Some selections from my life as a writer:

While my day job is with The Washingtonian, I do a fair amount of writing for other publications on topics of special interest to me, particularly technology and politics. I do a little work with Wired magazine on tech/politics issues (here is one piece I did about datamining and microtargeting in politics and a piece I did on Tom Friedman’s Hot, Flat, and Crowded). My magnum opus on Barack Obama’s 2008 internet campaign (PDF) was published in Infonomics Magazine. Also related to the 2008 election, here’s an op-ed I did in the Washington Post, Don’t Know Their Yahoo From Their YouTube, and one I did for The New York Times, Text the Vote.

At The Washingtonian, I write about a wide variety of subjects, from my 2009 roundup of Washington’s Tech Titans to my two-part 2008 profile of the FBI director, The Ultimate G-Man: Robert Mueller Remakes the FBI, to my 2006 forward-looking profile of the junior U.S. Senator from Illinois, The Legend of Barack Obama. I wrote about datamining and microtargeting in They Have Your Number and have twice done the magazine’s quadrennial list of Washington’s 50 Top Journalists.  From 2005 until 2010, I also edited the front-of-the-book Capital Comment section, doing little interviews with counterinsurgency expert David Kilcullen, restaurant legend Mel Krupin, internet co-founder and Google guru Vint Cerf, and Slate’s Dear Prudence, and covering gossipy topics like possible Cabinet picks, galas, and even Michelle Obama’s fashion.

In 2005, I founded the blog FishbowlDC, where I blogged regularly for a year-and-a-half. In 2004, at the conclusion of the Dean campaign, I wrote a commentary for VPR about grassroots politics. I’ve written regularly for Harvard Magazine over the years, where in college I was an undergraduate Ledecky fellow.

Going even further back, here’s the full collection of my articles from The Harvard Crimson in college. A few of my favorites: The obituary of a former Harvard police chief; my treatise on campus security after 9/11; a look at Larry Summers’ first day as Harvard’s president after we first broke word of his selection months before; an examination of the famed Harvard Management Corporation, which runs the University endowment; my narrative of the presidential search itself; my afternoon shooting with HUPD and the day-in-the-life that I spent with them; my on-the-street piece from Nashville during Al Gore’s 2000 election; a look at the Class of 1950; a look at the phenomenon of Natalie Portman at Harvard; a silly look at the guy who puts the slogans on those candy Valentine’s Day hearts; and, the first major story that I followed for the Crimson during the fall of my freshman year, the so-called “Yard Burglar.”