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Letters to the editor
Letters to the Editor
The geeks weigh in on Melissa; don't blame Clinton for the Balkans' woes.
The ecology of computer viruses
Jamais Cascio
Who was vulnerable to Melissa? Only users and companies who'd standardized on a software "monoculture" -- like Microsoft's.
Middle-aged wasteland
Joyce Millman
A 46-year-old loser goes back to high school in Amy Sedaris' Comedy Central series "Strangers With Candy."
Vernor Vinge, online prophet
Andrew Leonard
The author whose science-fiction classics predicted the Internet finds that reality is hard to keep up with.
Chapter 5: Addressed for success
Thomas Scoville
Silicon Follies: By Thomas Scoville. Chapter 5: Addressed for success
Log: Brief reports and tidbits from the Info-Sphere
Salon Tech Writers
Melissa virus panic attack - Slate slags Linux
The king of computer labs
Andrew Leonard
Xerox PARC invented the modern PC but couldn't sell it. A definitive new history explores why.
Let's Get This Straight: From Agenda to Zoot
Scott Rosenberg
Readers fill us in on personal information software -- the good, the bad and the discontinued.
Let's Get This Straight: Personal information mismanagement
Scott Rosenberg
Why hasn't the software industry given us more tools to get our lives in order?
Hotline's civil war
Janelle Brown
Hotline's civil war: By Janelle Brown. The company behind a hot program takes its wunderkind inventor to court -- while devoted users stew. Second in a two-part series.
Hotline to the underground
Janelle Brown
Hotline to the underground: By Janelle Brown. It was invented by a teenager. It's simple to use. And it can turn anyone's computer into a server of legal or illegal files. Part one of two parts.
Log: Brief reports and tidbits from the info-sphere
Salon Tech Writers
Turing Test transcripts: Is it bot or not?
Let's Get This Straight: The Web's identity crisis
Scott Rosenberg
Intel's processor-I.D. gaffe shows how badly tech companies want to know who you are and where you live.
Down for the count
C.D. Ellison
Now that the Supreme Court has barred Census "sampling," what are Republicans going to do to correct the scandalous undercount of minority voters?
Have my shoe talk to your refrigerator
Janelle Brown
Let's Get This Straight: A corporate game of Internet Monopoly
Scott Rosenberg
@Home's purchase of Excite poses a new challenge to AOL and leaves Microsoft on the sidelines -- for now.
Let's Get This Straight: Bandwidth in our time
Scott Rosenberg
Now that the telephone companies are finally taking on the cable industry, we just might get fast Internet lines in our homes before we're all dead.
The century of the trial
James Poniewozik
TV lawyers, trials and commentators have so amped up our expectactions that the Senate impeachment proceeding is an anti-climatic snooze.
The ecology of Java
Peter Wayner
It's not just Sun vs. Microsoft anymore -- as the success of little Transvirtual shows.
Let’s Get This Straight: Yes, there is a better search engine
Scott Rosenberg
Yes, there is a better search engine. While the portal sites fiddle, Google catches fire.
Microsoft on Microsoft
Karlin Lillington
How does the software giant spin its own history in its reference products?
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