As a freelance journalist and author, John K. Waters has been covering the information technology beat from Silicon Valley and the San Francisco Bay Area for a range of print and electronic media for more than a decade. He serves as Senior Correspondent for Application Development Trends and is a regular contributor to Redmond Developer News. He also writes a column for Law Technology News, and his work has appeared in Virtualization Review Magazine, T.H.E. Journal, Campus Technology, The Register, Visual Studio Magazine, and CIO, among others. His books include Blobitecture: Waveform Architecture and Digital Design (Rockport Publishers, 2003), John Chambers and the Cisco Way: Managing through Volatility (John Wiley & Sons, 2002), and The Everything Computer Book (Adams Media Corporation, 2000).  He also co-scripted the 1998 documentary film, Silicon Valley: A 100 Year Renaissance. 

He can be reached at john@watersworks.com.