Author Archives: Dan Gillmor

Here’s a good reason not to fly with Northwest Airlines. Attacks on the Web Let’s get one thing straight first. The attacks on popular Web sites (Mercury News story) are not about security, per se. No one is trying to … Continue reading →

Yesterday at the annual Demo show we saw lots and lots of server-side Internet applications, as I note in my Tuesday column. Today is Internet Appliance day. Lots of cool stuff on tap, some of which I talked about in … Continue reading →

Plenty of cool stuff will be demonstrated at the Demo 2000 conference today and tomorrow. Above is Lernout & Hauspie’s prototype of a voice-enabled personal organizer. More about this and other appliance-type gadgets in today’s column. Above left, Jean-Louis Gassee … Continue reading →

I’m at the annual Demo technology trade show in southern California. Demo is held each year at the Renaissance Esmeralda resort in Indian Wells, Calif. Many of the attendees get here early to play golf, laze by the pool or … Continue reading →

The activist groups that upended the Seattle World Trade Organization meetings were at the World Economic Forum annual meeting in Davos, Switzerland. But they weren’t just the people protesting on the street, I note in Friday’s column. McCain’s Web Site … Continue reading →

The latest evidence of Web insecurity looks pretty darn scary to me. Does Apple Own Your Work? Maybe, if you decide to use Apple’s online tools, according to this story in Macworld Online. Competition Makes a Difference Don’t get the … Continue reading →

It’s the last day of Davos 2000, the annual meeting of the World Economic Forum. Many people have departed, and the weather is so perfect outside that I suspect many others are skiing. Throughout my week here I’ve been picking … Continue reading →

Except for President Clinton’s speech here on Saturday, no session at the World Economic Forum’s annual meeting had the star-power of this morning’s panel, entitled “Winning strategies for the Internet race” and featuring (from left in picture above) AOL’s Steve … Continue reading →

It’s been snowing steadily for more than 24 hours as I write this. Bill Clinton is long gone from the World Economic Forum’s annual meeting, and while the Davos streets are still busy the intensity level has diminished somewhat. One … Continue reading →

Before President Clinton spoke at the World Economic Forum meeting in Davos, Switzerland, today, the audience in the big meeting hall was asked to leave while a security sweep was done of the room. Many of the corporate and government … Continue reading →