A selection of the news and feature articles I have written. Feature-length pieces are in bold.

A limited selection of links to movie, game and book reviews and other consumer writings is also available on a separate page. More recently I have become an academic and have written a number of academic papers.

Alas, most of my work for Personal Computer World and earlier publications like Punch was not put online and is no longer available.

I wrote several pieces for The Net magazine's launch issue and produced most of the "Help Button" on its (now defunct) web site (explaining key Net skills to novices). To find all of my writing for New Scientist in 1996-1997, follow this link.

2010 Update - Due to redesigns of newspaper and magazine websites, many of the pieces listed here (principally those from The Telegraph and ITN Online) are no longer available on the web (except via the Internet Archive). I have linked some key articles (in italics) directly to their cached Internet Archive page.

Date	Publication	Description
July 2000 - Feb 2001	Citizensconnection	Campaign diary: Newington Green Action Group (four parts)
1 June 2000	Mindjack	You Are Here
24 Jan 2000	The Industry Standard	God Save the Queen's Assets
13 Jan 2000	The Telegraph	US highlights dangers of online medicines
13 Jan 2000	The Telegraph	Browsers bark, but there's no bite
16 Dec 1999	The Telegraph	BBC web ads mooted
16 Dec 1999	The Telegraph	Site offers free phone calls - to anywhere in the world
2 Dec 1999	The Telegraph	Sounds of the Net - launch of heardon.com
2 Dec 1999	The Telegraph	NetAid falls short of hopes
15 Nov 1999	The Industry Standard	The Digital Dole - Cheap leased computers for the poor
26 Jul 1999	The Industry Standard	ISP Anarchy in the UK
25 Jul 1999	ZDNet News	Kosovo refugee site runs into trouble
24 Jun 1999	The Telegraph	Ads when you boot up
24 Jun 1999	The Telegraph	Trimble lawyers target Amazon over book sale
17 Jun 1999	The Telegraph	Breaking Into Film - film piracy on the Internet
10 Jun 1999	The Telegraph	The Internet Never Forgets
10 Jun 1999	The Telegraph	Telecomms Boycott a Partial Success
7 Jun 1999	Wired News	Striking for Cheaper Phone Rates
27 May 1999	The Telegraph	New email path boasts top security
14 May 1999	ZDNet News	Larouche site behind spy flap
13 May 1999	The Telegraph	Boost for MP3 as Net music link
13 May 1999	The Telegraph	Surf the Net at escape velocity
1 May 1999	Wired News	Free ISPs storm Europe
29 Apr 1999	The Telegraph	Scramble to offer bargain Net access
26 Apr 1999	ITN Online	Sinister web of hate on the Internet
22 Apr 1999	The Telegraph	Free net access, PCs and phone calls
21 Apr 1999	ZDNet News	Oxfam nixes Kosovo 'spam' campaign
15 Apr 1999	The Telegraph	Salon and The Well merge
2 Mar 1999	ITN Online	Labour fails in online schools pledge
27 Feb 1999	ITN Online	Privacy concerns over Intel's new Pentium processor
18 Feb 1999	Wired News	Free ISPs taking over in the UK
11 Feb 1999	The Telegraph	Anti-abortion site thrown off by ISP
27 Jan 1999	ITN Online	Settlement hopes in Net music row
18 Jan 1999	Salon	The Telephone toll - the cost of net access in Europe
23 Dec 1998	BBC Education	History of Computing - Hands On Science
19 Oct 1998	BBC News Online	'God of the Internet' is dead
24 Sep 1998	BBC News Online	Directory enquiries going online
8 Sep 1998	BBC News Online	Born to be rude
3 Sep 1998	BBC News Online	New net scheme from BT
31 Aug 1998	BBC News Online	Net use makes you sad
24 Aug 1998	BBC News Online	Council axes computers
6 Aug 1998	BBC News Online	E-mail could be used as evidence
29 Jul 1998	BBC News Online	Governments trying to censor the net
18 Jun 1998	BBC News Online	Email address snobbery
20 May 1998	BBC News Online	Net value of a connected community
11 May 1998	BBC News Online	Euro sparks computing crisis
15 Apr 1998	BBC News Online	Connecting to the future
2 Sep 1996	Salon	Feature: The US Wide Web How US web sites ignore the world

 

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