Author Archives: Dan Gillmor

I’m in Japan, where my IBM ThinkPad running Windows 2000 no longer allows PPP connections with Internet service providers. A call to IBM tech support led to the suggestion that I reinstall everything from scratch. So I’m using a friend’s … Continue reading →

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Time Magazine’s choice of New York’s mayor, Rudy Giuliani, as Person of the Year, is another example of Big Media’s increasing timidity. Giuliani deserves enormous praise for his leadership in the wake of the Sept. 11 attacks. But this feel-good … Continue reading →

We’ll always look back on 2001 as the year when America joined the real world in the most horrific way. The Sept. 11 murders did change us. Technology was central to those events. It will continue to be central in … Continue reading →

I loaded Virtual PC 5 for the Mac on an iBook with 384 megabytes of RAM, running OS 10.1, and the performance wasn’t just poor. The computer was unusable. Connectix admits there’s a serious problem, and says it lies largely … Continue reading →

Cnet: Microsoft seeks antitrust hearing delay. “If there is one thing that characterizes Microsoft’s conduct in this case even more than denial, it is delay, delay, delay,” Tom Miller, Iowa attorney general and one of the states’ leaders, said in … Continue reading →

Given the Bush administration’s fondness for corporate interests and its disdain for enforcing laws designed to enhance competition, it seems likely that Comcast, the Philadelphia-based cable-TV company, will be permitted to buy AT&T’s cable and broadband unit (AP). Given the … Continue reading →

Glenn Fleishmann: Public Space Wi-Fi’s Transforming Event. Boingo will build no hot spots. Instead, they are aggregating the network infrastructure of other companies and wrapping it up through a single user account, a single bill, and a single set of … Continue reading →

Dave Winer and his UserLand Software colleagues think bloggers deserve their own awards, and was kind enough to nominate this weblog, among others, for one of them. I’m honored. I see that they’ve excluded the UserLand sites from consideration. That’s … Continue reading →

At the World Economic Forum annual meeting in early 2000, then-President Bill Clinton gave a speech of clarity and common sense — embracing globalization but warning that globalization had to occur with less secrecy and more inclusion of the have-nots. … Continue reading →