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journalism
I've been working as a journalist and copy writer,
specializing in science, the arts, wine, and technology, since 1998.
Credits include: Wired, Red Herring, Computer World, Decanter Magazine, Card Technology, The
Outsourcing Forum, StateTech and
EdTech magazines (United States); RTE Online (Irish State television), The
Irish Times, CIRCA, The Irish Examiner, BookView Ireland, and the Farmer's
Journal (Ireland); Yahoo! News, BusinessAM, InternetWeek (UK).
Arts
An interview with leading visual art critic and SUNY
Professor, Donald Kuspit, about his new book 'The End of Art'.
[Includes a review]
http://www.themodernword.com/reviews/kuspit.html
Interview with philosopher of religion, John D Caputo
http://www.themodernword.com/features/interview_caputo.html
Interview with Canadian novelist Robert Majzels
http://www.themodernword.com/columns/cole_004.html
Science
(Wired News)
Fantastic Voyage: Departure 2009
An international team of scientists is developing what they say will
be the world's first microrobot -- as wide as two human hairs -- that can
swim through the arteries and digestive system.
http://www.wired.com/medtech/health/news/2007/01/72448
A Wheelchair That Reads
Your Mind
Patients who suffer from disease
or injury that leave them unable to move have little hope of independent
mobility. But that may be about to change. Spanish scientists have begun
work on a new brain-computer interface, or BCI, capable of converting
thought into commands that a wheelchair can execute.
http://www.wired.com/medtech/health/news/2007/01/72580
DEPTHX Robot Scours Sinkholes
A completely untethered, autonomous underwater diving robot launches
a mission this week to collect samples from a 400-foot-deep geothermal
sinkhole in Mexico.
http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/news/2007/03/72907
Bye Swarmbots, Hello Swarmanoids
Move over swarm-bots, the swarmanoid is coming. A
team at the Free University of Brussels in Belgium is embarking on a
42-month research project to build and test a 60-strong swarm of small,
autonomous robots -- the swarmanoid
-- capable of collaborating in 3-D environments.
http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/news/2006/11/72176
Technology
Taming The Invoice Jungle
eWEEK, August 2006
http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,2007102,00.asp
Ireland's Digital Woes
EdTech Magazine, Summer 2006
http://edtech.texterity.com/article/20060607/32/
Smart Cards Track Kids’ Food Choices -July, 2005
http://www.cardtechnology.com/cgi-bin/readstory.pl?story=20050715CTDN213.xml
Tech Insight: GIS and GPS technology in
the classroom - Spring 2005
EdTech Magazine
http://edtech.texterity.com/article/200502/32/
Feature on the evolving role of the public sector CIO for StateTech Magazine
(Summer 2005):
http://www.statetechmag.com
(requires free registration --feel free to use my isiwork @ hotmail .com (no
spaces) login (no password required) to skip this process and gain access to
some of my articles)
Wine
Wine Enthusiast Magazine
A
team of Italian and Syrian archaeologists
has uncovered evidence of extensive vine cultivation in the ancient western
Syrian city of Qatna.
http://www.winemag.com/ME2/dirmod.asp?sid=&nm=&type=Publishing&mod=
Publications%3A%3AArticle&mid=8F3A7027421841978F18BE895F87F791&tier=4&
id=8D8F77F5DE154780820FA8C92E743875
Resveratrol Study
http://www.winemag.com/ME2/dirmod.asp?sid=&nm=&type=Publishing&mod=
Publications%3A%3AArticle&mid=8F3A7027421841978F18BE895F87F791
&tier=4&id=4A81D9DA43164D61ADDAD7323EC90275
A selection of Decanter Magazine news stories
Canada's Stratus wins
plaudits for massive energy cuts
"May cause drowsiness"-
melatonin found in wine grapes
Parker 'backlash'- survey
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