Irrelevant for whom exactly? He's relevant enough to make HN's front page. I've also been following his blog (and the Boing Boing website) for years (and the

Irrelevant for whom exactly? He's relevant enough to make HN's front page. I've also been following his blog (and the Boing Boing website) for years (and the Boing Boing paper zine before that). I've never read his fiction, but his writing on technology, privacy and surveillance capitalism is eloquent, interesting, and insightful and has always been worth my time.