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2009

July

• Washington Post pay-for-access event for lobbyists

June

• Twitter-enhanced luminary spectacle, indeed

• The lost manuscripts: Mac hypermedia introduction and overview

• Wall Street Journal finds the bottom

• Risen and Lichtblau discover more NSA abuses of FISA

• Like starting over

• Oh good grief: Paywalls return

• Kill GM to save US industrial infrastructure

• Typekit: Typography for the web… finally… really?

May

• The deadbeats of the credit card industry aren’t who you think

• Want to move to Amsterdam? It’s not moving here

• Merck and Elsevier publish fake medical journal

April

• Reverse merit pay

• Credibility ranking systems

• Obama’s claims of executive power worse than Bush’s

• Berman uses invalid data to call for stronger intellectual property laws

• Consumer Reports fails epically on refrigerator ratings

• What the hell happened to Frontline?

• Abandon Zambrano not Wrigley

• The trouble with Twitter

• How I got my biker scar

March

• Clotted fistula

• Bernie Sanders introduces single-payer healthcare reform bill

• Health insurers see writing on wall, cave on pre-existing conditions

• Yikes: mega drop-down navigation actually works pretty well

• Follow the power, not just the money

• University faculty partaking of big pharma payola again

• Openness and transparency indeed: The copyright cartel is at it again

• Obama telegraphs reversal on taxing health benefits

• Get out the pitchforks

• The unthinkable scenario

• CNN gets it wrong on single-payer. Surprised?

• Forget newspapers; worry about the survival of journalism

• Nationalization, mark to market, or a middle way

• Limbaugh, the inverse conservative

• Paired organ donation software launched at DEMO

• Missed martial law and the end of democracy by that much

February

• Medpedia publicly debuts

• The internet is falling and can’t get up. Again.

• Blood money

• Dialyzing while high found to be beneficial

January

• Epoetin use increases by a factor of four in dialysis patients

• Double-plus for Obama on first full day

• The virtuous circle of enhanced Medicare for all

• 100 million credit and debit accounts leaked

• How much does independent journalism cost?

• Usability problems with the Airbus A320

• Incompetence or malfeasance?

• On the privacy of Steve Jobs

• Any business model in a storm

• Fixing the US financial system’s problems

• Routing around damage

2008

December

• The problem with home vacations

• Revisiting Tom Wolfe’s New Journalism

• Have they all become General Motors?

• Sudden cardiac death linked to dialysis

• Missing media serendipity

• Huffington Post accused of copyright infringement

• The political class and exemption from the rule of law

• Paid vacation: what a concept

• The end-stage renal disease phosphorous dilemma

• The university tuition dilemma

November

• Buy nothing day 2008

• News from the users’ perspective

• How the Masters of the Universe got that way

• The next 6,500 days

• Election night with the master

• Holding my nose once again

October

• Universal Studios oversteps copyright law

• Security theater

• Universal healthcare v. universal healthcare insurance

• Obama administration media transparency? Don’t count on it

• Motivating the banks the simple way

• Why we hate Wall Street executives

• Step aside, we’re coming through

September

• Socialism almost comes to America

• Here comes welfare for the super-rich

• No financial Patriot Act

• Fool me once…

• Capitalism doesn’t scale

• Liability insurance for independent media

• DaVita closes another dialysis unit

• Spinewatch will change political coverage

• Remembering to remember

• Open source journalism: Watching magazine sausage being made

• Affidavit purported to outline RNC conspiracy plans

• Instant ubiquitous reporting changes everything

August

• The importance of habeas corpus

• I love the smell of fascism in the morning

• Wake up

• Joe Biden: Wrong on both the net and tech

• Full recovery; time for vacation

• A shaky recovery?

• Recovering from a train wreck

• Recovering from a train wreck

July

• Lawrence Lessig: Change Congress

• Study finds ESRD patients less likely to get cardiovascular medicine

• Fair use and the DMCA

• A tale of two papers

• They’re back….

• FISA revision bill passes US Senate

• Bush’s warrantless wiretaps whacked

• Has Boing Boing jumped the shark?

June

• Last ditch plans to derail FISA bill in US Senate

• The most important number on the planet: 350

• Elbow-leading health advocates

• Congress caves on US wiretap law

• Oh noes, White Lily is done

• White House Office of Administration immune from FOIA requests

• Online citizen journalism seen as threat

• Taking a sledgehammer to an ant

• Verizon, Sprint, and Time Warner agree to censor net

• Nielsen on writing styles

• As journalism goes, so goes democracy

• Alton Kelley dead at 67

May

• Sound nirvana

• Dialyzing in the middle of Puget Sound

• Minnesota not ready for single-payer health coverage after all

• Merely a COG in Main Core

• Does Cisco help the Chinese censor dissent?

• FBI drops national security letters in face of lawsuits

• Conservatives support federal shield law

• Tech support as if it mattered

• Laptops can be searched at US border without cause

• Morality and metrics in dialysis

• Heparin contamination: motivated by greed

April

• Still seeking a publishing business model

• Atom feed deprecated

• Bush to expand domestic surveillance

• Confiscate the Northwest Airlines gates

• Apocalyptic banking system collapse

• Kerouac meets Tufte

• Comcast pulls more “scarce” bandwidth out of ass; corporate media fawns

• Searches for “abortion” on Popline blocked

• A simple fix for the mortgage crisis

• Deck chairs and bigger shovels

March

• Dialysis nightmares

• Comcast reverses policy, pledges to treat all packets equally

• Total Information Awareness: Back from the dead

• Bell Canada throws your packets away

• Organ waiting list is overstated by one third

• What happens when the dollar collapses?

• Making it in the long tail

• Rethinking the economics of home hemodialysis

• User experience tips from a software engineer

• Anonymous kidney donations in Boston

• Another trip to the hospital

• Network neutrality = common carriage

• Dialysis costs revealed

February

• To Twitter or not to Twitter

• PowerPoint zen

• Never trust a fart

• Minnesota one step closer to single-payer health coverage

• No you can’t

• Back on the air

• Yes we can

January

• Lies and the lying liars who told them

• Usability refresher

• Best argument yet for single-payer healthcare

• Growing organs in vats

• Technology holds key to altruistic kidney donation

• FCC to enter network neutrality fray

• Republicans expose strategy against single-payer universal coverage healthcare

• What have you changed your mind about?

2007

December

• The tyranny of the gift

• So long Google AdSense, it’s been good to know ya

• Freelancer copyright agreement overturned

November

• Hemoglobin variability predicts risk of death

• Hart v. Comcast

• I thought the CSS wars were settled

• Murdoch unwalls the Journal

• Kidneys (for a fee) in a cooler

• Universities as copyright police

October

• No competion for ESRD anemia drugs

• Delete your server logs

• Network neutrality no longer enough

• Who’s in your calling circle?

• Nacchio alleges warrantless wiretapping program predates 9/11

• Democrat majority to cave on civil liberties

• The race to the bottom of the dialysis barrel

September

• Two Patriot Act provisions struck down

• Survey shows kidney patients concerned about Medicare

• Knowing how many turds were in the bowl before you flushed

• DaVita under fire for Epogen overuse

• Vietnam all over again

• Rehearsal for the next year’s Republican National Convention

August

• The great US bandwidth scam

• The information access warrior

• Even more domestic surveillance on the way

• Agent Smith goes to Washington

• DaVita second-quarter profit nearly doubles

• Bush pushes for retroactive wiretapping authority

July

• Medicare modifies dialysis anemia monitoring policy

• Hello Mac, it’s been a while

June

• The remedy for American health care’s pre-existing condition

• An executive branch out of control

• Dialysis in pictures

• A step closer to growing our own replacement organs

• Back to the Mac

May

• Reality TV kidney competition

• Toward a sustainable net neutrality

• Berkeley investigative reporting fellowships

• Wired package on Indian organ scandal

• Yet another argument against corporate personhood

• A revanchist fantasy revealed

• Rosenfeld information architecture seminar

April

• The sound of one journalist flapping

• Preventable pneumonia

• And the walls come tumbling down

• Dialysis-related sepsis risk lowered with statins

• EMI and the end of DRM

March

• Aspirin cuts risk of staph infection in dialysis patients

• Big pharma payola

• Trying to figure out Twitter

• Increasing organ donation by changing the definition of dead

• National security letter report

• The unseen hand, outstreched and palm up

• Linux sustainability

• New kidney transplant allocation proposal

• New verb alert: Klein-spiked

• Consuming our way to salvation

February

• Datamining your travel records

• National Kidney Foundation’s conflict of interest

• Jobs baits, RIAA spins

• A step toward open source design

January

• Paul Krassner on Chicago 10

• Windows Vista upgrade clean install workaround

• Apple whacked with bloggers’ legal fees

• Bush wants to tax health insurance benefits

• FISA Court to oversee domestic wiretapping

• Natural and unnatural cycles

• Publishers Group West and parent are bankrupt

• Not the best time to be an end-stage renal disease patient

2006

December

• Radical transparency

• Kidney transplant and the mathematics of “net lifetime survival benefit”

• Ways and Means committee hearing on end-stage renal disease patient safety and quality issues

• The future of the book

• National Kidney Foundation to assess epogen use

November

• Gingrich calls for reexamination of first amendment

• Guardian interview with Robert Pirsig

• Anemia or heart problems: take your pick

• Warrantless wiretapping legalization bill

• The Zune vig

• Welcome Web 3.0, seriously

• The wisdom of the news

October

• 2007 TED Prize winners announced

• Bill Moyers on network neutrality

• Transparency is binary

• Apple’s arrogance

• Opting out of Linkedin

• Declining dialysis quality of care

• Another day, another signing statement

September

• Freechasing and paying the bar tab

• Advancing hypertext

August

• Diagnostic dyes can cause kidney function loss

• Federal judge rules warrantless wiretap program illegal

July

• University of Minnesota appointment

• EFF lawsuit can proceed

• Net neutrality and unintended consequences

• Tufte’s Beautiful Evidence

• Rocketbust

• China to crack down on journalism

• Buying drinks so you can watch the strippers

• USA Today retracts part of NSA phone surveillance story

June

• Net neutrality amendment defeated in US Senate

• Government quietly drops demand for library records

• New York Times under fire

• First Amendment challenge in Minneapolis

• TEDTalks debut

• The dark side of stem cells

• Supremes to hear global warming case

• Digg.com broadens its coverage

• Corporate media online report card

• Bush administration accessing financial records

• All your data belongs to AT&T

• Minnesota’s loan-a-geek proposal

• Net neutrality isn’t enough

• Your papers please

• Access to Better Choice in Dialysis Act introduced

• Introducing the Qwest PPC-6700Q wiki and website changes

• US House rejects net neutrality bill

• Utne alumni party

• Moving back to farces.com

May

• First Amendment works on the internet

• The hydra sprouts another head

• More on the NSA phone call database

• NSA even spookier than we thought

• Dialysis patients: take your vitamin D

• Bad news for dialysis patients

• Twin Cities Daily Planet launches

April

• Journalists as criminals under espionage laws

• State Secrets Privilege to be used against EFF

• Round one loss on network neutrality

• Congresspedia shows promise

• The new politics starts with network neutrality

• Google disappears Tibet

• Your ISP as cop

• Keeping secrets in the Bush white house

• Doing it like a salamander

March

• Morals needed in healthcare crisis and reform

• Open source business management

• Handling the blogosphere with rubber gloves

• Republican bill to allow warrantless wiretapping

• I want that US$200 per month health insurance

• Art Buchwald refuses dialysis

• USA Patriot Act is renewed

• Stay home on caucus night

• Maybe there’s something to Fon after all

February

• Utne’s media player

• McNealy sees a market for privacy after all

• Introducing the disclosure box

• Not your sister’s Nancy Drew

• Newspaper trade group calls search engines kleptomaniacs

January

• AT&T delivers for the NSA

• Google is evil (and not just in China)

• Head Lemur on network neutrality

• The flip side of the comment question

• What’s to become of comments

• Is Bayosphere folding?

• Customary historic use

• The Anti-Lessig Reader

• US Justice Department subpoenas Google search data

• Here come the warrantless wiretap lawsuits

• The two-tiered internet

• Forcing free speech

• Albert Hofmann turns 100

• Congressional analysis questions legality of warrantless wiretaps

• Minnesota weblog defamation case

• Top Justice Department officials may not have approved Bush’s warrantless wiretaps

2005

December

• One more reason not to have a transplant

• US agency datamining efforts

• Wiretapgate plot broadens (and deepens)

• Dan Gillmor to launch Center for Citizen Media

• More on Bush’s criminal wiretaps

• Twin Cities pro-citizen journalism hybrid

• Bush secretly ordered spying on citizenry

• Failing dialysis care in DC

November

• Grateful Dead pull archive

• Wearable artificial kidney

• Domestic surveillance through national security letters

October

• ESRD medications

• Consumer Reports wants to be the new TRUSTe

• New York Times on being a patient

• Here comes the tax man

• Paul Otlet: information architecture forefather

• Kurt Vonnegut’s In These Times opus

• Atom feed is broken

• The future of software

• Bush the propagandist

September

• Google and copyright infringement

• The paywall and authority

• Hurricane Katrina aid

August

• Switching to Google Talk

• Welcome the national corporate media back to the game

• Pop… there goes the bubble

• Lying with graphics

• Minnesota nice

• comScore surveys the blogosphere

• Information authority and ranking

• Comparing US and EU privacy

• Amazon’s long tail not so long

• Field recording for the new millennium

• If the thunder don’t get you

• ExpressionEngine/MySQL hacker gig

July

• Blackened eyes at Cisco and BusinessWeek

• Politics as usual in Miami

• The coming judicial appointment wars

• I’m embarrassed to call you my colleague

• Get a kidney transplant, die of rabies

• Pew documents the spyware threat

• IBM service adventure

• Bush administration secrecy

June

• Hello Attensa

• MN representatives have RSS feeds

• June Brashares trial begins

• Migrating to a paywall: an interactive case study

• Librarians resist informer role

• Microsoft mudslide

• Sex and podcasting

• The Downing Street memo

• SustainLane US city rankings

• The throat deepens….

• The Triple P Scale

May

• Deep Throat outs himself

• Association Dialysis Advocates: Improving care for kidney patients

• Bankruptcy off the rails revisited

• You’ve been Dvorkined

• They can’t off-shore dog shit

• Springtime ballpark fever

• No first strike: forgotten wisdom

• The blogosphere gets the real story

April

• Bankruptcy off the rails

• The Jeff and Larry show

• What is it about Microsoft and security?

March

• US$18 million Tasini Settlement

• Minnesota mandatory health insurance

• Dialysis patients need vitamin D injections

• Pud’s back!

• IBM’s FairUCE

• Ethics tables turned

• Legal fiction cubed

• Choice: Social Security and the word no mirror can turn around

• Blogger catfight

• The online container problem

• The big stick: social insecurity in old age

February

• Blogosphere ethics and business models

• HST: 1937 - 2005

• House of indecency

• Skewering Michael Wolff

• McAfee wi-fi scan: good idea; poor implementation

• Too human to patent?

• MedicineNet.com on dialysis

January

• Thinkertoys

• More insurance for insurers: ERISA’s impact on working citizens

• Gridlock and radio wars up on the far edge

• Newt’s second act: healthcare reform

• Understanding syndication and information authority

• Municipal wireless may be coming to Saint Paul

• Advanced hypertext on the web

• Pew on blogging

• Journalism 4.0

2004

December

• Flashback!

• Possible solution to embryonic stem cell moral issue

• From kidney transplants to face transplants in 50 years

• Bad moon rising for ‘non-profit’ healthcare

November

• TiVo gets into the act

• Here we go again

October

• Heads up: more changes

• Healthcare and the profit motive redux

• Healthcare and the profit motive: a moral issue

• So long RSS

• At last, accurate dialysis needle sticks

• Nick Coleman, deconstructed

• The package v. the package deal

September

• Mike O’Connor’s Safe Haven

• When elections become commerce

• Rathergate and the media’s liberal bias

• API’s Monetize the Web seminar

• Project Censored 2005

August

• Same event; different lenses

• Republican drugs

• Passing on a kidney transplant

• Prepare for another surprise

• Hastert’s wet dream: Cookie crumbs anyone?

• Time to nationalize pension shedders

July

• Experiencing MacAuliffe

• Abundance, scarcity, and the drawbridge syndrome

• Bush blocks patient injury recoveries

• Time to get a gun

• Weird enough yet, Doc?

June

• The Hatching of the INDUCE Act

• A country of narcoleptic amnesiacs

• Babies in poverty; capitalism off the rails

• The Enron tapes

May

• The anti-war disconnect

• Advocacy and regulation in the Bush administration

• Why I won’t accept a kidney transplant

• Six Apart and transparency

• The turning of AARP

• Substance in Moore-Disney rasslin’?

• Christopher Allen’s four flavors of privacy

• Time right for magablogs?

• DMCRA finally gets a hearing

• The Michael Moore professional rasslin’ show

• Northsiders vs. southsiders

• Masters of war

• Mutiny in Iraq

• U.S. surveillance shifts from criminals to terrorists

April

• The infinite loop of the USA PATRIOT Act

• Super staph on the loose

• ACM interview with Douglas Engelbart

• American trash

• It’s like a ghost is writing a song like that

• Does a non-disclosure agreement trump a privacy policy?

• The Center for American Progress fact-check’s Condi’s ass

• Carleton University interviews Donald Norman

• Planning for Armageddon

• Steve Yelvington: looking both ways

March

• There’s people in there

• Democracy in Iraq?

• ExpressionEngine public beta 2 installed

• Norwegian milk money

• License to lie: How Congress avoids embarrassment

• Noam Chomsky has a weblog

• US$3.3 million study comparing home and in-center dialysis

• TypeKey: Passport with training wheels

• The Congressional Accountability for Judicial Activism Act of 2004

• A riddle wrapped in an enigma surrounding a gap

• Power of nanopublishing

• You want stem cells? Harvard’s got stem cells

• Rising kidney transplant failure rate

• FBI’s latest wiretap wish list

• An amendment that doesn’t distract

• Progressives are getting a sense of humor

• Syndicating summaries or full content

• EFF challenges FCC broadcast flag ruling

• Version the tenth

• Heads up—major breakage on the way

February

• Ducks in a row

• Feds investigate National Lawyers Guild activism

• Minnesota healthcare mandate

January

• Al Franken body slams Dean heckler

• District court judge strikes part of USA PATRIOT Act

• The tyranny of copyright

• Republican staffers may have hacked Democrat computers

• Saint Paul passes USA PATRIOT Act resolution

• More lying liars

• Michael Moore endorses Wesley Clark

• Comical Ali the television pundit

• CIA-backed secret police coming to Iraq

• Shrub implements part of USA PATRIOT II

• Single payer now

2003

December

• Bush signs “you can spam” act

• Creative Commons celebrates one-year anniversary

• So we finally got Saddam

• From COINTELPRO to FISA in a generation and a half

• RSS 1.0 feed update (new URL)

• Accessible activism

• System update (again)

• It’s worse than yellow snow, George

November

• Buy nothing day

• Howard Dean calls for business re-regulation

• The power of images

• Time magazine censors itself

• Outing Bush’s Ministry of Propaganda

• EFF and the doctrine of pre-emptive litigation

October

• Stem cell traction

• Died too young

• The possibility of regeneration

• Online systems consolidation

• Unfair, unbalanced, and wrong

• You’ve been Roved

September

• What’s the frequency, Dick?

• Ashcroft and the stenographers

• Eat the rich

• Utne intern summarizes Cancun WTO ministerial

• Utne Tradewatch

• EFF petition

• Are you safer now?

• Stranger than fiction redux

• He lived like a warrior; died like one too

• Searching for online publishing business models

• Bone protein may reverse kidney failure

• The illusion of Howard Dean

August

• John Ashcroft’s magical misery tour

• More on RSS for publishers

• Golf carts on sticks

• Weblogging on the campaign trail

• Watermarks are for stationery

• You can’t make this stuff up

• RSS will replace email as Internet publishing medium

• The Terminator and the Omaha Oracle

• Consumers on top or bottom?

• Here we go again: VICTORY Act

• What liberal bias?

July

• What a difference a day makes

• Do-not-call list too successful

• Minnesota telegate

• Joichi Ito on micropublishing

• Dean’s questions for Bush

• What’s wrong with book publishing

• John Gilmore: “suspected terrorist”

• Newspaper strike brewing in Saint Paul

• Shrub’s trifecta

• Unelectable by Labor Day

• We didn’t elect your friends

• Boat rage in the land of 10,000 lakes

• Justice Sandra Day O’Connor nearly clobbered by Constitution

• Yesterday’s traitors

• Buckminster Fuller Institute EARTHscope

• Yet another online revenue model: read over their shoulders

June

• System update

• Reason on the transplant question

• The MoveOn primary

• Orrin Hatch wants to break your computer

• End hunger by taxing weapons sales

• Fighting a multi-fronted (scandal) war

• Information authority redux

• The restorative power of place

May

• Information authority

• Shock and awe: One American’s view of health care

• The bifurcated ethics of Donald Rumsfeld

• Shaking and quaking at the Times

• Holding industry responsible for the actions of its customers

• Feeling the boot heel of the Patriot Act

• US recording industry determined to implode

• Shocking news: William J. Bennett is a gambler

• What doesn’t the Bush administration want us to know about 9/11?

April

• Corporate free speech and citizen authority

• Best email bounce message ever

• Penises and bandwith

• The right shows signs of a sense of humor

March

• Find the cost of freedom

• International Women’s Day march

• Shrub’s credibility gap

• Patriot II: the sequel

• Making spam safe in Minnesota

February

• World-class journalism in City Pages

• What happens to spam?

• Peace demonstration as treason

• Sky king

January

• Doc Searls on the metaphorical context of Eldred

• U.S. Supreme Court upholds Eldred

• Ten things to ask your employer

2002

December

• Changing directions

November

• Architectural changes

• Political pay-day for television broadcasters

• Free the market

• Pssst! Sell Kristof a clue?

• Dan Gillmor on cartel capitalism

• Norm Coleman’s acceptance speech

• Minnesota to telemarketers: Bug off

• A new generation gap

• The tide is turning, part two

• The tide is turning

• Bad code in Washington

• Hey Fritz! Over here, Fritz

• Microsoft proposed settlement approved

• Pixelview interview

October

• Technology Consumer Bill of Rights

• Senator Paul Wellstone 1944 - 2002

• GAO study reveals 10% of public firms restated earnings since 1997

• Keeping faith with the faithless (part three of three)

• Minor architectural changes to the website

• Senator Paul Wellstone reported dead in plane crash

• Keeping faith with the faithless (part two of three)

• Keeping faith with the faithless (part one of three)

• Information Eclipse available online again

• Small signs of life in the computer industry

• Minneapolis StarTribune endorses Andrew Koebrick

• Eldred v. Ashcroft oral argument transcript available

• Shrub squashes electric car requirements

• Clay Shirky on the amateurization of publishing

• Microsoft switches off

• Oddsmaker WUSTL on Eldred v. Ashcroft

• Vietnam and the net

• Mitch Ratcliffe on weblog disclosure ethics

• Why of course the people don’t want war

• Bowling for Columbine opens tomorrow

• Eldred v. Ashcroft—live and in person

• Security to be profit center at Microsoft

• Digital Choice and Freedom Act

• The coming copyright storm

• Northwest Airlines, the free market, and sustainability

• Mental engineering

September

• Bill O’Reilly exposed

• Itanium 2 a flop?

• Global warming and air pollution trends report

• Reading is fundamental

• My whole world lies waiting behind door number three

• One medium under God

August

• Apple says DVD burning okay only on its equipment

• Internet too moral-free for News Corp. president

• How many planets are needed to support your lifestyle?

• Gnomedex: leaving Iowa

• Gnomedex: Leo Laporte

• Gnomedex: Evan Williams

• Gnomedex: Doc Searls

• Gnomedex: Phil Kaplan

• Gnomedex: Saturday morning

• Gnomedex: blogroll

• Gnomedex: Friday afternoon sessions

• Gnomedex: virus hoax comedy tour

• Gnomedex: arrival

• Off to Gnomedex

• RIAA feels its oats

• European Union considers telecommunications privacy changes

• Medical data privacy rollback

• The war against customers

• Lost votes

• Hepatitis C screening

• Worst July ever

• Berger is first Minnesota Green to qualify for public campaign financing

• Lawrence Lessig—Free culture

• McGaa—smells like hostility from the get-go

• Smells like… politics as usual

July

• Welcome to ARTS & FARCES internet 9.0

• National 4-H Technology Conference copyright presentation

• The scariest man in technology

• Who is comScore and what are they up to?

• Entertainment industry wants to make fair use illegal

• Minneapolis StarTribune endorses instant runoff voting

• Life sentences for crackers

• Peer-to-peer air travel

• Blogs for the sick and a dialysis update

• Microsoft’s Palladium is really a global money-flow tax

• Microsoft’s Palladium

• Harvard Internet law conference

• Janis Ian on Internet music sharing

• Democracy package announcement

• Voters’ holiday

• Coon Rapids parade pictures

• The poor are here; where are the republicrats

• Pentel interview on KMSP Good Day Minnesota

• Ken Pentel’s aloha

• NPR linking policy

• CARP update

• Entertainment industry should hack with impunity

June

• Adult stem cell breakthrough

• Pin the tail on the donkey

• CALEA deadline approaches

• Advertising truth commission

• The fist of five

• Music piracy not hurting recording industry after all

• The irrelevancy of local television news

• Progressive media: pro-Democrat and anti-Green?

• Shrub’s next target: the Clean Air Act

• As much justice as you can buy

• The case for dumb plumbing

• Jack Valenti and the Boston Strangler

• Celine Dion killed my iMac

• Library filtering law overturned

• FBI incompetence garners broader monitoring

• Engineers should engineer not write (their own docs)

• Carnivore pukes; film at 11:00

• What did he know and when did he know it?

• Grand Old Day 2002

• Only oligarchs benefit from rising productivity

May

• John Robb on the new economy

• Politics are like trains

• Pushback on proposed Medicare bill

• Ted Waitt’s cow is more clueful than Fortune

• Bush the Lesser cedes regulatory process to the regulated

• Creative Commons website goes live with technology overviews

• John Gilmore on protecting content

• The writethrough problem

• The move toward protected commercial speech

• NIH clinical trial for dialysis

• Proposed Medicare bill and dialysis payments

• U.S. Treasury survey on financial information sharing

• Adam Curry: The big lie

• Lawrence Lessig on dinosaurs taking over

• Long boom or long fizzle

• Megnut on usurping the design process

• Watching the detectives

• Minnesota CEO pay rises 18% in 2001

• New York Times on Tom Waits

• Solar ice

• Toward a sustainable independent publication

• Brief history of the pledge of allegiance

• Location matters for real estate, not publishing

• CARP and a silent Mayday

April

• The new WWW: web services, weblogs, and WiFi

• Real Joe

• ReVisioning conference notes

• Steve MacLaughlin on taking the ‘r’ out of free

• Roger Clark’s CFP 2002 notes

• Dan Gillmor’s CFP 2002 assessment

• FDA approves Aksys home dialysis system

• Who’s responsible for high book prices

• Green party excluded from University of Minnesota debate

• Bruce Schneier on how to think about security

• Price fixing cause of dropping audio CD sales

• Tracking, profiling, and targeting for fun and profit

• The heat is on

• “Twelve steps” to clean and green

• Reading habits tracking overturned in Colorado

• The purpose of copyright

• Journalism the next

• Would you trust the death star with your privacy?

• EPIC sues over national identification cards

March

• The other CBDTPA shoe drops

• On corporations owning copyrights

• Michael Eisner’s financials and possible smokescreen

• Jim Hightower’s new chautauqua

• When elephants waltz

• Riffing on When elephants dance

• When elephants dance

• Bush moves to drop medical data privacy

• Radio and the New York Times

• Minnesota do-not-call list passes House committee

• blogtank

• Radio community subversion

• Fiscal responsibility for thee, not me

• Medi-care, please

• Happy to see me, or is that a magazine in your pocket?

• Cheney’s basic fundamental principle

• More on RCS

• That’s it for Netscape

• Radio Community Server—huh?

• Minnesota political season begins

• O’Reilly network: Introduction to CSS layout

• The kiddie porn judge

February

• Michael Moore on the O’Reilly Factor

• American cheese

• John Perry Barlow on nearly everything

• Napster reprise

• RAND removed from W3C policy

• Steven Garrity on web design

• Privatizing Social Security will kill us and it

• David Weinberger blogs TED conference

• War riddles: ten questions the media can’t answer

• Infotrash

• Mainstream media whoops

• Copyright tipping

• Paging George Orwell

• More on book tracking

• Tracking reading habits: websites and books

• FTC chain letter sting

• Tables vs. CSS

• Pot, kettle, black

• Between copyright and public domain: Creative Commons

• The kiss of venture capital death

• Link rot

• Why we use PayPal

• Michael Moore’s adventures in publishing

• Putting them out of our misery

• Microsoft knows who you are and who you know

• Why we blog

• Michael Moore: Dubya in the garden

• Minnesota telephone privacy heats up

• Big ‘J’ journalism payola

• Is that a real CD or a Cactus CD?

• Second ESRD anniversary

January

• Spam seal of approval

• John Ashcroft: calico cats are signs of the devil

• EPIC prompts state attorneys general on Passport

• Dotcom Scoop interview with K5’s Rusty Foster

• Top fraud complaint: identity theft

• Canadian frozen organ transplant breakthrough

• The most important cell

• FTC proposes “do not call” registry

• Consolidation of strangers

• Here comes the sun

• Kerfuffle at Time

• Repression and the new McCarthyism

• Media consolidation by the numbers

• EPIC profiling data lawsuit

• EFF history and overview

• Magic Lantern shine your light on them

• Sound salvation: UserLand Radio

• Ashcroft tells federal agencies to resist FOIA requests

• Copyright blackmail

• John Robb on desktop data silos

• DoubleClick double gone

• Davenet: When to give away the technology

2001

December

• Defining information architecture components

• Review: The Future of Ideas

• A tech executive who actually gets it

• How Rageboy got his name

• 2001 p.u.-litzer prizes

• ClearType is killer technology

• Wired: Music so nice you may pay twice

• Is spam killing email?

• The tragedy of open source

November

• Leonard Riggio: A publisher’s worst nightmare

• Well that was fun

• More fun with spammers

• Financing content creation

• Adventures in computerland

• The art of misdirection

October

• The other shoe drops

• Review: Bob Dylan at the Xcel Energy Center

• Toward a self-supporting publication

• Content is a pure public good

• The heart of America

• What are we fighting for?

• Reconnecting

• Small is good

• Convergence indeed: Picking cotton for Bill

September

• No-travel meetings

• Water worlds

• And the race is on

• Asking the right questions

• Simmer down

• Microsoft wins; game over

• A Labor Day rant

• Fun with spammers

• Review: American Gods

August

• This is customer service?

• Surplus? What surplus?

• Information architecture moving forward

• Review: Next the Future Just Happened

• Amy Wohl: Weblogs as KM in the enterprise

• You’re late, you’re late, for a very important date

• New music? No thanks

• Privacy Foundation’s Bugnosis

• More on stem cell research

• Lawrence Lessig on the end of innovation

• Kidney cells from bone marrow stem cells

• Of monopolies and Code Reds

July

• The long arm of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act

• High electric bills? Talk to Dick

June

• U.S. Supreme Court shocker for freelance writers

• Bicycle basics

• SmartTags and the Microsoft problem revisited

• Carnivore may be de-fanged

• Compassion and the death of Timothy McVeigh

• Sustainable strategies

• All your links are belong to us

March

• Shrub’s no-surprise betrayal

2000

December

• Crash

• Paradise

• The end of the music industry

• Nobody here gets out alive

November

• Holidays with family

• A helluva way to run a railroad

• Buzzword bingo

• This family needs manners

• We get what we deserve revisited

• Media frustration and Democratic denial

October

• We get what we deserve

• The wheel

• Pimps and whores

September

• Microsoft’s Passport

• Web bugs

• Cookie-eating carpetbaggers (minus one)

• Carpetbaggers and contradictions

August

• Those gubmint meat-eaters

• More Internet privacy problems

• Echelon revisited

• Personal information—who cares? Not big business

• Fighting with the needles

July

• Corporate rights and responsibilities

• Infection, sepsis, a family reunion, and far away good friends

• A new nephrologist and fistula surgery

• Catheter + dialysis

• The call that changed my life

1999

September

• Consumer Internet security

• Information Eclipse cover

• Reviews

• Foreword

• Preface

• Acknowledgments

• Information 101

• The new principles of information

• What good is information?

• Changing of the information guard

• The economics of information

• Information dis-ease

• The information infrastructure

• Libraries in a knowledge economy

• Further…

• Information rights

• Information control in England and the colonies

• Constitutional Amendment protections

• Copyright and intellectual property

• World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO)

• Legislative protections

• Bank Secrecy Act

• Privacy Act

• Tax Reform Act

• Right to Financial Privacy Act

• Employee Polygraph Protection Act

• Freedom of Information Act

• Electronic Fund Transfer Act

• Computer Software Act

• Fair Credit Reporting Act

• Fair Credit Billing Act

• Equal Credit Opportunity Act

• Fair Debt Collection Practices Act

• Electronic Communications Privacy Act

• Computer Fraud and Abuse Act

• Federal Trade Commission protections

• Further…

• Federal agency actions

• National Crime Information Center

• Federal agency snapshots

• National Security Agency

• Internal Revenue Service

• Securities Exchange Commission

• Central Intelligence Agency

• Computers and Privacy Report

• Computer matching restrictions

• Inslaw and outlaws

• Further…

• Myth of a free press

• Publishing v. distributing

• First Amendment challenges

• Press freedom and responsibility

• Minnesota Free Flow of Information Act

• Communications Decency Act

• Further…

• Myth of a free market

• Microsoft industry control

• Microsoft information licenses

• Microsoft and its competition

• Microsoft v. Department of Justice

• Project to Promote Competition and Innovation in the Digital Age

• Microsoft business practices

• Microsoft and its independent contractors

• Further…

• Information access

• Prodigy

• Thomas

• Self-censorship in the press

• Access to government records

• Restrictions within government

• Freedom of Information Act and electronic information

• A Freedom of Information Act folly

• MN data practices act

• Platform for Internet Content Selection

• Online journalism

• Online Journalism Review

• Technorealism

• Internet plumbing problems

• Further…

• Personal privacy

• How important is privacy?

• Griswold v. Connecticut

• Credit privacy

• Transaction and behavior information privacy

• Library Awareness Program

• Lotus MarketPlace: Households

• Financial privacy

• Medical records

• Datawarehousing and datamining

• Information brokering

• National identity cards

• Workplace privacy

• Minnesota Data Practices Act

• Wiretapping

• Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act

• European Echelon network

• Cellular phone privacy

• Telephone Caller ID privacy

• Operation Sun Devil

• Internet privacy

• Federal Trade Commission Internet privacy hearings

• Microsoft Internet Storefront

• Microsoft Firefly

• Open Profiling Standard

• Deja News

• Unsolicited bulk email (“Spam”)

• Netizens Protection Act

• Electronic Mailbox Protection Act

• Unsolicited Commercial Electronic Mail Choice Act

• Further…

• Censorship

• Corporate censorship

• Platform for Internet Content Selection

• Other filtering software

• School and library filtering

• Communications Decency Act sequels

• State restrictions

• Further…

• Computer crime

• The “Hollywood Hacker”

• Kevin Mitnick

• Julio Cesar Ardita

• Computer fraud and “federal-interest computers”

• Terrorist infrastructure attacks

• Cryptography

• Clipper chip

• Pretty Good Privacy (PGP)

• National Research Council cryptography report

• Government cryptography control

• Security and Freedom Through Encryption Act

• Secure Public Networks Act

• President Clinton’s market-driven approach

• Authentication and digital signatures

• Further….

• Further…

• In real life…

• Using Pretty Good Privacy (PGP)

• Obtaining the PGP software

• Installing the PGP software—Macintosh

• Generating a key pair—Macintosh

• Encrypting documents—Macintosh

• Decrypting documents—Macintosh

• Using PGP for email—Macintosh

• Installing the PGP software—Windows

• Generating a key pair—Windows

• Encrypting documents—Windows

• Decrypting documents—Windows

• Using PGP for email—Windows

• About the author

• About the cover image

• Resources

August

• Crypto prior restraint

July

• KPFA: The battle for community radio

June

• US Bank settles privacy lawsuit

• MN Attorney General sues US Bank: Alleges sale of private customer information

May

• Data privacy tensions

April

• Anonymity in cyberspace

• The state of independent publishing—1999

• Cluetrain pulls into the station—take delivery

• SAFE + ProCode = third time charm?

March

• Minnesota privacy update

February

• Limits to free speech

• amazon.com: Love for sale

• Personal privacy: We want it back, you get over it

• Identifying computer users raises privacy concerns

• Child Online Protection Act (COPA) blocked

January

• Flynt winks; C-SPAN blinks

1998

December

• Library Internet filtering update

November

• European Union weighs in on privacy

• CDA II rides again

• Free PCs: At what cost?

• Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA)

September

• The curiosity seekers

August

• Way new publishing part two

• Way new publishing

• Texas flood in Minnesota

July

• DES cracked (again)

• Mandatory school and library filters proposed

1997

November

• Pythagorus’ golden section

1996

October

• Clinton’s new cryptography plan

September

• There goes your privacy

August

• Anti-terrorism v. free speech

July

• Electronic commerce on the net

• Wiretapping increases

• Profit by 2000

June

• E-Data wants to own electronic commerce

• Digital copyright bill

May

• Review: HTML The Definitive Guide

• The art of the deal: Dancing in the dark

April

• ISDN: saved by the net

• It’s the content stupid

March

• Telecommunications reform bill (Communications Decency Act)

• Scandinavian guilt

• Web development costs

February

• Microsoft Internet strategy

January

• World Wide Web history

1995

October

• ARTS & FARCES awarded substantial judgment against Ventana Press, Inc.

1993

February

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