PUBLISHED: Flagship in a Box
My next piece for Popular Mechanics is up! Read on to learn how the military is developing command and control units to replace to all-important flagship of yore. Lashed to the USS Bataan’s crowded hangar deck, a group of four sea containers provides complete command and control access for a commanding Naval officer. It also gives [...]
Medivac IM
Yay! The first story from Haiti is online at Popular Mechanics; click through to learn how the Navy coordinated with the Army to streamline medivac flights… by using a simple, internet chatroom. Somewhere, Steve Case is smiling. 60s on the beach.
East River Panorama
A three-frame manual panorama of the view a half-block from my apartment; 30" exposures, just after dusk. Click through to flickr to view in the "original" size (actually 1/2 the original file size, which is a whopping 18K x 4K pixels).
Mo Rocca Digs In to Cover the Battle for the iPhone
OH MY GOD they’re still waiting in line. I had the honor and pleasure of producing this segment for both Switched.com and the Mo Rocca 180 show. It’s tough to hold the camera when you’re trying your hardest not to laugh.
Booyah. 2 million +
Yeah, a lot of you have seen this by now. 2,303,128 of you, that is.
Tech Blog Payola
The good news: This latest news of unsavory editorial practices among a small subset of tech review sites is unlikely to draw the FCCs crosshairs towards the internet. The bad news: A small subset of tech review sites are practicing dabbling in some unsavory we’ll-give-you-edit-copy-if-you-buy-an-ad schemes — as in, web edit payola. Tech Daily went [...]
Sounds good.
Earlier today I added a small collection of my favorite episodes of the Popular Mechanics Show (you can find all the shows here), the podcast I created, hosted and produced for 28 episodes. Included in my best-of picks: Tucker Carlson spreads the gospel of spudgunning; Kurt Loder and Instapundit.com’s Glenn Reynolds chat about the future [...]
Scooped!
We’re going to get rolling here any day now. I promise. In the meantime, have a look at this video (I produced) of Microsoft’s new Surface computer. This could be a case study for web/print/multimedia coordination. As of right now, the PopularMechanics.com story (written by my extremely talented former co-worker Glenn Derene) on which this [...]





