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Habla usted Clear Channel?
Eric Boehlert
If the FCC allows the two biggest Spanish-language media companies in the U.S. to merge, it'll create a media conglomerate that will dwarf all competitors -- and could help GOP-friendly radio titan Clear Channel deliver Hispanic votes for Bush in '04.
The revolution will be photographed
Katherine Catmull
Fotolog combines the community-creation powers of the Internet with the ease of digital photography. The result: Everyone's an artist.
A file-trading ship of fools
Farhad Manjoo
Don't scapegoat greedy record execs for Napster's failure, says Joseph Menn in "All the Rave: The Rise and Fall of Shawn Fanning's Napster." The inept bunglers who ran the company have only themselves to blame.
How do you say “regime change” in Arabic?
Katharine Mieszkowski
Don't look for your tattered dictionary -- just pull out the Phraselator!
Are we doomed yet?
Sheldon Pacotti
The computer-networked, digital world poses enormous threats to humanity that no government, no matter how totalitarian, can stop. A fully open society is our best chance for survival.
Linux does Windows
Farhad Manjoo
Desktop open-source operating systems are ready for prime time and available from Wal-Mart. But if they look and act just the same as software from Redmond, what's the point?
A hoodlum’s education
Adrian Nicole LeBlanc
In this excerpt from "Random Family: Love, Drugs, Trouble, and Coming of Age in the Bronx," little Cesar splits with his criminal mentor, loses his gun and catches the eye of a girl named Coco.
AOL’s Jekyll and Hyde act
Farhad Manjoo
The world's biggest Internet provider is also the world's biggest media company. As the entertainment industry prosecutes users who share music, will AOL take a stand?
Letters
Salon Staff
The file-sharing masses rise up! Readers respond to John and Ben Snyder's "Embrace File-sharing, or Die."
Letters
Salon Staff
How to beat the market! Readers respond to Andrew Leonard's "Warren Buffett's Revenge."
Letters
Salon Staff
Stop dissin' Visual Basic! Readers respond to Farhad's Manjoo's "Is There Hope for Java?"
Letters
Salon Staff
Enemies of copyright are just uncreative people who want good stuff for free: Readers respond to Siva Vaidhyanathan's "After the Copyright Smackdown: What Next?"
Ask the pilot
Patrick Smith
Can we stop bombs in our baggage? And, how do pilots amuse themselves at 30,000 feet?
Lord of the Geeks
Andrew Leonard
Tolkien provided the blueprint for one generation of computer games after another. But have today's whizz-bang graphics brought us any closer to Middle Earth?
Radio Free Software
Sam Williams
Call them hackers of the last computing frontier: The GNU Radio coders believe that any device with a chip should be able to do, well, anything.
The worst after-date e-mail ever
Salon Staff
His slick seduction ploy: "My first impression of you was, you are fat."
Money talks, Microsoft walks
Scott Rosenberg
Bill Gates lets out a big "Whew!" as the court decides that what's good for Microsoft is good for America.
Letters
Salon Staff
Readers respond to Salon's coverage of the weekend's antiwar protest in Washington.
The drug war’s littlest victims
Nell Bernstein
Measures to put drug abusers in rehab instead of jail could rescue their kids from the cycle of addiction, foster care and crime.
Goliath crushes David
Farhad Manjoo
Even as it was fighting its antitrust battle with the feds, Microsoft was already on to Round 2: Winning the streaming-media wars. Second of two parts.
Letters
Salon Staff
Readers respond to Christopher Ketcham's "Roach Motel" and Suzanne Finnamore's "Aspirin for a Severed Head." Plus: A reader's defense of "When Your Kids Are in the Line of Fire," by Beth Frerking.
Saving AOL
Farhad Manjoo
The online giant's woes are legion. Will new software and a bet on broadband come to the rescue?
Riding along with the Internet Bookmobile
Richard Koman
Angered by a law that extends copyright terms for 20 years, a crusader named Brewster Kahle wants to use the Internet to make books available to everyone.
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