Pixel Nation: 80 Weeks of World Wide Wade

by Wade Roush

Wade Roush is chief correspondent at Xconomy, the source for hyperlocal news about innovation and entrepreneurship in technology, the life sciences, and energy in Boston, San Diego, and Seattle. Roush's Friday column, World Wide Wade, offers his broad, often quirky perspective on the culture of computing and the Internet, covering everything from amateur digital photography to the Internet video revolution to the impact of Amazon's Kindle and Apple's iPhone and iPad. The column has has appeared in Xconomy nearly every week since April 2008, and now Xconomy has gathered Roush's first 80 essays into an e-book with an original introduction. Readers will enjoy being able to read all the columns in sequence, and will learn how the stories continued in the bonus news updates following each chapter.

365 pages, Kindle Edition

Published February 3, 2010

About the author

Wade Roush is a freelance science and technology writer, columnist at Scientific American, and host and producer of the tech-and-culture podcast Soonish. His work has appeared in Science, Xconomy, and MIT Technology Review. He is the editor of the science fiction anthology Twelve Tomorrows (MIT Press).