Author Archives: Dan Gillmor

The BBC is reporting a bizarre scheme, concocted by the British government and compliant academic researchers, to track cars by satellite to catch or even prevent speeding motorists. The idea is to build special gear into the car, and let … Continue reading →

Dave Farber has been named chief technologist at the Federal Communications Commission. This is good news. Farber, a professor at the University of Pennsylvania, is one of the classiest people in the telecommunications business. His combination of brains, skill, integrity, … Continue reading →

A potentially epic battle is shaping up in a San Jose courtroom, as the entertainment industry tries to put the clamps on Internet sites that post — or eve point to — a method of decrypting the foolishly weak security … Continue reading →

Dave Farber has been named chief technologist at the Federal Communications Commission. This is good news. Farber, a professor at the University of Pennsylvania, is one of the classiest people in the telecommunications business. His combination of brains, skill, integrity, … Continue reading →

Live, on tape and on the Net from Stanford University: the Doug Engelbart Colloquium. Do not miss this. At Davos, Power was Somewhat Relative The activist groups that upended the Seattle World Trade Organization meetings were at the World Economic … Continue reading →

January 1, 2000. It’s a great day to be alive. All things can be new today. Y2K Workers with Nothing to Do? A correspondent writes this morning: To the AP wire story saying that Microsoft had 300 technicians standing by … Continue reading →

A correspondent writes this morning: To the AP wire story saying that Microsoft had 300 technicians standing by with nothing to do, I observe “Well, they could have been fixing their existing non Y2K bugs”. Comments

January 1, 2000. It’s a great day to be alive. All things can be new today. Comments

The owners of the Year2000.com domain say they’ve auctioned off the domain name for $10 million. I’ll believe this when the deal closes and someone proves — not just claims — that the transaction actually occurred. I’m not going to … Continue reading →

It’s January 1, 2000 in Auckland, Sydney and Tokyo, but early in the morning New Year’s Eve in California. SiliconValley.com has dispensed with the usual format to do an ongoing weblog of events as the new day moves around the … Continue reading →