Twenty-seven years of writing,
now stored in one place.
Down the Avenue was my personal blog for more than two decades — written from conference floors, airport lounges, start-up offices, coffee bars and kitchen tables across the world. It began before “blogging” was a thing. Before RSS. Before WordPress. Before Square. And before social media. As a technology publicist, journalist and industry pundit, and photographer I covered the years that reshaped how all of us live and connect.
Typepad shut it down. For those of you who were early to the game, you know how a blog felt like a personal friend. Despite traveling show-to-show with my Canon 7D never far from my side, most of those images are now lost, deleted from an old Typepad server that never kept this part of history alive, at least not through my eyes.
This is what I managed to preserve, although sadly, a chunk of the photos went missing.
The Web 2.0 Years
Nearly all of it — 5,025 posts — was written between 2003 and 2012, the years when social media, smartphones, speech recognition tools and the modern internet were being built. I was in many of those rooms, helping shape the messaging and some of the technology. I captured what happened through reflections, news updates and through my Canon lens. Some of them were clients, whereas others were partners or cool ideas and alpha and beta products I got access to early on.
This is a first-hand record of that era, not a retrospective.
Browse by Era
Each period reads differently. Pick where you want to land.
occasional returns.
Browse by Subject
The themes that came up again and again.
… and 68 more subjects, from PR & Marketing to Spirituality.
From the Archive
Thousands of photographs came back with the writing — tagged by
subject, so you can look through them on their own.
Where the writing lives. The posts themselves sit on We Blog The World, which has the room for twenty-seven years of archive. This page is the front door: the photographs, the eras and the subjects are gathered here, and every link below opens the archive itself.