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Gracious readership
A reader at Microsoft called last week to check me on that Greg Maffei statement I told you…
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WWJD?
No, not Jesus. It’s the spirit of Jon Postel we’re invoking today, and while we’re at it let’s…
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Amazon’s endless summer?
Amazon warehouse folk have the summer off—and then what? The mystery “reconfiguration” of the 90,000-square-foot Seattle warehouse is…
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Deal. No, really.
Now here’s a fun thing: MP3 has (yet another) strategy for avoiding what could be a truly bone-crushing,…
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Fake kids and robo-drunks
You may not have heard, but Patrick Naughton shook the child-porn conviction lodged against him last fall. It…
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AI-AI-AI!
Once upon a time in Europe, Leibniz (a mathematician) and Newton (a mathematician who liked apples) invented calculus.…
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Internet Free Europe
With the shutdown by Serbian strongman Slobodan Milosevic of Radio B92 last week, there is now no independent…
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AOL: Resistance is futile
In light of the recent declaration by America Online that paying its online hosts and guides would constitute…
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A geek’s wireless week
Disconnecting herself from her PC, our tech writer tries to PalmPilot herself through a typical workweek.
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No brains, no domains
OK, let’s see if I have this right: At Boeing, the engineers (as I write this) are striking:…
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Public Net Enemy #1
Technorealism had its 15 minutes of fame last year when various would-be visionaries got a craving for such…
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Getting personal
WARNING: This column contains no references to the WTO. (Down, disappointed readers!) Every year about this time, we…
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Resistance is fertile!
After the WTO, Electrohippies plan online "hacktivism" against biotech targets.
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Radio days
By the time you read this, your humble correspondent will be hiding in the press room at Internet…
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Great expectations suck
Once upon a time, in a tiny hidden kingdom called cyberspace, there was a wonderful and magical place…
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Curse of the cultware
Once upon a time, the Artist to Be Known in the Future as the Artist Formerly Known as…