Clips

Like the barber with a lousy haircut, I’m a researcher/archivist who has done an abysmal job of keeping track of my own work. (My father, Vincent, may he rest in peace, was a proud analogue keeper of hard-copies of my clips.)

Lost to the ether:

• Dozens of interviews I did for KCRW and Marketplace
• Source materials for my career as a (pioneering) culture-of-technology journalist at the New York Times, where I proudly pushed for my email address, “lisa@nytimes,” to be included at the end of my stories (inspiring consternation from the elders who did not understand why I’d want to interact with readers.) Over time, I became the more lofty “[email protected]”)
• And just about anything I did as an on-air reporter and columnist for MSNBC/MSNBC.com, where I wrote under the rubric “Napoli on the Net.” (Apologies; that title was not my idea.)

Also gone: My appearances on “On the Media” and BBC’S “The World,” where I was invited to explain the late 90s landscape of the “Web-volution,” the emerging dot-com universe, which perplexed and vexed so many.

Not easy to point to: Dozens of Online Diary columns I wrote for the New York Times Circuits Section after 2004.

And that’s just some of the journalism I “committed,” as the old-timers say.

Gone, too, is the work we all did at Delphi Internet Services, an early on-ramp online for the general public purchased by a big, bad media titan, and Q2, a hipster shopping channel cousin of QVC, launched by a now-titan who had escaped the previously mentioned one. 

Only now, with so much distance in the rearview mirror, do I lament my lax personal filing. What our rogue team accomplished at CyberTimes is not lassoed up neatly in TimesPast, the estimable repository of the “newspaper of record.” And what we did was truly cutting edge, so early in the days of the Web that the paper itself wasn’t aware of it. All of the conversations you hear today about the legal, moral, ethical, privacy and just generally life-altering implications of AI and such…are the same conversations that permeated all we did thirty years ago. 

To that end, I’ve curated a few links to my past work here. I’ve not included appearances I’ve done for my various book tours, which were wide-ranging, or links to conversations with notable people I’ve conducted.