Examples of my written work from InfoWorld, PC World, and CNET appear here. InfoWorld's Editor's Letter appeared weekly, while the Plugged Incolumn ran monthly in PC World from November 2002 through October 2005. Buzz Meter was a weekly column I conceived of, developed, and launched for CNET in September 2001. I stopped writing it in May 2002, when I left the company. CNET Insider was a fortnightly column that ran throughout 2000. The column had been launched by my predecessor at CNET about two months before I took it over.
Digital Dispatch was CNET.com's most prominently featured weekly newsletter; I had the pleasure of writing it for nearly 2-1/2 years, from January 2000 through May 2002. A general purpose teaser for CNET's editorial offerings, Digital Dispatch boasts a circulation of more than 1 million subscribers. I have mercifully chosen not to include all 140-plus newsletters I wrote, though you'll find a healthy enough sampling here to get the basic flavor. Many of the Dispatch's include a Top Ten list that pokes fun at the techie universe. The lists, which were very popular with readers, run at the bottom of the newsletter.
My monthly Computer Shopper Magazine column ran for five months, also ending when I left CNET. It also
ran on CNET.com, under the general heading of CNET Insider, though it bears no
relation to the earlier column of that name. In the online world, sometimes you
just need to use any available template; the old Insider template was well
suited to the cause.