Published works

Here are some of my clips in magazines, online, and on the radio:

FAST COMPANY:
How Healthcare Non-Profit Living Goods Learned a Lesson from Avon Ladies (Dec 2010)
Empowering Women, One Entrepreneur at a Time (Nov 2010)
How the Omidyar Network Pumps Up Non-Profits (Nov 2010)
Social VC Nancy Pfund: For-Profit Do-Gooder (Nov 2010)
Impact Investor: Finance Guru Ron Cordes is Pointing Billions of Dollars in Better Directions(Nov 2010)
When Having the Right People is Wrong: Kevin Jones (Nov 2010)
Social VC Nancy Pfund (Nov 2010)
Have Your Chocolate and Fund It Too: A New Vision for Microloans (Oct 2010)
Investing in Post-Conflict Zone Start-Ups Just Might Save the World (Oct 2010)
How Anna Elliot's Bamyan Media Used Reality TV to Help Entrepreneurs in Afghanistan (Oct 2010)
5 Ways iPad's Pulse App Creators Applied Design Thinking to their Business (Sept 2010)

BOING BOING: 
The Last Hospice
The birthing of Estee Longah 
Fur fun
My love Affair with timur (or how to cook a Nepali village feast)
What we can learn from Nepali orphans
The woman who can't stop orgasming
Why it's time to lighten up about "weird" Japan
Video: Man in Japan weds video game character
The case against iPhones in the bedroom
Highlights from TEDWomen Part 1, Part 2, Part 3

POPULAR SCIENCE: 
The Quest to Read the Human Mind (April 2010)
The Hands-Free Future (November 2008)
Re-introducing the Airship (June 2008)

WIRED:
Meet Hiroyuki Nishimura, the Bad Boy of the Japanese Internet (June 2008)
Inside the Bizarre World of Japanese Pickup Schools (February 2008)
I Was A Neuroscience Guinea Pig: How Scientists Scrambled My Brain (November 2007)
Ruby Hotel (October 2007) 
2-Channel Gives Japan's Famously Quiet People A Mighty Voice (April 2007)
Urawaza (October 2006)
Cardboard boxers (September 2006)

STUDIO360: 
Judith Hill: Remembering Michael Jackson (June 2010) 
Aha Moment: Filmmaker David Boyle (December 2009)
Sparky the Robot (September 2009) 
Studio360 in Japan (February 2009)

OTHER FEATURES
Love in 2D (New York Times Magazine, July 2009) 
Brothers First: What's It Like to be the Dalai Lama's Youngest Brother? (Buddhadharma, Fall 2008)
Regarding Henry: A Profile of Actor Henry O (Giant Robot, September 2008)
Holy Man: An Interview with the Dalai Lama's Youngest Brother (Giant Robot, April 2008)
Hole in the Street: How one homeless man's death impacted the various Haight Street communities he looked after (San Francisco Bay Guardian, May 2007)

COLUMNS
Taste Test, a food porn column on Boing Boing
MangoBot, my Asian futurism column on io9.com

PUBLISHED IN JAPAN:
Japanese Facebook Takes Model T Approach (June 2008)
Tokyo Upstart Offers Freeters Mobile Flexibility (June 2008)
Spirited Away: Sex Trafficking in Japan (Metropolis, February 2007)
In the Mix (Metropolis, September 2006)
Life's a Beach (Metropolis, June 2006)

Comments

[batya]

your sex and the citizen article was really interesting! you're a great journalist.

[john]

enjoyed the urzawa. looked for the clips on youtube but nada. what are the keywords to search with when looking for these handy clips. do tell...!john

[kevin T]

this is the best restaurant in san francisco! i highly recommend it.

[Alex]

I liked your Anatomy of a Nerd article...especially your use of the term epic to describe shopping...priceless. You have an interesting blog, it makes me so envious of you. Longing to return to the land of the rising sun.

[ptinfrance]

you love unko? EIUW.

[sundaymalibu]

We love your writing. Very smooooth.

[kuma13x]

hello i loved your book my brother got it for me for my birthday ^_^. also if you could really send me a message on here i got a question to ask thx

[realservant]

regarding your Dr Sha article:

Much or Dr. Sha's basic teachings are very good. But beware how far he goes with it (especially since 2007): Dr. Sha makes incredible claims and charges obsene amounts of money. In short, he believes that he has been given special power from the "Divine" to transplant souls. So he has transplanted the Soul of Jesus (and a few other saints) to himself, and charges $5000 to transplant souls of other saints to his followers (that's after they've met the prerequisite of a $2000 Karma cleansing and all the courses they have to take). Recently he has said there has been an immaculate conception 'just like Mary' in China. Thats getting a little far out there, dont you think? Yet he says he is not teaching a religion.

ex-followers are starting to tell their story about this new religion (aka cult)on the forums.
here are a few of them.

http://www.thetaobums.com/index.php?act=ST&f=1&t=4500&st=20
http://yedda.com/questions/criticism_Dr_Zhi_Gang_Sha_critics_8621977791019/
http://forum.rickross.com/read.php?12,57321