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I don’t got the hookup
I’m honored to be writing this brand-new column, in this farm-fresh Tech section, in this third-most-wired city in…
Angela Gunn
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Clinton in your computer
Goddamn it, Clinton, this time it’s war. A while back I ruffled through my stack of news clips…
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What a long strange ‘Trek’ it’s been
It has come to this: On Saturday night, while respectable folk are out enjoying the early evening Seattle…
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Showcased
SimulRing is making people jiggle their knees. A hot product demo pumps up the crowd at a big-ticket…
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Piranhas of the Amazon
The most conspicuously successful avatar of Net commerce is Amazon.com—so hyped, so stock-inflated, and so damn smug about…
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E-fly the friendly skies
THE HOLIDAY SEASON isn’t an easy time to find cheap airfares; in addition, in the event of high-technical…
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Gated com.munities
Once upon a time, when the Web was young and Net geeks were off the cultural radar, there…
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Monopolysoft: The saga continues
WHAT A DIFFERENCE a week makes: Observers suspected they were able to gauge how far Microsoft’s lawyers had…
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Alexa, DoubleClick: private, shmivate
The online industry has been told repeatedly over the years that if they didn’t create a coherent policy…
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Notes from the underground
Urban infiltrators are the "hackers" of older technologies, exploring the old bones of tomorrow's ruins.
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Hollow “victories”
Quick guide to the perplexed, of which there appear to be many in Seattle this week: Not losing…
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All we can do
This week’s column carries an admission charge: Before proceeding, please point your browser to www.fuckedcompany.com/edgewater.html and donate some…
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Livin’ la vida Redmond
Strange news has reached my ears about Microsoft’s latest attempt to look warm and fuzzy. It seems that…
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What matters
This heretical idea I’m getting that goodness or intelligence is more interesting than fame comes from, I think,…
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Re: Remail
Mitchell Fox put up a pretty fuss in the Sunday Times last weekend, complaining about people who forward…
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Copy rights? Wrong.
Last week, in an eat-drink-and-be-merry-for-tomorrow-they-take-away-Napster mood, I suggested that the problem with the record industry on this issue—the…