly, in many cases were) links to as much of my work as I can find on the Web. All dates are American format, and articles under each publication heading appear in reverse chronological order. If a publication has only a few entries, that doesn't necessarily mean I wrote only those few articles for it; it may simply mean those articles aren't on the Net.


Some recent stories

From the Guardian Comment is Free (UK):

From the (UK) Guardian:

Note: Most of these articles are readily accessible; however some of the Technobiles are on the media pages, which are behind registration. Due to the recession and the changing newspaper industry, the Guardian dropped the axe on freelances in August 2009 and moved the Technology section online-only in early 2010.

From the Daily Telegraph:

(Note (5/14/04):  the Telegraph insists on registration before you can view all but the most recent articles, but there's no charge. All the pre-2000 articles seem to have been removed from the site; the URLs have been left in even though they don't work.

Starting Out pieces have their own page.

From the Independent:

From New Scientist:

From Scientific American:

(Note (11/27/09):  Scientific American's site is mostly pay-to-view for more than the first few paragraphs of an article.  The starred articles, however, are full versions.)

From New Statesman:

From The Register:

(Note: you can always find my full output for The Register, in reverse chronological order, here.)

From The Philosophers' Magazine:

From IT Expert Magazine:

From Infosecurity Magazine:

From V3.co.uk:

From ZDNetUK:

(Note:: ZDNet UK book reviews have their own page)

From Chairman's Network:

From Reason magazine:

From Daily Tennis:

From Salon:

From Wired:

From Application Development Advisor (UK):

From Wired News:

(You can always get the full 2004-and-later list of articles I've done for Wired News here.)

From TheFeature.com

From Smart Business (formerly PC/Computing):

From IntellectualCapital.com

From PC Magazine (UK):

From FirstPersonGlobal.com:

From IT Week:

From PC Direct (UK):

From the Netizen:

From Personal Computer World (UK):

From Skeptical Inquirer:

From the Wall Street Journal Europe (Convergence):

From siliconalleyreporter

From Business Computer World

From What PC? and Software

From Networker (at USC)

From Demon Dispatches

Miscellanea

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