How I met Clive Thompson
I met Clive at South by Southwest in Austin in 2002. I was trying to write a profile of Cory Doctorow at the time and get it published by Shift, a now-defunct technology magazine here in Canada. Clive had been a staff writer for Shift and had written some pretty kick-ass articles for them.
I was a bit intimidated but we talked for about five minutes and he gave me a bit of advice for getting the story published. Shift never did want it, though. “Who’s Cory Doctorow?,” they said…
