“The E Decade: Data Smog 10 Years Later”
Slate, July, 2007

“The Survivalist”
Slate, September, 2006
(The #1 most-read story in Slate for all of 2006.)

“The Memory Hole”
New York Times Op-Ed, November 3, 2006

“A Growing Web of Watchers Builds a Surveillance Society”
New York Times, January 25, 2006

“If You Build It...”
Gourmet, May, 2006

“Imitation of Life”
Gourmet, April, 2005

Definition and sourcing of "data smog"
In 2004, my original term was added to the OED,
earning me a tiny speck of immortality

“Watching You: The World of High-Tech Surveillance”
National Geographic, November, 2003

Commentaries on NPR's "All Thing's Considered":

“Counting the World's Information” (October 19, 2000)
“Email Urgency” (April 11, 2000)
“The Glare of Disclosure ” (February 4, 1998)
“A Nation of Button Smackers" (August 5, 1997)
“The Problem with Hypertext ” (May 14, 1997)
“Data Smog ” (April 3, 1997)

“Biocapitalism: What price the genetic revolution?”
Harper’s, December, 1997

“Hating Gates: The Culture of Microsoft Bashing”
Cover story for The New Republic, January, 1998

“Think-tank Warfare
A critique of CNN’s “Crossfire,” on the occasion of the show’s 15th anniversary.
Salon, June, 1997

“Money + Science = Ethics Problems on Campus ”

“Toolmaker, Brain Builder”
A review of Feng Hsiung Hsu’s Behind Deep Blue: Building the Computer that Defeated the Chess Champion
The American Scholar, Spring, 2003

“A Kopeck For His Thoughts: As Communism Crumbles, American Journalists Look Inside Gorby’s Head and Feel the Hurt”
SPY Magazine, June, 1990

I wrote a column for SPY called “Ethics, Inc” from 1994-1996.
Here are all eleven columns:
• “Investing in Our Youth,” July/August, 1994
• “Dumber Indemnity: Coming to Term,” Sept./Oct, 1994
• “Re-education Through Labor,” Nov./Dec., 1994
• “Sustainable PR,” Jan./Feb., 1995
• “Human Cargo,” March/April, 1995
• “The Sourcer’s Apprentice,” May/June, 1995
• “Fecal Soup,” July/August, 1995
• “Winston Smith, Call Your Office,” Sept./Oct., 1995
• “Rulers of the Game,” Nov./Dec., 1995
• “Detain Long and Prosper,” Jan./Feb., 1996
• “Pushing the Envelope,” March/April, 1996

Profile of Peter St. George-Hyslop
Time Canada, May 26, 2003

“Data Smog: Surviving the Information Glut”
Technology Review, May/June, 1997

“To Mac or Not to Mac”
Technology Review, March/April 1998

“Stealing Calm: An Ode to Radio”
Technology Review, July/August, 1998

“More is Less”
Wired Magazine

“Behold the Toys of Tomorrow”
The Atlantic online, January 7, 1999
(This is a link, not a download).

“Why Liberals Still Can’t Compete with Conservatives in the TV Talk Show War”
The Washington Post, August 8, 1993

“THE PICTURES: Star Treatment for ‘Men in Black’s’ Six-Legged Extras”
The New Yorker, 1997

“DEPT. OF TIMING: It’s Never a Good Moment to Ask Americans to Turn off The TV”
The New Yorker, May 10, 1999

“Nonprofiteers: How to lobby like a corporation and pay taxes like a charity”
The Washington Monthly, December 1991

“Death of a Comic”
An appreciation of Phil Hartman, in the wake of his murder on May 28, 1998, published in Feed magazine the following day

“Political Aims Will Stay Bush’s Hand”
Op-ed for The Cleveland Plain Dealer shortly before the First Gulf War, 1991.
(Hands down, the dumbest thing I’ve ever published).