Monthly Archives: August 2000

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I can be a mighty dim bulb at times. But I finally understood what makes Napster so important, beyond the music: its architecture. More in my Sunday column. UPDATES: Robert Black points me to DialupDNS.com. Interesting… Jacob Levy writes to … Continue reading →

As predictable as it is discouraging, the online stock trading marketplace lures the gamblers among us, as the Wall Street Journal reports today. The Journal writes: For many Americans, online trading has gone from a novelty to a fixation in … Continue reading →

We’re a little closer to the day when .com, .org., .net and other well-known Internet address suffixes get some long-needed company. The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, or ICANN, announced on Thursday that it’ll begin taking applications next … Continue reading →

The dot-com media have descended on Philadelphia in big ways, according to various news outlets. Hungry to make their mark, online media roam GOP convention, is the headline on a story by Mary Anne Ostrom of the Mercury News. At … Continue reading →

Jim Warren, curmudgeon extraordinaire, writes: Have you noticed the almost-COMPLETE broadcast-media blackout of the well organized, well attended Shadow Convention, with its well-known speakers and calm, well-reasoned, *substantive* criticisms of (1) money in politics, (2) the failed but monumentally expensive … Continue reading →