I'm a technology journalist.

My work has appeared in Electronic Component News, eWeek, the former FierceEnterprise, IEEE The Institute, Law Technology News, Light Reading, Mobile Enterprise, Technology Review, TMC Labs, and Wireless Week. I started my career at the Home News Tribune.

I'm a computer historian.

@ I co-founded and serve as president of a user group, MARCH [Mid-Atlantic Retro Computing Hobbyists]. MARCH activities include administering an email list, hosting the annual Vintage Computer Festival East, and operating a bricks-and-mortar computer museum at the InfoAge Science Center in Wall, N.J.

@ I participate in the Society for the History of Technology's Special Interest Group for Computers, Information, and Society.

@ My primary expertise is the history of portable computers. I was an adviser for the mobile computing portion of the Computer History Museum's "Revolution" exhibit. I often serve as a resource for other historians, media [Modern Marvels, MSNBC, International Journal of Mobile Human-Computer Interaction], and students. I perform patent research as a contractor via VintageTech.

@ I've been an author, adviser, and/or expert source on computer history topics for 4BC News Talk 1116, the Asbury Park Press, ArsTechnica, Bankrate.com (also via MSN Money and Fox Business), BBC Radio, CNN [alternate link], Esquire, IEEE's The Institute, the John Mauchly estate, Minyanville, News 12 New Jersey [alternate link], Reuters, and Slashdot TV.

@ I frequently lecture and/or exhibit at hobbyist events such as Hackers On Planet Earth, Maker Faire, New Jersey Science & Engineering Festival, Philadelphia Science Carnival, Trenton Computer Festival, and Vintage Computer Festival.

@ I published a weekly e-newsletter, Technology Rewind [formerly Computer Collector], from Jan. 2004 to March 2006. In that role I was cited by BusinessWeek TV, eWeek, IEEE History Center [pdf], and TMCnet. Click here for the newsletter archives. Later I blogged for Computerworld.

My interests include running, civil liberties, media freedom, fighting cancer, the New [Jersey!] Giants, New York Yankees, Springsteen, and Miatas.

@ American Civil Liberties Union, Committee to Protect Journalists, Electronic Frontier Foundation, Freedom Forum, Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press, Reporters Without Borders

@ Cycle for Survival

@ Giants, Yankees

@ Backstreets, Greasy Lake

@ Miata.net, MiataTurbo