Portfolio

Selected Journalism and Book Reviews

• BOOK REVIEW: Writing the Revolution: Wikipedia and the online battle over facts, FT Weekend, November 2022
• How the BBC can create a better digital public sphere, openDemocracy, July 2016
• Now is the time to defend the public’s right to know, openDemocracy, November 2015
• BOOK REVIEW How To Build A Girl by Caitlin Moran, boinboing.net, September 2014
• BOOK REVIEW The Circle by Dave Eggers, Arc (New Scientist)
• BOOK REVIEW The Zero Marginal Cost Society by Jeremy Rifkin, Arc (New Scientist)
• Governance By Algorithm: Big Data, The NSA & A Sinister Future, The Quietus, December 2013
• Why Bloomsday Is Special This Year, The Atlantic, June 2012
• Drones in the hands of the paparazzi? It’s an ethics and privacy minefield, Guardian, January 2012
• Why I signed the WikiLeaks NDA, New Statesman, May 2011
• Excerpt from Barefoot Into Cyberspace, Index On Censorship, August 2011
• The freedom cloud, openDemocracy, March 2011
• NightJack case shatters web anonymity, Guardian, June 2009
• The Database Tyranny, New Statesman, April 2009
• Your ISP is watching you, Guardian, February 2009
• We all need digital privacy, Prospect, November 2008
• The internet’s fading promise, openDemocracy, May 2007
• We Are The Web, openDemocracy, April 2007
• The Great Firewall of China, openDemocracy, May 2005
• Complete Archive of my columns for the New Statesman 2005-2009, one of the first regular columns in the UK press to bring geek culture to a mainstream political audience.
• Meet Mr Rights, Guardian, May 2004

Books

Barefoot Into Cyberspace: Adventures in search of techno-Utopia (2011)

• Reviews and press in the Guardian, The Independent, New Humanist, BBC 5Live
• Shortlisted for the MsLexia Memoir Award
• Flash-published by a group of amateur book hackers (read why)

A Guide to the Internet for Human Rights Defenders (2014)

• Originally commissioned by Global Partners Digital in partnership with the Ford Foundation

Interviews

I love doing interviews for print and radio. Please see this page for a selection of the tech luminaries I have interviewed over the course of my career, including Sir Tim Berners-Lee, Lawrence Lessig and Julian Assange.