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Here’s a handful of links to some of my favorite pieces of technology writing:

How Google Book Search Got Lost (Backchannel)

Doing is knowing: ‘Sweet Jane’ and the Web (Backchannel/Wordyard)

There’s a blockchain for that (Backchannel)

Code of Ages: Go and Swift take another step up the programming-language ladder (Backchannel)

Shut down your office: You now work in Slack (Backchannel)

Justin Hall, the original over-sharer (chapter one of Say Everything)

Large Blocks of Uninterrupted Text (transcript of a talk about blogging and ‘Say Everything’)

Steve Jobs, auteur (Salon profile, January 1999)

Yes, Virginia, there is a better search engine (1998 Salon column introducing a newfangled thing called Google)