Here’s Click City Episode 9: The father she never knew http://www.sfgate.com/entertainment/article/Click-City-Episode-9-The-father-she-never-knew-5003220.php

Hello, Here’s episode 8 of Click City: http://www.sfgate.com/entertainment/article/Click-City-Episode-8-On-the-trail-of-wily-girls-4994463.php#photo-5485769

 Here’s a link to Episode 7—Roger’s unexpected domestic crisis: http://www.sfgate.com/entertainment/article/Click-City-Episode-7-Ready-to-rendezvous-until-4986349.php After today, Click City will run in its regular spot on Wednesdays and Saturdays in the San Francisco Chronicle’s Datebook. I’d love to hear your comments, thoughts, or stories about what is happening in San Francisco and Silicon Valley.    

Hi Everyone, Here’s Click City episode 6: http://www.sfgate.com/entertainment/article/Click-City-Episode-6-A-date-with-apprehension-4983901.php#photo-5464256  

Click City episode 5 just went up. Andy makes an uncomfortable compromise. http://www.sfgate.com/entertainment/article/Click-City-Episode-5-A-mutually-beneficial-deal-4981591.php I’d love to hear your comments.

Meet Andy Stevens, who works in Union Square in Click City. Only her boss and her father call her Andrea. Here’s Click City Episode 4: http://www.sfgate.com/entertainment/article/Click-City-Episode-4-The-image-becomes-clearer-4978707.php

  Click City Episode 3 is live: Beth Fixes a Leak and Stokes a Flame. http://www.sfgate.com/entertainment/article/Click-City-Episode-3-Fixing-a-leak-stoking-a-4975297.php A little background on the hacker contests: The residents of the hacker hostel AT 101 enter bug bounty competitions for extra money. Companies offer cash prizes to anyone who finds a bug that can crash their server.  There are also sponsored Iron Chef-style competitions, where a target computer is placed on the network and […]

With the rents skyrocketing in San Francisco, driven tech people are willing to live in linen closets. Communal living to share expenses and ideas is very popular. While often these places are broken-down Victorians like my hacker hostel AT 101 in the Mission, there are some fancy incubators in Pacific Heights mansions. I visited a hostel on Twin Peaks with 5-star views.  If you’re a bunch of single people with […]

  The San Francisco Chronicle launched the first episode of Click City today at http://www.sfgate.com/default/article/Click-City-Episode-1-Trying-to-cracking-the-code-4971245.php#page-1 It’s been more than 30 years since Armistead Maupin’s classic novel, Tales of the City, was serialized in the San Francisco Chronicle, depicting a free and easy San Francisco with the drug and sex counter-culture in full swing. Now 30 plus years later, the techies and digerati have arrived with an intent to fit in […]

This Sunday, November 10th, the San Francisco Chronicle will launch the first episode of my fiction serial, Click City, which is about the San Francisco and Silicon Valley tech scene, in the tradition of Tales of City.  Every day this week the Chronicle will introduce a new character. See Roger Martin here: http://www.sfgate.com/default/article/Click-City-Meet-Roger-Martin-4948327.php