Web/Tech

It turns out that Doc Searls’ plane got held up at Heathrow in London, so I’ve been drafted to take his place at the AlwaysOn conference in Palo Alto, Calif., on Thursday afternoon’s panel, Bloggers vs. Big Media Competition, from 3:45 to 4:45 pm PT. The webcast should be accessible through this page. I’ll try […]

I’m inside a lecture hall at UC Berkeley at the kickoff of the sixth annual new media conference, where panelists Howard Rheingold, Denise Caruso, Mark Schapiro and Christina Desser (along with Ray Kurzweil via videoconference) are holding forth on Living With The Genie: On Technology and the Quest for Human Mastery. (The Webcast is live […]

Glenn F. looks back at the highlights of 2003 and offers some predictions for the new year in his Wi-Fi Networking News blog, which I’ve finally blogrolled (under Tech) at the left. “What will 2004 bring? More security, higher cell data rates, and the final blossoming of hotspots in public spaces.”

Paul Boutin offers 101 ways to save the Internet in the January 2004 issue of Wired magazine.

Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos has a message on the front page of Amazon’s site today: Starting today, you can find books at Amazon.com based on every word inside them, not just on matches to author or title keywords. Search Inside the Book — the name of this new feature — searches the complete inside text […]