 In 2007, Vance wrote a book, called "Geek Silicon Valley", on the history of the Silicon Valley.His writing often also appears in such publications as "The Economist", "Chicago Tribune", CNN.com, "The Globe and Mail", the "International Herald Tribune", and CNET.Vance hosted an audio podcast called "Semi-Coherent Computing" from 2007–2008, in which he discussed enterprise computing topics such as Datacenter cooling and blade servers, and interviewed guests including chip pioneer David Ditzel of Transmeta, Sun Microsystems, and Bell Labs.