Keeping Secrets (Slate)
A simple prescription for keeping Google's records out of government hands.

Hooking Up (Forbes)
What to about mobile innovation.

Leggo My Ego (Slate)
Google Print and the Other Culture War.

Foreign Exchange (Slate)
Should the Supreme Court care what other countries think?

Filter Future (Slate)
China's Bid to Divide the Internet.

Harry Potter (Slate)
and the International Order of Copyright.

World Weed (Slate)
Is the WTO a Stoner's Best Friend?

The Fat Cat (Technology & Culture)

Essays

Selected short articles, mostly written for Slate Magazine.

A Dumpling Manifesto (Slate)
Why Americans Must Demand Better

The Wrong Tail (Slate)
How to Turn a Powerful Idea into a Dubious Theory of Everything

Can Wiki Travel?
Experiments in relying on the web for travel.

World Wide Sundance
How are good independent films found?

Ma Bell is Back - Should you be Afraid?
We're back to the 1970s in more ways than one.

Copycat (Slate)
Can China Create Its Own Hollywood?

How to Lose Friends and Alienate People
(MSN / CNET)
The perils of "value-added" product design.

Digital Borders (Legal Affairs)
Why borders persist in the internet age.

Network Neutrality: Competition, Innovation, and Nondiscriminatory Access
Testimony before the House Committee on the Judiciary Telecom & Antitrust Task Force, April 24, 2006.

Holy Grail Wars (Slate)
The latest battle over The Da Vinci Code

Weapons of Business Destruction (Slate)
How a tiny little "patent troll" got BlackBerry in a headlock (2006).