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Food & Food Politics:

 The Bi-Rite Stuff
COVER STORY: With a new farm in Sonoma and a new arts space in the Mission, Sam Mogannam is determined to turn his tiny grocery store into even more of a nexus of food and community.
(Edible San Francisco, Oct./Nov. 2008)


 Bar None
Clif Bar's husband-and-wife CEOs talk about being the rare independent company in the world of Big Organic.
(Grist.org, Sept. 28, 2008)

Staying Private Cost This Founder
$60 Million

That's how much Gary Erickson had to pay his former partner after he changed his mind about selling Clif Bar. Any regrets? None, he says.
(Corporate Board Member, Sept./Oct. 2008)

 Review: "Hungry City"
The current food crisis is nothing new, according to Carolyn Steel in her wide-ranging and engaging book, "Hungry City: How Food Shapes Our Lives." Cities have struggled to feed themselves since man first got sick of chasing woolly mammoths around with sticks.
(Financial Times, June 2008)

 Barren Spring
Author Claire Hope Cummings dishes the dirt on genetically modified food.
(Grist.org, August 1, 2008)


Good Cob, Bad Cob: A review of "King Corn"
(Gastronomica, Spring 2008)

Having a Ball in Tunisia
(Meatpaper, March 2008)

 Return of the Butcher Shop
The women of Avedano's in Bernal Heights are picking up tools honed by years of tradition.
(Edible San Francisco, Winter 2008)


 San Francisco city guide
Quick tips for business travelers about where to stay, where to eat, and where to see and be seen.
(Condé Nast Portfolio , April 2007)


 Infoporn
Ground Zero of the obesity epidemic? The center of your grocery store.
(Wired, December 2007)


Technology & Business:

 Craigslist, the One Thing You Won't Find For Sale on Craigslist.org
What are these people, Communists?
(Corporate Board Member, May/June 2008)


 Catching Up with Tech's Bloggers
If your stereotype of a technology blogger is nerdy young Willy Webb surreptitiously typing away in his cubicle, hit Delete.
(Corporate Board Member, May/June 2008)

 50 Top Women in Tech
COVER STORY: Fifty profiles of technology's female movers and shakers, from household-name CEOs to unknowns in academe, the space program, medical research, software, and video games.
(Corporate Board Member, March/April 2008)

 Stalled Gains for Women in Technology
The silicon ceiling hasn't risen in pace with Moore's Law.
(Corporate Board Member, March/April 2008)

 Into the Breach
A 2002 state law that requires companies to notify consumers of compromised data security has had far-reaching consequences. (Not online; download the PDF)
(Boalt Hall Transcript, Spring 2008)


The Insider's Guide to Shooting in China
Photographers share their advice about permissions, visas, politically sensitive topics, food, communication, logistical and ethical issues.
(Photo District News, June 2008)

Multimedia That Packs A Punch
Still photographer Josh Meltzer delivers experiential journalism in two minutes or less.
(Photo District News, August 2007)

PDN's PLAYERS: Computer Generated Imaging
Once feared, CGI is the technology that photographers are at last ready to embrace.
(Photo District News, May 2007)