My Clips
A non-exhaustive list of things I’ve written for publication. If you want to see more, feel free to email me.
Wired, “What Will They Think of Next? Record Labels’ Ridiculous Antileak Tech”
Wired, “Six New Directors Who Are Making Music Videos Cool Again”
Wired, “Flaming Lips’ Freaky, Martian Musical Finally Touches Down: An Interview With Wayne Coyne”
Wired, Product Reviews: RIM 8800 BlackBerry SmartPhone
Wired, “Discovering the New World: 7 Glimpses into the Hyperlocal Future” [Sidebars for June 2007 Cover Story on Locative Technology (PDF)]
Wired.com, “Nightmare Casting ‘Watchmen’”
VentureBeat, “Is latency crippling Yahoo’s Right Media? Yep.”
VentureBeat, “Our review: Chrome more than capable of taking on IE and Firefox”
VentureBeat, “DEMOfall 08: SpinSpotter Aims to Clear Up Media Bias”
Business 2.0, “Cracking the code for GPS software.”
Business 2.0, “Say goodbye to the used-car salesman.”
BNET, “How to Get Started With LinkedIn”
BNET, “Great Moments in Terrible Ideas: A Social Network for Your Company”
BNET, “Three Reasons Why Negative Works for Politics But Not For Actual Advertising”
BNET, “Should You Up Your Marketing During a Recession?”
Zimbio, “Zimbio Interview: John C. Reilly”
Zimbio, “7 Questions with Marisa Tomei”
Zimbio, “7 Questions with Darren Aronofsky”
Zimbio, “5 Ways Mel Gibson Could Rehab His Image”
Zimbio, “All Kanye West Wants to Do Is Apologize to Taylor Swift”
McSweeney’s Internet Tendency, “My Tenure as Holiday Party Planner Was Long, Controversial, and Will Be Ultimately Vindicated by History.”
McSweeney’s Internet Tendency, “How Important Moments in My Life Would Have Been Different If I Was Shot in the Stomach” [later reprinted in Created in Darkness by Troubled Americans: The Best of McSweeney’s, Humor Category (Knopf, 2004) and Humor Me: An Anthology of Funny Contemporary Writing (Picador, 2010)]
McSweeney’s Internet Tendency, “From the Grad Schoolyard: The Diarrhea Song” [later reprinted in The McSweeney’s Joke Book of Book Jokes (Vintage, 2008)]
Pindeldyboz, “Diary of the Living Dead or: Are You There God? It’s Me. Also, a Bunch of Zombies” [later reprinted in The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2008 (Mariner Books, 2008)]
Lies With Occasional Truth, “Ninjas! (And What I Would Do)”
Crawdaddy!, “Carl Wilson: Tastes Are Composed of a Thousand Misunderstandings”
Ghoti Magazine, “Tornado Season”
Ghoti Magazine, “Thousand on a Plate”
Ghoti Magazine, “Quantification”
YouTube, “Helen Keller”
YouTube, “This Apocalapyse, It’s Tough on Everyone But It’s Toughest on Me” [winner of April 2010 Literary Deathmatch, San Francisco]
About Me
I'm Jake Swearingen, writer/editor type guy in Los Angeles. I'm the web editor for LA Weekly. I like the Internet and I believe in you.
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