For more than four­teen years, Spark has worked as a jour­nal­ist report­ing on the tech indus­try in print, radio, TV, and online. His arti­cles and advice have appeared in more than 25 pub­li­ca­tions and media out­lets includ­ing eWEEK, Wired News, PC Com­put­ing, PC World, ABC Radio, and Smart Com­put­ing. You may have seen Spark dis­pens­ing his “how-to” advice and pun­ditry on ZDTV/TechTV, a for­mer cable sta­tion about com­put­ers and the Inter­net (video).

In addi­tion, Spark spent ten years in adver­tis­ing and cor­po­rate enter­tain­ment as a new media direc­tor and mar­ket­ing creative.

While not cov­er­ing the tech beat or man­ag­ing ad cam­paigns, Spark squan­dered more than a dozen years work­ing as a stand up come­dian and com­edy writer for The Sec­ond City com­edy troupe in Chicago (video).

Cur­rently, Spark is a reg­u­lar con­trib­u­tor for John C. Dvorak’s Cranky Geeks, KQED’s “This Week in North­ern Cal­i­for­nia,” ABC Radio, hosts his pod­cast “Be the Voice,” and can be heard daily on the “Spark Minute” for two Clear Chan­nel radio sta­tions in the Bay Area: Green 960 (pro­gres­sive talk) and 910 KNEW (con­ser­v­a­tive talk).

David Spark lives in San Fran­cisco, a city he loves so much he’s become a local his­to­rian offer­ing walk­ing tours to locals and tourists.

• Real-time web dic­tates change in industries
• Cause mar­ket­ing moti­vated through challenges
• Embar­rass­ing child­hood sto­ries from Diggnation’s host (and his mom)
• Mak­ing sense of con­ver­sa­tions on Twitter
• End of the resume, rise of the super user
• RSA 2010: What respon­si­bil­ity do secu­rity blog­gers have to the industry?
• RSA 2010: How to pro­tect your­self from social net­work­ing malware
• Web show pro­duc­ers: Increase user loy­alty with live interaction
• Is it still pompous to announce, ‘I don’t have a TV’?
• Out­door: The only ad plat­form that sur­vives social media
• My most pop­u­lar (and favorite) posts of 2009
• Le Web day 2: End of day show report
• Le Web day 1: End of day show report
• How Dell han­dles cus­tomer ser­vice and sales through social media
• Geeks on a Train
• Free report: ‘Real-Time Search and Dis­cov­ery of the Social Web’
• The Trav­el­ing Geeks land at Le Web
• Chris Ander­son on the democ­ra­ti­za­tion of man­u­fac­tur­ing and distribution
• HP responds to ‘Why I love pub­lic trans­porta­tion and hate HP’
• Guy Kawasaki’s top Twit­ter tips for businesses
• ‘Avatar’ pro­ducer Jon Lan­dau on keep­ing film blog­gers in the pro­duc­tion loop
• High­lights from ad:tech New York 2009
• Why I love pub­lic trans­porta­tion and hate HP
• Pre­mi­um­cast: Mak­ing Money from Podcasting
• Duct Tape Mar­ket­ing: Mak­ing Money from Podcasting
• Preg­tas­tic: Mak­ing Money from Podcasting
• Why cor­po­rate blog­ging is like sell­ing uncut cocaine
• Aren’t we all a lit­tle nar­cis­sis­tic and Inter­net addicted?
• Anony­mous social net­works open the gates for dig­i­tal therapy
• Build your indus­try voice with social media