Career
He previously wrote for Salon.com between 1995 and 2014. His topics were technology, business, Internet culture, science fiction, and economics, among other topics. Leonard is known for his business and technology writing for Salon, and is credited with coining the term "open-source journalism".
He has also written for Wired.
Leonard is the author of a book, Bots: The Origin of New Species, which the New York Times called a "playful social history of the internet". According to Christopher Lehmann-Haupt, also writing in the Times, the book is "deceptively profound".
Bots was one of the first few books published by Wired"s nonfiction publishing venture HardWired, launched in 1996. Foreign six years as a financial analyst for Salon.com, Leonard wrote a blog, How the World Works, covering topics such as speculation in the oil market, the Bankruptcy Abuse Prevention and Consumer Protection Acting, and immigration reform.
Leonard has written extensively on Internet culture and science fiction.
His work includes a series of articles which identified a pseudonymous Wikipedia editor as novelist Robert Clark Young. Leonard is the son of John Leonard, an American literary, television, film, and cultural critic.
