Author Archives: Dan Gillmor

The letters continue to pour in about my July 4 column, in which I worried about the United Kingdom’s descent toward a surveillance society. The ones that alarm me the most — thankfully there haven’t been many — suggest that … Continue reading →

Finland is the capital of the wireless phenomenon. When I first came here four or five years ago, this nordic nation was already the leader in per capita use of mobile phones. Finland’s teenagers pretty much invented SMS, the short … Continue reading →

It’s always important to take time out for thinking, for reflecting on the values and ways of our lives. We don’t do this nearly enough in Silicon Valley, and that’s a shame. More in my Sunday column. Comments

Dave Winer: The MicroChannel Architecture. Microsoft’s killer triumvirate is Passport, .NET and the secret sauce — HailStorm. It’s a total lockdown, just what IBM proposed after quelling the Apple-lead insurrection as they tried to dispose of Compaq and the cloners. … Continue reading →

Finland is the capital of the wireless phenomenon. When I first came here four or five years ago, this nordic nation was already the leader in per capita use of mobile phones. Finland’s teenagers pretty much invented SMS, the short … Continue reading →

It’s the Fourth of July, not a particularly noted holiday here in London. But in a couple of hours I’ll celebrate with some other Americans who are here to speak at a new media conference. Given the pervasive surveillance that … Continue reading →

Wall Street Journal: Kodak tangles with Microsoft over Win XP. Kodak’s story offers a snapshot of a now-familiar tale in the software business. Despite the government’s antitrust case against Microsoft, which was partly upheld and partly reversed by a U.S. … Continue reading →

I’ve received an absolute flood of mail about my Sunday column, in which I explained how I was going to disengage myself from Microsoft software. Surprisingly, only one message called me a moron. I’m compiling the gist of the messages … Continue reading →

I recently learned of yet another security hole in Microsoft Word. This one, a particularly nasty problem, could leave my computer totally open to malicious code in an RTF-formatted document. Naturally, I wanted to download and install the patch. I … Continue reading →

J.D. Lasica (Online Journalism Review): Cyberspace’s First Ombudsman. His dual roles are to serve as a readers representative and as an internal critic interacting with the site’s staff, all with an eye toward improving the news operation’s journalism. Comments