2006 and earlier writing

This isn't everything, but a good indication of what I've been doing for a few years:

2006

(In the Hoods from 2006)
A Chicago accent, 12/4/2006
Hope shopping, 10/30/2006
Scarface to Potbelly? 8/7/2006

June 5, Focus Commercial Real Estate. In The Hood column: Target: tax dollars (pdf, 76k).

March 30: Focus Commercial Real Estate. In The Hood column: The Center of Boystown (pdf, 464k).

(Longer pieces)

July 10, News. Vesperate Times (pdf, 184k)

June 12, Focus Intrapreneurship. Throwing out ideas . . . and envelopes (pdf, 132k); Where new thinking is the only option (pdf, 136k).

May 10, (chicagobusiness.com only) Midas Annual Report Update (pdf, 68k).

May 8: Focus Body Biz. Do you have hefty offspring? Read this (pdf, 384k).

April 17: Focus Private Companies. Still Working on the Railroad (pdf, 328k).

April 10: Focus Dicey Situations. When Alcohol Calls (pdf, 360k); Once bitten, twice shy (pdf, 244k).

January 16: Focus Clubs. 2006 Club List (pdf, 300k).

January 2: Focus Agenda for New York. Transportation/Rail. At the center of it all: Create (pdf, 420k).

2005

October 17, Focus Most Powerful Chicago Families. Pritzker Family Profile (pdf, 508k); Jim Oberweiss Profile (pdf, 272k); Lisa Madigan Profile (pdf, 296k); Yusef Jackson Profile (pdf, 248k).

August 22, Focus Non-Profits. Companies leave, donations fall (pdf, 236k).

August 1, Focus Government. Want city work? Red tape awaits (pdf, 188k).

July 11, Focus Small Business. The plan: Improvise (pdf, 360k). Profiles of small business owners, entrepreneurs. How they went from idea to launch.

July 4, Focus Bankruptcy. Last guy you want to see (pdf, 280k). Profile of the Ira Bodenstein, US Bankruptcy Trustee.

June 27: Focus Technology. Wi-Fi for the masses? (pdf, 436k)

June 13: Focus Business Mistakes. A mess of their own (pdf, 324k). One of my favorites, story of a business mistake by Aftermath, a company that specializes in cleaning up grisly murder scenes, suicides, unattended deaths.

March 28: Focus Commercial Real Estate. Empty Spaces Abound (pdf, 65 kB)

March, 7: Focus Chicago business & social clubs. Chicago's social clubs listing: Two page spread (pdf, 168kB); Latest amenity: Your own cubicle. Tech at Chicago clubs (pdf, 168kB)

Feb. 7: Focus Technology. Calling for backup: Firms move to protect tech (pdf, 158kB)

Jan. 31: Focus Chicago's Top 30 Media Elite Chicago Media Elite Round Up: Five short bios on local media personalities (pdf, 165kB).

2006

Future Shocked (Profile of Dan Dinello, author of Technophobia) January, 690 k

Phone Home (Case Study of Firefly, handset maker for 8 to 12 year olds) January, 773 k

2005

Expert Panel (Profile of four Chicago comic book artists) January, 274k

feature stories

Wired 12.08: Singapore Wants You! The future-friendly city-state has an offer bioscientists can't refuse: unrestricted research, top-notch equipment, and limitless funds. (Just leave your chewing gum at home.) http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/12.08/singapore.html

*Upon publication I was interviewed on PRI's The World.Click here for audio

Wired 11.04: Cat on the Cutting Edge: Pet medicine is a booming business. It's also a proving ground for science that could save your life. http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/11.04/petmed.html

shorter stories

Wired 14.03: Posts, Easy as Pie: Short profile of Alex Seropian, creator of Halo and OCD pastry chef.

Wired 12.11: Start, Photo Page: Sleep With the Fishes. http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/12.11/start.html?pg=4

Play, Book Review: Jacquard's Web: How a Hand Loom Led to the Birth of the Information Age
James Essinger. http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/12.11/play.html?pg=9

Wired 12.09: Play, Book Review: In the Shadow of No Towers
Art Spiegelman. http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/12.09/play.html?pg=6

Wired 12.06: IP Atlas.An Atlas of the Free & the Unfree. http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/12.06/images/atlas_medicine.pdf

Wired 12.02: Start, Q&A: Beating Back the Next Pandemic. http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/12.02/start.html?pg=12

Wired 11.12: Play, Unplugged. http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/11.12/play.html?pg=6

Wired 11.09: Start, Minihattan. http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/11.09/start.html?pg=6

Play, Shopping Cart. What Wired staffers bought this month. http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/11.09/play.html?pg=14

Wired 11.07: Start, When Mutant Microbes Attack. http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/11.07/start.html?pg=3

Wired 11.05: Start, The High Priest of the Atari Cult. http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/11.05/start.html?pg=11

Wired 11.04: Air Ball. http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/11.04/start.html?pg=14

Wired 11.03: Obsessed , Minitank Commander. http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/11.03/start.html?pg=13

Wired 11.02: Exploded View, Splatter Happy. http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/11.02/start.html?pg=8

Wired 11.02: Obsessed, Star Man, How To Spend $60K on Home Astronomy. http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/11.02/start.html?pg=7

Wired 10.09: BORN DIGITAL: A Wired Special Report
In Vitro We Trust, Children of the Revolution. http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/10.09/borndigital.html?pg=2

Wired 10.07: Check Point Software, Building the ultimate firewall. http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/10.07/CheckPointSoftware.html

Wired 10.03: Space Station: $9 Plus Popcorn, Astronaut home movies in Imax 3-D. http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/10.03/streetcred.html?pg=4

Wired 10.01: White House Spam, To: stephanop@whitehouse.gov, Subject: POTUS jog at 4. http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/10.01/mustread.html?pg=5

Wired 9.11: HomePlug, The Gist: Smart Homes For Dummies. http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/9.11/streetcred.html?pg=12

Wired 9.09: Newt's A-List. http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/9.09/mustread.html?pg=1

Wired 9.09: The Gist: Undercover Stenographer, $50 And Up. http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/9.09/mustread.html?pg=1

Wired 9.06: The Wired Index, http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/9.06/wired_index.html?pg=43

Wired 9.06: Whirling Dervish. http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/9.06/mustread.html?pg=7

Wired 9.05: Neocontrarian.com. http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/9.05/mustread.html?pg=6

Wired 9.04: Plain, Buttered, or Huge? http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/9.04/mustread.html?pg=12

Wired 9.04: Blackhat Tricks. http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/9.04/mustread.html?pg=7

Wired 9.02: Online Privacy: US About to Come in From the Cold? http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/9.02/mustread.html?pg=4

gadget lab reviews:

Veo Mini Capture Digital Camera. http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/gadgetlab/20040127.html

Arkon LavNav Toilet Night-Light. http://wired.com/wired/archive/gadgetlab/20031202.html

Philips bCool XG1 Projector. http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/gadgetlab/20031021.html

ReadyMade Issue 14, Nov/Dec 2004, The Dealer (PDF, 1.7 meg)

Fall 2003, Local Heroes: Oakland's Little Edens (PDF, 276 k)

Fall 2001, Parking Lawns (PDF, 97 k)

January 2005, Future Bowls (PDF, 276 k)

New York Magazine

New York Magazine, February, 2006. Linkology: List of 50 top blogs as decided by Technorati

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