Author Archives: Dan Gillmor

If the World Wide Web has any major theme, it’s linking. People use hypertext to point from one page to another, one site to another, and from one page inside a site to a page inside another site. This is … Continue reading →

Not all politicians are blind to the need for laws protecting people’s privacy, or at least putting some brakes on the wholesale violations we’re seeing every day by an assortment of Big and Little Brothers. One of the consequences of … Continue reading →

Or are Justice Department and states prosecuting the antitrust case losing their nerve? The latter is a lot more likely, based on history. A report in this morning’s Wall Street Journal (ZDNet) suggests that Microsoft is backing away from its … Continue reading →

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Give Microsoft credit for brazenness. It has lost on the facts at the antitrust trial and is about to lose on the law. Its stock price has been flat while the rest of the tech industry is soaring. Suddenly the … Continue reading →

At the close of business one of these days, Cisco Systems is likely to have become the most valuable company on Earth, moving ahead Microsoft Corp. in market capitalization. Assuming that happens, we’ll all note what a watershed it represents … Continue reading →

The corporate representatives on the Internet Tax Commission, which met in Dallas this week, gave a classic demonstration of how self-interest trumps good policy. They gave all appearances of trading their votes (AP) to the anti-tax crowd in return for … Continue reading →

Well, not exactly. But Bay Area universities — Berkeley and Stanford in particular — have a habit of giving leaves of absence to faculty members who become chief economists at the government agencies that have the most impact on the … Continue reading →

Call me old-fashioned, but I still get goosebumps when I look down Pennsylvania Avenue toward the Capitol dome. For all the sleaze and bad faith that sometimes seems to ooze from Congress, this is still the heart of the best … Continue reading →

Computing power — the mixture of faster processors, denser storage and higher bandwidth — will expand by a factor of about 100,000 in the next decade, some say. I say, “Yikes.” More in my Sunday column. Patent Nonsense Discussed in … Continue reading →