Author Archives: Dan Gillmor

It’s before dawn in New Hampshire, and below zero degrees outside. They keep buses running all night, because the diesel fuel can turn into glop in this kind of cold. I covered politics in an earlier journalistic life. Today I’m … Continue reading →

What a week! AOL Time Warner; Gates gives Ballmer the CEO post; the government leaks someone’s wish to break up Microsoft; IBM goes Linux in a big way; and more. I try to connect some of these dots in my … Continue reading →

What a week! AOL Time Warner; Gates gives Ballmer the CEO post; the government leaks someone’s wish to break up Microsoft; IBM goes Linux in a big way; and more. I try to connect some of these dots in my … Continue reading →

I’m in Vermont this weekend, visiting close friends, on my way to New Hampshire today. There hasn’t been much snow or cold weather so far this season — at least until I arrived. I lived in this climate for three … Continue reading →

When Bill Gates says something outrageous or false, you get the distinct impression that he actually believes what he’s saying. With Steve Ballmer, the new chief executive at Microsoft Corp., it’s the opposite. The more off-the-wall the Ballmer remark, the … Continue reading →

The Clinton administration continues to play hide-and-seek (SiliconValley.com story) with truth when it comes to export regulation on strong encryption. The latest rules, while clearly a step forward, are plainly designed in part to keep the process as complex and … Continue reading →

Business 2.0 magazine is running a clever piece about New Power Centers spawned by the Web economy. Don’t expect utterly penetrating analysis, or anything totally original. It’s not news that Silicon Valley has plenty of competition. But some of the … Continue reading →

Nearly lost in the noise surrounding AOL’s buyout of Time Warner was some fairly big news about Microsoft. Our favorite monopolist forked over at least $150 million — and most likely a lot more — to settle a civil antitrust … Continue reading →

“Recollections of Early Paint Systems” is the topic of a talk tomorrow by technology pioneers Richard Shoup and Alvy Ray Smith. They’ll be speaking at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View. Comments

Nearly lost in the noise surrounding AOL’s buyout of Time Warner was some fairly big news about Microsoft. Our favorite monopolist forked over at least $150 million — and most likely a lot more — to settle a civil antitrust … Continue reading →