Shifting the Amazon recommendations paradigm.
For those who remember that technology was more fun before it got dumbed down by dot-com mania, last week was…
Functional, unlovable, the great Dome attains beauty in death.
When I was very young I loved to read newspapers from other places. Growing up in rural Nebraska, I wasn’t…
Carnivore is a natural-born privacy predator.
Signed, Bill G.
Flipping the switch on privacy.
From the Cox News Service wire, August 4, 1999: “WASHINGTON— Put a computer in the home, and women are nearly…
We are gathered here today to pour out a 40 in honor of our fallen Amazon dogs, and as we…
A while back I wrote a column extolling the joys of forwarded e-mail—the jokes, the weird news items, the inspirational…
With so much strangeness afoot in the world—Microsoft closing arguments, the continuing privacy wars, and so on—I meant to write…
America Online can be confusing. How to make sense of a company that’s simultaneously suing cable companies for not allowing…
I’m going to have an awful time getting into the swing of 2001, seeing as I’ve dropped out of polite…
The lady on the phone at Bank of America (n饠Seafirst) was most understanding, and she left me with a warm,…
Rural Nebraska, my ancestral home, has 14.4Kbps modem connections. Everything else goes a little bit slower. I am heading home…
The edgiest indie “films” are being created and distributed online.
The Planet Project would like to teach the world to speak up.
A reader at Microsoft called last week to check me on that Greg Maffei statement I told you about, the…
Bill puts Microsoft in Steve’s hands.
No, not Jesus. It’s the spirit of Jon Postel we’re invoking today, and while we’re at it let’s call up…
