The arc.
I started as a videoblogger with a camera at protests. In 2006 I spent 226 days in federal prison for refusing to hand my unpublished footage to a grand jury. After that came a run for mayor, a master's at Berkeley, six years on San Francisco's Sunshine Ordinance Task Force, and bylines wherever the records were. Since 2023 I have been building with AI, and I now run three studios from eleven acres outside Nevada City: IntelliBotique, TranquilTech and The Democracy Studio.
Twenty-one years of work, in nine chapters.
Pre-blog
Education + early production
Videoblogging + protest journalism
The Revolution Will Be Televised; the G8 footage
Federal grand jury / incarceration
226 days; longest-jailed US journalist
Release, awards, SF Mayor 2007
Herblock + Monroe; the mayoral run; Free the Media
Berkeley J-school + Wheeler Hall
Master's; the occupation; the suspension fight
Bylines + lecturing
JTM; CNET MediaSphere; Shareable; teaching
Sunshine Ordinance Task Force
Vice Chair; civic-enforcement seat
HOME
Breaking Bread; PDC; the land
AI / IntelliBotique / present
Pickaxe; Substack; Tranquil Tech; Navigator
Pre-blog
Education + early production
Videoblogging + protest journalism
The Revolution Will Be Televised; the G8 footage
Federal grand jury / incarceration
226 days; longest-jailed US journalist
Release, awards, SF Mayor 2007
Herblock + Monroe; the mayoral run; Free the Media
Berkeley J-school + Wheeler Hall
Master's; the occupation; the suspension fight
Bylines + lecturing
JTM; CNET MediaSphere; Shareable; teaching
Sunshine Ordinance Task Force
Vice Chair; civic-enforcement seat
HOME
Breaking Bread; PDC; the land
AI / IntelliBotique / present
Pickaxe; Substack; Tranquil Tech; Navigator
There are several Josh Wolfs.
This site is the journalist (longest-jailed US journalist for refusing a federal grand jury subpoena, 2006–07), founder of IntelliBotique, TranquilTech and The Democracy Studio, and Pickaxe's first brand evangelist (the bylined Pickaxe writing is mine). Not the comedian.
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