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GEEKS
IN RETREAT
The 1998 copyright
act is being used to squelch free speech online
NSA
INSIDE?
Why is the National
Security Agency taking such an interest in Linux?
THEY
STOLE MY BRAIN
When her old Palm
Pilot gets picked, a columnist contemplates the true value of technology
WORD
GAMES
Imagine what would
have happened if Thomas Jefferson had used Microsoft Word
YEAH,
I'M 21--HONEST!
The Internet fake
ID biz is booming
DESIGNED
BY SATAN
Why DVDs are hell's
evil spawn
COME
AND GET IT
Why the Napster
Download Frenzy represents the American Dream just like a Brinks
truck spilling silver dollars all over the highway
BLANKING
THE WEB
This-page-intentionally-left-blank.org
hopes to spur self-reflection online
ONLINE
ACCESS
Congressional voting
records and government contracts need to be available on the Web
DOTCOM
VULTURES
Widespread dotcom
deaths aren't bad news for everyone. Silicon Valley movers and office
equipment auctioneers have never been so busy.
SOFTWARE
BY THE CLICK
Web-based services
give it all to you online
MORE
GUILT EPLEASURES
Web sites so bad,
they're awful. Awfully fun, that is.
ADVICE
FROM OUR FOUNDING FATHERS
George Washington,
Alexander Hamilton and Thomas Jefferson offer their thoughts on
managing an Internet startup during tumultuous times
ALL
YOUR BASE ARE BELONG TO US
You can neither
explain nor deny the seductive, satiric power of this Internet phenomenon
VIRGINITY
FOR SALE
Another eBay shenanigan
EXTRA
HELPINGS
The joys and small
sorrows of online grocery shopping
WELCOME
INTRUDER
Get ready to play
Majestic, "the suspense thriller that infiltrates your life through
the Internet, telephone and fax"
HANDS
OFF
Running through
the latest ergonomic software
ALL
SHOOK DOWN
The legal battle
over Napster could last longer than "In-a-Gadda-Da-Vida"
DOWN
THE TUBE
Waste some time
at the Guess the Dictator and/or Television Sitcom Character site
TRAFFIC
STOP
StopTheWar.com
aims to channel some of the outrage about the drug war being generated
by Steven Soderbergh's "Traffic"
SO
SORRY DAVID GALLAGHER
Impersonating a
celebrity on AOL might seem amusing at first, but things can go
horribly wrong
DIGITAL
DUMP
What happens when
good computers go bad
REQUIEM
FOR A DREAMCAST
The little entertainment
system that could didn't stand a chance
ORGASM
IMPLANTS?
She wants a cybernetic
pleasure implant. Believe it or not, one's being developed.
GOING
SOUTH
The demise of Disney's
Go.com is yet another slight to big-bucks backer Compaq
CIA
TRICKS ARE FOR KIDS
Agency's site has
a spooky way of telling children to stay away from drugs
MOUNTAINS
OUT OF MOLEHILLS
In 1996, one law
changed the face of electronic communications
DIGGING
FOR DIRT
The Find a Death
site unearths interesting facts about departed celebs
PLASTIC
FANTASTIC?
Participatory news
& culture site Plastic.com hopes it's cheaper to let readers do
most of the work
UNIONBUSTERS.COM?
Was Amazon's decision
to eliminate 400 jobs in its Seattle customer-service center related
to that units attempts to unionize?
NOTE
FROM SKIDROW.COM
An open letter
to the Internet economy
NAPSTER
VERSION 2.0
Soon, Napster will
become a paid service, and everything could actually work out
READING
THIS COLUMN WILL HURT YOU
The more we learn
about computer-related eye problems, the greater their impact appears
INTERNET
KILLED THE TV STAR
Get into the stream
of broadcast media on the Web
ELECTRONIC
UTOPIA
With 200-plus future
shops, think of Akihabara--Tokyo's retail technology district--as
a Sharper Image scaled to the towering height of Godzilla
YES,
YOU'RE HOT
A reconsideration
of Amihotornot.com
TIMING
OUT
Microsoft's sites
go down just as it launches a campaign touting that "Windows 2000
Server-based systems [are] designed to deliver up to 99.999% server
uptime."
THE
FUTURE IS NOW
It's fun to take
some educated guesses about the tech road ahead
THE
CULT OF IT
Could we have conjured
the mystery of a machine code-named Ginger to whisk us back to the
monetarily comfortable days of the tech revolution?
THE
GAME OF THE NAME
Why the RealNames
plan to replace URLs with "Internet keywords" is doomed to failure
DATA
DRIVE
Embracing high-tech
communications, Detroit offers new ways to keep connected in the
car
BIG
BROTHER'S EMAIL COPS
Carnivore still
bites off more than it can chew
MUSIC
BROKERS
ChuckandDave.com
hopes to make a go at helping you turn your tired used CDs into
fresh tunes
ME
& MY ROBOT DOG
Kubrick is special.
Women love Kubrick. But is that enough?
SEXING
THE NEW ECONOMY
Unlike many Dotgone
Economy CEOs, adult entertainment star Danni Ashe knows that the
Rules of the Game haven't changed
NET
GAINS
Is the Internet
just a giant Tupperware party?
QUICK
WAYS TO GET SMART
Web sites with
all the answers
WAGING
WWAR
Worldwide Arts
Resources charts the international arts scene online
MOBILE
HOMING
The current business
obsession with "M"--for mobile communication--smacks of post-dotcom
hopelessness
NO
QUARTER
Netbabyworld presents
a collection of simple, entertaining Shockwave games on the Web
ISLAND
URL
Mr. Beller's Neighborhood
is a virtual Manhattan, where dots on the map represent stories,
essays and observations tied to NYC locations
HAND-TO-HAND
COMBAT
The handheld computing
market pushes two visions for delivering the wireless Web
REQUIEM
FOR A DOTCOM
How does one go
from running one's own Internet company, signing $500,000 checks,
back to working in a cubicle for somebody else?
CODERS
UNITE!
Why unionize? Because
coders won't be spared when all the Web money evaporates.
GETTING
A GRIPE
Find cyber-satisfaction
with the Automatic Complaint-Letter Generator
H.A.L.
VS. DAVE, 2001
In which a writer
named Dave takes on Arthur C. Clarke's H.A.L. 9000
DOTCOM
PATHOS
Yeah, you could
have stayed on and gone down with the Web ship, but you had stability
to think about
FAMILY
SITE
Charlie don't surf,
but Manson's got his own Web site
REBEL
WITH A CAUSE
Some say Napster's
decision to sell out to Bertlesmann AG defeats its entire free-music
purpose. In reality, Napster did what it had to do to survive.
MANY
HAPPY RETURNS?
Some online businesses
treat their return policies--if they have them at all--as afterthoughts
THE
AGE OF EMPIRES
Forget "Civilization"
and other "God" games. We need one based on the new economy. Anyone
up for a round of "Microsoft Media Monopoly"?
MEET
THE MICROSOFT FAMILY
In a Tribeca building,
the world's largest software company has rolled the arts of acting,
public relations and domestic relations into one grand scene
SURF
THE FRIENDLY SKIES?
Online ticket services
don't have much personality
SEXUALLY
HARASS THIS!
The video your
bosses showed you explains what sexual harassment is. Now it's time
to get back to work and put those naked pictures on the Web site.
THE
STAND
When Stephen King
pulled the plug on his online serial, "The Plant," was it really
because he was shortchanged by a cheapskate Internet audience?
ATOMICA'S
DA BOMB
A look at the coolest
little piece of software to hit desktops in a long, long time
SEEK
YOUR INNER HARDWARE
Web sites assist
in the quest for that dream computer
ROCK
'N' ROLL REBELS GO DIGITAL
The line has been
drawn when it comes to music online, and it's pretty simple: Are
you for the system or against it?
DOTCOM
D-DAY
This holiday shopping
season is make-or-break time for a growing number of e-commerce
sites
EVERYBODY
JUST TAKE A BREATH
The Internet may
not save us, but it won't ruin us, either
PIXEL
PERFECT
Digital cameras
have advanced a lot in the last few years. We put four popular models
to the test.
REAL
HOUSE PARTY
Life in a Web-cam
house: The first night
DIGITAL
CLEAVAGE
Women are on the
wrong side of the gender divide at Comdex
SEXSURVIVOR
2000 CAN'T GET IT UP
Blowhard Internet
competition finishes early, pissing off both participants and viewers
HIGH-TECH
FOR THE HOLIDAYS
Meet Audrey, Apple's
AirPort and a new Internet radio
DOT
CHARITIES
Channel some of
that holiday spirit into something other than a Web cash register
DSAFARIK
DOESN'T LIVE HERE ANYMORE
When your email
address is mistaken for somebody else's, weird shit happens
LIES,
DAMNED LIES & TECHNOLOGY
Cyberspace is the
new breeding ground of urban legends and other paranoia
BY
E-VITATION ONLY
Party planning
the cyber way
PAPER
CUTS
New technologies
will change the look of books
AOL
VS. THE DIGERATI
The ISP derided
by Web hipsters is about to become a lot more powerful
MASTERS
OF OUR DOMAINS
Anything ICANN
can do, we can do better
HERE
COMES SUN
Who owns the Internet?
DREAMING
OF A SAFE E-CHRISTMAS
Holiday tips for
secure online shopping
BRING
ME YOUR SKILLED, YOUR TRAINED, YOUR EDUCATED
Immigrant labor
on the information railroad
ALL
COOL ON THE WEB
Tidbits of Internet
goodness
SHOP
FOR ART'S SAKE
Visit museum shops
around the world online
MICROSOFT'S
BIG HACK ATTACK
Microsoft alerted
the FBI that it had been hacked on Oct. 25, and the company's spin
machine has been in high gear ever since
POOP
ON THIS
Triumph, the Insult
Comic Dog, responds to the death of Pets.com
MICE
WILL PLAY
As the Disney honcho's
son, Eric Eisner could have done anything he wanted in life. Does
that explain why he's running an adults-only Web site?
FLASHING
SHORTS
The comedy magic
of Lil' Pimp is making Internet history
MOOD
RADIO
Do online make-your-own
radio stations turn music into Muzak?
ALL
TOGETHER NOW
Web aggregator
sites help us organize our lives online
PUSHING
OUR BUTTONS
Do we need Sony's
new PlayStation2? No, but we want it.
ALL
THAT
We'd just like
to point out an overused email phrase. That is all.
BRAINLESS
THINGAMAJIGS
Technology is getting
sillier. Here are a few examples.
WORSHIP
AND LUST
Gore and Bush salivate
over high-tech support
SEARCHING
HIGH
And lo, there was
Search Engine Watch to help us navigate the wonders of the Web
GHOST
SITE-INGS
Where cyberspace
meets the netherworld, there's no shortage of sites related to Halloween
SPAM
SCAMMING
Blast email serves
online advertisers, but it has also morphed into a necessary tool
for committing investment fraud
VIDEO
RETRO
The videocassette
is dying, and it makes her terribly sad
INTERNET
JIBBA JABBA
Get your fresh
new-economy jargon from the Web economy bullshit generator
BLIND
POSTINGS
Anonymous publishing
programs mean an end to accountability on the Web
MICROCHIP
NATION
New technology
could make us all a part of the collective, permanently supervised
from above
INFORMATION
SUICIDE
When online information
dies, it doesn't leave monuments
TOOLBOX
PHILOSOPHER
In "Think Unix,"
Jon Lasser tries to explain the quirky, difficult-to-get Unix gestalt
itself
SPEAKING
IN TONGUES
AOL and Japan's
largest wireless provider have signed an agreement that will allow
them to rule the unwired Web
WORK
SNOOPS
If you think your
Web-based email missives are safe from your boss' prying eyes, think
again
DIARY
OF A DOTCOM JUNKIE
For this writer,
e-commerce and heroin unfortunately mix
PLUGGING
AWAY
A John Henryish
desire to race against machines pushes tech workers beyond reasonable
limits
VIRAL
LOADING
Viral marketing,
the sinister term for word-of-email advertising, has reached an
exhausting peak
GOING,
GOING, GONE
How much longer
can Priceline hold on?
NAPSTER
BLINKS
We all know it's
kind of wrong, this business of sharing copyrighted music--which
is partly why it's so much fun
KNOCK
KNOCK
The Web opens the
door for prank calls
DEBATABLE
BETA
Macintosh's OS
X is pretty and slick. But at thirty bucks just for the beta version,
maybe the Mac faithful should start questioning their devotion.
WWWINE.COM
Finding the Internet's
best on-vine information
FREEDOM
BROWSER
Peacefire founder
wages arms race against censorware
CABLE
FRICTION
Laying fiber-optic
line on the ocean floor is touchy business
WE,
THE CREATORS
There's no freedom
of choice in Napsterville
WORD
PROCESSING
Clicking on the
Web's short-fiction offerings brings up a mother lode of original
literature
INTO
THE KOZMOS
Meet the delivery
riders of Urbanfetch and Kozmo.com
PLUGGED-IN
PROTEST
"Cybercitizen:
How to Use Your Computer to Fight for All the Issues You Care About"
is an informative--if condescending--little book
I'VE
GOT AN E-CRUSH
A new Web site
lets you know if your secret beloved feels the same way
CEREALIZATION
Get the lowdown
on your favorite breakfast food online
CAT
SCAN
A pint-sized, bar-code
reader called :Cuecat helps big advertisers do their market research.
You can get one free, but should you?
BONE
UP ON THE SKULL & BONES
Before you hit
the high seas, log onto the Piracy Reporting Centre site
AIMING
AT ABE
Icebox.com's "Hard
Drinkin' Lincoln" takes on our most beloved prez
NET
INVESTMENTS
When it comes to
relying on the Web for financial guidance, the watchwords are buy
low, sell high and watch for lies
YOUTH
SLAVES
Scapegoating kids
doesn't work when it comes to trying to "protect" them online
REAL
STEAL
If it's cool to
steal software and music online, why not start snaring the good
stuff in the real world?
ALONE
ONLINE?
True community
exists on the Web, and there's no tragedy in a rich life lived there
REBOOTING
REVENUE
Net taxation with
some hesitation
KING
BLUETOOTH
That bird's nest
of wires behind your computer is going to disappear soon
PARIS
BY NET
Surfing to the
City of Light
EMAIL
ENVY
A trashy address
is not an option
COME
AS YOU ARE
Bellying up with
the celebrities of Web porn
PLUGGED
INTO PROTEST
E-activists rally
on the Web, but can they build a movement?
ADS
ABOUT FUCKING
With advertisers
paying to access the site's strong demographics, Fuckedcompany.com
eyes profitability
DON'T
SPEAK
New Jersey teen
Brett Banfe gets set to go a year without talking, but what exactly
is the point of his NotSpeaking.com quest?
SAFETY
NET
The great library
debate: First Amendment advocates vs. protectors of children
OPEN
WIDE
We're being force
fed by a new electronic entertainment statew
HANG
IT UP
Everybody's on
the Internet nowadays, so who needs a phone?
TEXTBOOK
PLAY
Spend time online,
not in line, at college textbook sites
MONEY
FOR NOTHING
Pay-to-surf sites
battle hackers to prevent them from getting too much of a good thing
HOUSE
OF STYLE
Attractive computers
are easier to use, so why are we still plugged into beige boxes?
JUKEBOXES
TO GO
New hardware will
help extract you and your MP3s from your computer
MISUNDERSTOOD
MESSIAH
Is Internet Jesus
a false prophet, or prurient prankster?
NAPSTER
NATION
Another vital community
springs up on the Net
NAPSTER
NO MORE
With 20 million
users and counting, it's a bona fide social phenomena. So even if
the courts eventually do brand Napster illegal, why is it so damn
popular?
FIRE
STARTER
Napster's near-death
experience will only fuel more online music trading
AFTER
NAPSTER
How new technology
will change music itself
TOO
REVEALING?
The Smoking Gun
picks a copyright fight with panty peddler Victoria's Secret
DOTCOM
DOOMSAYERS
The party's not
over yet, but there's a lot of misery out there that would like
some company
DEAR
EVERYONE
Online diarists
show us a little more
SPANK
YER MONKEY
For an animated
dose of dark, biting humor, visit the Joe Cartoon site
INTERFACE
RACE
The new Windows
interface, Whistler, looks like a Web page, while Apple's new operating
system concentrates on the skins game
THE
GOOD OLD DAYS
Eight-MHz processors
and 1,200-baud modems had a few things going for them
BAD
CALL
By effectively
restricting sites its customers can visit, wireless telcos take
away the most beautiful thing about the Web
UNPLUGGED
The world's digital
divide might be too far for some countries to cross
HIT
MEN
Three winners have
emerged from the Napster trial: entertainment lawyers, the entertainment
media and the major labels
GENDER
GLITCH
The percentage
of info-tech jobs held by women is actually decreasing--and they
pay less than those taken by men
JOB
GO BOOM
Six ways to tell
your high-tech employer is going down
ELECTRONIC
ANARCHY
Hacking gives the
world's oppressed a fighting chance
BUYCONS
IN THE PICTURE
An online shopping
initiative takes away the heavy lifting
CYBERSNACKING
Exploring sites
for hungry eyes
STALKING
ILLEGAL GAME
With its new Carnivore
"data sniffer" technology, the FBI can troll through millions of
email messages for criminal behavior
GOOD
HELP IS HARD TO FIND
Ten realistic ways
Webcos can recruit and keep those elusive good employees
CYBER
CONTRACTS
The e-signature
law allows you to sign on the electronic line
JENNISCAM?
JenniCam has suddenly
fallen head over heels in love. Any subsequent spike in traffic
will, of course, be a coincidence.
YAHOO!
VS. FRANCE
Frenchies are upset
with the portal for auctioning Nazi memorabilia. But do they have
the right to demand retribution?
SUSPICIOUS
MINDS
Can the World Wide
Web Consortium address some of the Internet's online privacy concerns?
THE
FUTURE IS THERE
Japan's cell-phone
innovations give us a glimpse into the communications world to come
POWER
IN NUMBERS
Distributed computing
taps a vast resource of unused power in idle PCs
GETTING
PERSONAL
The Web moves ever
closer to embracing the concept of extreme personalization
WEB
VIDEOS ROCK!
Why go to Blockbuster
when it's all at your computer?
TITAN
A.I.
Predicting the
bright future of artificial intelligence
ROCKING
IN THE FREE WORLD
Streaming audio
may be the new face of legal free music
FREE
OFFICE SUPPLIES
If StarOffice doesn't
make you a believer in free software, nothing will
CYBERSEX
ED
A college course
studies sex online--past, present and future
SUN
SCREED
The government's
public flogging of Microsoft gives Sun Microsystems license to play
the Internet's new bully
NO
LABELS
It's not musicians
Napster is putting in jeopardy, it's the people manufacturing and
selling their CDs
WONDERING
WHO THE PIRATES ARE
In the debate between
those who enable music fans to download free tracks and the industry
insiders determined to stop them, it's difficult to choose sides
FLAMING
OUT
A Web homage to
"The Real World" ends with someone burning down the house
IT'S
WAR
For better and
for worse, file sharing is the next big thing in cyberspace
KEEPING
KOSHER
Visiting the new
home of Jewish "supersite" Zipple.com
COLD
STORAGE
Wading through
all the new storage options for your precious computer data
DOTCOM
DEAD POOL
FuckedCompany.com
feasts on the corpses of the Webco dead
AT
WHAT PRICE?
Priceline offers
bargains, but discourages comparisons for online consumers
SPY
GAMES
Why do employers
insist on using technology to violate worker privacy?
WEB
HEAD
An open letter
to Tim Berners-Lee
OBJECT-ORIENTED
EVERYTHING
Microsoft's OOP
plans are fairly compelling--and have some fairly big holes
NOT
PLAYING AROUND
Will a PlayStation
2 be your next personal computer?
SPECIAL
DELIVERY?
Kozmo.com storms
into its ninth city as some wonder whether the delivery service
might be too good to be true
LET'S
MAKE A HEAL
Casting a jaundiced
eye at online health sites
PRIVACY
FETISH
Why do we need
so much online privacy anyway?
VIRTUAL
PANTY RAID
Should a racy CD-ROM
game, in which players strip supermodels to their undies, be deleted
from store shelves?
DOT
COMMANDMENTS
The gospel according
to Webcos starts with "You shall have no other gods before media
synergy"
GRACE
OVER WIRES
Armed with the
Internet, men find their social prowess
BREAKING
UP IS HARD TO DO
Microsoft's antitrust
loss could destroy its vision of the future
THE
RHYTHMS OF SPAM
Learn to like it
and you might unlock the secrets of cyberspace
LONELYSHOPPER.COM
The battle for
online grocery consumers heats up, but the cyber-checkstand is no
place to meet Mr. Right
REAL
FREE SPEECH
Chip away at your
long-distance bill with Dialpad.com, but be prepared for some static
SINKING
UNDERWATER
Dotcom disillusionment
in a post-option world
POWER
PLAYED
Big telcos push
small ISPs out of the market with anticompetitive pricing schemes
CROSSING
THE DIGITAL DIVIDE
The day when your
refrigerator talks to you is closer than you think
A
GAME NO MORE
The writer's friend
traded reality for total immersion in a virtual world
ONLINE
MUSIC RETAILER WITH A DIFFERENCE
NY-based Insound's
independent online vibe hits the open road
UNDERWORLD
The dark side of
the Web includes stalkers and others who prey on the unsuspecting
COLLEGIATE
E-COMMERCE
Top schools enable
students to test start-ups without risking big bucks
REGAINING
THE LEAD?
The latest score
in the browser wars: Netscape 6, Explorer 5
JUST
THE BEGINNING
Looking beyond
the Napster battle, it seems clear that all media soon will be freely
traded online
THE
REAL MP3 PAYOFF
The debate about
MP3 technology is wedded to the idea of music as a commodity, but
the biggest payoff of Web music will be artistic
ON
THE eROAD
How to leave the
laptop at home and still stay connected
CYBER
STRIP MALL
The enormous electronic
flea market of eBay has become the kind of scumbag bazaar you pass
on a highway going 70 miles an hour
NAPTIME
Napster, Napster,
Napster. Sometimes you wish people would just shut up about the
damn thing.
EAR
WARS
Webcasters prepare
to steal radio listeners for good
CABLE
INVASIONS
Is your cable modem
a Web party line to your own hard drive?
HONEY,
I SHRUNK THE DOCTOR
When chemistry
and engineering join forces on a cellular level, it's time for nanotech
OPERATING
ON THE FRINGE
BePrepared for
the BeOS
YOU'VE
GOT SUBPOENA!
AOL goes after
the relationship writer behind "You've Got Male"
WHAT'S
GNU?
If MP3s and DVD
decryption had the media moguls scared, they ain't seen nothing
yet
MARKETING
MISHMASH
Attacking those
loser sites we can only call Useless Bandwidth Hogs
TRACKING
FIELD
Your boss may be
watching while you surf the Web at work
WHITE-KNUCKLE
TIME
What's a regular
investor to do about those roller-coaster tech stocks?
CAUGHT
NAPSTERING
Metallica's lawsuit
against Napster proves once and for all that the band sucks
PIRATES
OF THE AMAZOM
For all its convenience,
the Internet has proven a convenient place for similar-domain-name
pirates
YOU
DIG
The Web takes some
of the guesswork out of gardening
BASHING
THE BOYS
Although Chickclick
seems to promote feminist attitudes, it teaches empowerment through
degradation and domination
GIRL
GEEK MANIFESTO
No, it's not that
big a deal for a woman to be a technology expert--so get over it
already
WILL
METAL HEADS PREVAIL?
Metallica sues
Napster and three universities for copyright infringement
BETTING
ON NASDAQ
Gambling is the
reason technology stocks have been valued at such ridiculously high
prices
DIGITAL
REBELLION
Turning our backs
on email and the Internet
ONLINE
SWAPPING
Instead of buying
used goods from eBay, why not trade them at Xchangecity.com?
FALSE
PROFIT
Can fledgling bands
surf the cyber tidal wave to fame and fortune, or are sites like
MP3.com cashing in on a digital mirage?
BOYCOTT
AMAZON?
Did the Digerati
conspire to close ranks and protect one of their own?
JIVE
TALKIN'
A Napster forum
featuring cofounder Sean Parker is long on wind, but short on substance
MAKING
THE GRADE
Young entrepreneurs
get caught in the Net
KOZMOPOLITAN
Checking out an
Internet convenience mart that delivers everything from Pringles
to Prince CDs
NEXT-LEVEL
NETIQUETTE
It's time to rid
the world of dumb email--here's how
STEAL
THIS MUSIC
Debating the future
of Napster and digital delivery
VOODOO
HOODO
Advanced computer
graphics shift the game-writing focus to craftsmanship
DESKTOP
WORKOUTS
Where to tone up
online
BEYOND
THE VALLEY OF THE SILICON
San Francisco challenges
Silicon Valley for dot-com culture supremacy
UNPLUGGED
One woman explains
why she went offline
DUTY
FREE
Enjoy the Web's
tax-haven status while you can
INSIDER
TRADING
Hollywood Stock
Exchange and Popex bank on the investing power of celebrity
GASSED
OUT
Once again, an
Internet-fueled boycott comes up empty
WORLD
ON A STRING
If your musical
intentions involve an axe, then Guitar.com should be your new favorite
site
WEB
WINNERS
Partying coast
to coast with Webby Awards CEO Tiffany Shlain
DOT'S
ENTERTAINMENT
Tormenting the
worker bees of AskJeeves.com
TINY
TECH
New devices let
you carry the Internet in your pocket
SHARING
THE WARE
Open source software:
Free as in speech, not as in beer
RACIST
LIKE ME
A black writer
plays a hateful white guy on the Internet
ACCESS
FORBIDDEN
Thrilling access
to forbidden material has always been, and will always be, at the
heart of human experience on the Web
NET
NUPTIALS
Internet wedding
planners assist couples in getting to the church online
SPAM
ARTISTRY
Why a bill to regulate
spam is seriously misguided
SCREEN
SAVERS
Increased Internet
usage aids both doctors and patients
AIMING
HIGH
An ex-fighter pilot
zeroes in on Internet filtering initiatives
ETHER
MADNESS
Listening to faraway
stations on the Web is like taking a road trip of the mind
BURNING
MEN
Burn-one.com partners
with clubs and bands to create an extensive live-show archive
ALL-ACCESS
PASS
How broadband technology
will change modern life
GETTING
eFIT
A new Web site
claims to help break down barriers to weight loss
DAMN
THE HYPE
Enough already
with the black-and-white alarmism that marks the Internet wars
NO
SECURITY
Hackers upload
fear into e-business with denial-of-service attacks
LOVE
GOES OFFLINE
AOL chatroom buddies
start meeting in bars and clubs
EASY
PICKINGS
New technologies
like Beam-it and Napster make pirating music on the Web criminally
easy for everyone
FEEDING
THE GEEK
When you request
help from an info-tech geek, explain the problem, offer a soda,
and then get out of the way
COOKIE
CRUMBS
Web marketer DoubleClick
alarms privacy-minded netizens
TECHED
OFF
Has capitalism
wrecked the Web utopia?
WATCHING
OUT FOR WEBCASTS
A "how-to" and
"why did I bother" guide to Net radio
PDA
PUPPY LOVE
The personal digital
assistant scene starts to get interesting
FREE
WHERE
A guide to finding
the best free software on the Web
HERBS,
SPICES AND--OH MY GOD!
Online speculation
runs wild regarding the Colonel's secret recipe
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