Technology
Dream HDTVs on a Budget at Forbes.com
HDTV For Every Dorm Room And Budget at Forbes.com
Online Video on a Budget at Forbes.com
LAPTOP Magazine | Ultimate Mobility | Pocket Camcorders
Blu-ray on a Budget at Forbes.com
Best Laptops for Business Travelers at Forbes.com
Best Digital Cameras To Take on Vacation at Forbes.com
GPS For Dads and Grads at Forbes.com
LAPTOP Magazine | Mobile Gadget Guide
Streaming Internet Movies at Home at Forbes.com
HD Camcorders For Any Budget at Forbes.com
Best HDTV Bargains at Forbes.com
Picture-Perfect HDTV at Forbes.com
Super Bowl HDTVs at Forbes.com
Surviving the Switch to Digital TV at Forbes.com
LAPTOP Magazine | Gadget Gift Guide 2008
Blu-Ray Holiday Primer at Forbes.com
HDTV Holiday Deals at Forbes.com
Ask This Before You Buy an HDTV at Forbes.com
Seeking a Greener HDTV at Forbes.com
LAPTOP Magazine | 52 Great Mobile Bargains | Camcorders
I Want My HDTV at Forbes.com
LAPTOP Magazine | Ultimate Mobility | Budget Cameras, Digital Camcorders
Watching the Web on HDTV: Interview on WTOP Radio
Watching the Web on HDTV at Forbes.com
Quoted in the San Antonio News-Express
Pure Digital Flip Video Ultra Review at LAPTOP Magazine
Get That Shot! Action Photography at Forbes.com
Canon Vixia HF100 Review at LAPTOP Magazine
Digital Cameras for the Road at Forbes.com
Playing To Win On HDTV at Forbes.com
Camcorders Go High Def at Forbes.com
Sharpening Up Your New HDTV at Forbes.com
Top TVs For Watching The Super Bowl at Forbes.com
Top Deals on Digital Cameras at Forbes.com
HDTVs You Can Give or Hide Away at Forbes.com
Jaw-Dropping TV Bargains at Forbes.com
Eyes Wide Open at Forbes.com
Deconstructing the Sony eReader Advertisement
Quotations Becoming Quotidian: New York Times
Notable Quotable II: New York Times Edition

About»

I'm a Boston-based writer and editor, covering technology, books, and music. My work has appeared in publications like The Boston Phoenix, PopMatters, ALARM Magazine and Forbes.com.


Recent Posts


Book Reviews»

The Crusades
The Friends of Eddie Coyle
Duel at Dawn
American Lives: A Reader
Cartographies of Time
The Fourth Part of the World
Collected Stories of Lydia Davis
2009 Favorites
The Roman Forum
Boston Noir
Ulysses and Us
The Inheritance of Rome
Marcus Aurelius: A Life
The Landmark Herodotus
The Evolution of God
Meriwether Lewis
Judas: A Biography
You Are Here
Paris From The Ground Up
How the Irish Invented Slang

Music Reviews»

Interview: Menomena
Interview: Matmos
The Fall
Sam Amidon
Red Sparowes
These New Puritans
Clogs
Pit Er Pat
RJD2
2009 Top Tracks
2009 Favorites
Interview: Liars
Trans Am
The Black Heart Procession
Fool's Gold
Castanets
Wild Beasts
Yo La Tengo
Zu
Robert Pollard
Pissed Jeans
Sax Ruins
The Horse’s Ha
Sonic Youth

Technology»

Eco-Friendly HDTV
Travel Digital Cameras
Take Great Action Photos
Blu-Ray Primer
Tune Your HDTV
Streaming Internet Video
Best Blu-Ray Players
Best Business Laptops
Best Pocket Camcorders

Notations»

Movie Review:
Inception

The new ALARM Magazine website is live, and it looks awesome. Stay tuned for my features on Matmos and Liars.

Toby Lester, author of The Fourth Part of the World, writes about America’s naming in the Globe.

FEED Magazine, which I credit as an inspiration, closed in 2001. They just put their archives back online.

Manute Bol invented the phrase “My Bad.” Or not?


In Rotation

I Have Always Loved the Holy Tongue by Anthony Grafton and Joanna WeinbergWhat Hath God Wrought by Daniel Walker Howe

Christianity - The First Three Thousand Years by Diarmaid MacCullochAge of Fracture by Daniel T. Rodgers

Eden on the Charles by Michael RawsonBattle Cry of Freedom by James McPherson

Menomena - MinesThe Fall - Your Future Our Clutter

The Crusades by Thomas AsbridgeThe Friends of Eddie Coyle - George V Higgins

American Psycho by Bret Easton EllisDuel at Dawn by Amir Alexander

Cartographies of Time: A History of the Timeline by Anthony Grafton and Daniel RosenbergThe Fourth Part of the World by Toby Lester

Sam Amidon - I See The SignLiars - Sisterworld