I’m honored to be writing this brand-new column, in this farm-fresh Tech section, in this third-most-wired city in America. That…
Goddamn it, Clinton, this time it’s war. A while back I ruffled through my stack of news clips and came…
It has come to this: On Saturday night, while respectable folk are out enjoying the early evening Seattle sun, I…
SimulRing is making people jiggle their knees. A hot product demo pumps up the crowd at a big-ticket event like…
The most conspicuously successful avatar of Net commerce is Amazon.com—so hyped, so stock-inflated, and so damn smug about itself that…
THE HOLIDAY SEASON isn’t an easy time to find cheap airfares; in addition, in the event of high-technical trouble, this…
Once upon a time, when the Web was young and Net geeks were off the cultural radar, there existed various…
WHAT A DIFFERENCE a week makes: Observers suspected they were able to gauge how far Microsoft’s lawyers had read through…
Seeking the wild Yettie and other techish reading for the season.
Finding the true meaning of baseball in the Cosmic Baseball Association.
The online industry has been told repeatedly over the years that if they didn’t create a coherent policy protecting user…
Cellophane Square and its used CDs go New Economy.
Urban infiltrators are the “hackers” of older technologies, exploring the old bones of tomorrow’s ruins.
Quick guide to the perplexed, of which there appear to be many in Seattle this week: Not losing does not…
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Strange news has reached my ears about Microsoft’s latest attempt to look warm and fuzzy. It seems that down in…
This heretical idea I’m getting that goodness or intelligence is more interesting than fame comes from, I think, doing an…
Jeff Bezos named Man of the Year; fear for 2000.
Mitchell Fox put up a pretty fuss in the Sunday Times last weekend, complaining about people who forward certain kinds…
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 reason they’re…
“Slow and steady wins the race” is a maxim hanging over no Web-weaver’s cubicle. Speed is a function of viability,…
A personal digital assistant speaks volumes about the owner—and the giver
I apologize in advance. I expect by the time this hits the stands on Wednesday you’ll be wanting to hear…
