Books
- Dungeons and Dreamers: A Story of How Computer Games Created a Global Community: A cultural history of computer gaming’s social communities with co-author Brad King, this was published by McGraw-Hill/Osborne in 2003. The second edition (updated, and heavily re-edited) was published by Carnegie-Mellon’s ETC Press in March 2014. ——> (Buy the book)
Articles
A highly incomplete, usually outdated list:
Wired: Three-part series on the opening of CERN’s Large Hadron Collider (LHC)
- One: Subatomic Inferno under the Alps
- Two: Squarks, Bosons and Zinos, Oh My!
- Three: Physics Frontier Goes Euro
CNET: How Sony Failed to Connect, Again (an inside look at the collapse of Sony’s music player ambitions)
CNET: How Label-Backed P2P was Born (the story of an unlikely alliance between P2P rebels and major label execs)
CNET: A Novelist Turned Gaming Innovator (profile of Sean Stewart, a novelist who helped give early alternate reality games a literary cast)
CNET: Broadband — Breaking the Digital Gridlock (a four-part series on the politics and technological potential of next-generation broadband networks in the United States)
Technology Review: A Smarter Web (a look at the development and potential of semantic web technology)