2010 - present: TechCrunch columnist

Highlights:

• Jan 2016: Why Bitcoin Matters.
• Oct 2015: I Do Not Want Your Stupid App.
• Apr 2015: Porn, Sex, Tech, And Cindy Gallop.
• Feb 2015: Beware The Pretty People.
• Jan 2015: This Industry Is Still Completely Ridiculous.
• Oct 2014: You Too May Be A Victim Of Developaralysis.
• Jun 2014: Welcome To Extremistan! Please Check Your Career At The Door.
• Jun 2014: Dear Clients, Please Stop: Ten Ways Founders Sabotage Themselves.
• Mar 2014: Enter The Blockchain: How Bitcoin Can Turn The Cloud Inside Out.
• Mar 2014: This Industry Is Completely Ridiculous. Let’s Hope It Stays That Way.
• Jan 2014: Such DFW. Very Orwell. So Doge. Wow.
• Dec 2013: It’s A Wonderful Life, For A Few Of Us.
• Jun 2013: After Your Job Is Gone.
• Jun 2012: In Five Years, Most Africans Will Have Smartphones.
• Aug 2011: Welcome To The Panopticon.
• Jun 2011: This Is Where The Magic Happens.
• May 2011: Why The New Guy Can't Code.
• Mar 2011: How The Mainstream Media Is Failing Us With Its Nuclear Hysteria.
• Feb 2011: The End Of History, Part II.

2005 - present: Magazine feature writer

Highlights:

• Chatbot Fail. In which I am skeptical. The Walrus, April 2016.
• We're All Going To Be Rich. On Akoha, Austin Hill, and the world's forthcoming reputation economy. Reader's Digest, March 2010.
• Free Delivery: birth in the Americas' poorest country. The Walrus, May 2008.
• Apocalypse Soon: the future of reading. An analysis of the earthquake that will overturn today's publishing industry. The Walrus, September 2007. Selected for inclusion in the classic Canadian textbook The Act of Writing.
• In the Shadow of Doom. An article about a killer lake in Central Africa. Yes, I said "killer lake." Read it now or wait for the inevitable disaster movie. The Walrus, May 2006.
• Wiring the War Zone. In May 2005, I spent a week in Iraq researching two cipherpunks who travelled there after the war to reconnect the country to the Internet. Wired, May 2005. Later, Blood, Bullets, Bombs and Bandwidth, a 4,000-word expansion of the Iraq piece, found a readership on Slashdot.

2009 - 2011: Columnist at Maisonneuve magazine

Highlights:

• What's wrong with Africa. The pros and cons of fatalism, and the cons of most aid and NGOs. Selected for inclusion in the seventh edition of the textbook Canadian Content.
• Can A Video Game Make You Cry? Speculation about the future of the world's newest storytelling medium, and a paean to Grand Theft Auto IV.

2008 - 2011: "World Fast Forward" at The Walrus

Highlights:

• Burning With Desire. Black Rock City: a testbed for the real world?
• How Google Unconquered The World. Call me a prophet, but I got this one right.
• One Laptop Per Child: What Went Wrong. Its fundamental problems are twofold: 1. It was a bad idea to begin with. 2. The XO laptop is a piece of crap.
• Big Brother Is Watching Them. OK? In which I reflect on having been mugged at gunpoint.
• Better Dying Through Chemistry. How to ruin entire nations and destroy untold millions of lives.

2009 - 2011: Tor.com contributor

Highlights:

• Fury, absurdity, sorcery: Wizard of the Crow by Ngugi wa Thiong'o
• Time Travel Times Two: Jack Finney's Time and Again
• Magic realism: not fantasy. Sorry.
• SF gems from the literary ghetto

2007 - 2009: Occasional blogger at The Guardian's books blog.

Highlights:

• The newly graphic novelist.

2004 - present: Occasional essayist

Highlights:

• Genocide in L.A. isn't really about genocide in L.A. Unpublished. October 2005.
• But Enough About Me, Let's Talk About What You Can Do For Me. Explains how not to write, and why NaNoWriMo is for suckers. Unpublished. October 2004.