PEOPLE & PUNDITS
SITES
Articles and Editorials by Bruce Perens
Article and editorials from Bruce Perens, co-founder of the Open Source Initiative and an author of the Open Source Definition.
EDventure Holdings
Esther Dyson (author of Release 2.0) is co-owner of EDventures Holdings, which produces the newsletter her book is based on (Release 1.0).
Gary North's Y2K Links and Forums
Links to numerous sites and forums with Year 2000 bug information. According to the site creator (Gary North) the Y2K problem will be unstoppable and catastrophic.
Howard Rheingold on Multi-user Dungeons and Alternate Identities
Chapter 5 of Howard Rheingold's book The Virtual Community deals with online identity.
The Industry Standard: The Network
Brief profiles of dozens of industry pundits, from Mark Andreessen to Jerry Yang.
Larry Wall's Home Page
Larry Wall's home page includes links to various speeches he's made, as well as his geek code and other random things.
Master Developers
Interviews with "master developers" - the people behind high-profile web sites.
ReWired
Every week or two, David Hudson and his cohorts post a new article examining some bit of Internet (or real) life. A quirky site.
San Francisco Examiner - Net Skink
An archive of opinion columns from Rebecca L. Eisenberg, "The Net Skink." Topics range from OS wars to industry mergers to unionizing web workers.
Suck's NETMOGULS.COM
Trading cards of famous 'Net personalities: venture capitalists, programming wizards, and talking heads.
Web Developer Profiles and Interviews
Interviews with web developers, media pundits, and others.
ARTICLES
5 Questions With... Po Bronson
Opinions from Po Bronson, author of Nudist on the Late Shift, on the changes in Silicon Valley's atmosphere with the dot-com downturn, and how laid-off employees will cope. (2/14/2001 at Business 2.0)
A Boy and His Computer
Andrew Leonard, author of an unfinished history of free software, reviews the autobiography of Linus Torvalds, creator of the free system Linux. (4/24/2001 at Salon.com)
A Look Back to When PC Power Took Off
An interview with Bill Gates of Microsoft and Andy Grove of Intel, on the changes to the industry and world since the IBM PC first surfaced 20 years ago in 1981. (8/8/2001 at USA Today)
AOL's loose cannon: Justin Frankel
Justin Frankel, who AOL hired and paid $86 million for his software company Nullsoft, has created a series of open-source programs that AOL probably doesn't like - including Gnutella (a Napster-like file-sharer) and AIMazing (which blocks AOL ads). (9/21/2000 at ZDNet)
Brilliant Careers: Jim Clark
A look at the forces that shaped Jim Clark - from dropping out of high school, to founding 3 multibillion dollar companies. (11/24/1999 at Salon.com)
A Chat With ... Let's make a toast to the cyber-post
Interview with Steve Champeon, moderator of the webdesign-l mailing list, with a look at the nature of communities on the Internet. (1/3/2000 at The News & Observer)
Cheap at the Price
Earthlink's founder, Sky Dayton, talks about his eCompanies incubator, buying the business.com domain name for $7.5 million, his new wireless business, and Carnivore. (9/18/2000 at Salon.com)
Clay Shirky Explains Internet Evolution
A Slashdot interview with Clay Shirky, concentrating on new media and on how the Internet is changing society. (3/13/2001 at Slashdot.org)
Digital 50
Time's list of the top 50 people on the Internet. #1: Jeff Bezos. #2: Steve Case. #3: Bill Gates. #4: Linus Torvalds. #27: Pokemon. (9/29/1999 at Time Magazine Online)
Fame and the VC Game
Sabeer Bhatia, the 31-year-old entrepreneur who sold Hotmail to Microsoft for $400 million, uses his fame as a tool to get venture capitalists interested in his new startip, Arzoo. (9/12/2000 at The Industry Standard)
FCC's Chief Techie Sees a Wilder Net Ride Ahead
David Farber, the Federal Communication Commission's chief technologist, predicts the next 10 years will bring us "Internet Anywhere," privacy problems, and slower wireless development in the U.S. than elsewhere in the world. (9/20/2000 at News.com)
Five Questions With...Esther Dyson, Chairman of Edventure Holdings
A short interview with Esther Dyson, outgoing chairman of ICANN; covering ICANN, privacy, wireless technology, the music industry, and the Lizard Dance. (12/1/2000 at Business 2.0)
Gates on 'Future Without Microsoft'
In an interview with BBC News, Bill Gates says all companies (including Microsoft) eventually get replaced, that newspaper publishers have more control over public discourse than software publishers, and thinking computers will eventually be here. (10/15/1999 at BBC News)
Gates Turns Over Reins of His Empire
Bill Gates has resigned his CEO position at Microsoft and remains chairman, and chief software architect; Steve Ballmer will take over the CEO position. (1/13/2000 at News.com)
Google's Larry Page: Good Ideas Still Get Funded
Google CEO/co-founder Larry Page talks about how Google started and where it's going, the climate for investing, and his role in starting eGroups. (3/13/2001 at Business Week)
HEIDI VAN ARNEM: iCan's Web Crusade
A profile of Heidi Van Arnem, who "fighting for the rights and opportunities of people with disabilities" through her company, iCan, and its website iCan.com. (12/27/2000 at The Industry Standard)
Homeland Insecurity
A long look at Bruce Schneier's thoughts on security, and how they have evolved from emphasizing encryption to compartmentalizing dangers and keeping well-trained people in the security loop. (9/10/2002 at The Atlantic Monthly)
Internet Pioneer Helps the Net Stretch to Mars
In a keynote speech at the National Association of Broadcasters convention, Vint Cerf talked about the increasing connectivity of all kinds of devices, and his work with the Jet Propulsion Lab to develop interplanetary networking. (4/26/2001 at PC World)
The Internet World Interview: Tim Berners-Lee
Am interview with Tim Berners-Lee, on his continuing involvement in the development of the Web, how the semantic Web will change things, the dangers of vertical integration, and technological interoperability. (1/1/2000 at Internet World)
The Internet's 'Living Treasure'
Richard Smith has discovered, and publicized, privacy violations perpetrated by a number of software companies, including Microsoft and Real Networks. (11/2/1999 at Wired News)
Interview with Dave Winer
An interview with Dave Winer, founder of UserLand Software, about Radio UserLand, an application which uses RSS, XML-RPC, and SOAP to aggregate and publish text and multimedia. (3/12/2001 at WebReference.com)
Inventing the Enterprise
Profiles of many of the people who, not knowing the impact they'd have, changed the computer world. Includes the inventors of Ethernet, VisiCalc, COBOL, Java, and more. (12/15/1999 at CIO.com)
Investing in the Web
An interview with Guy Kawasaki, chairman and CEO of garage.com, regarding investing in web businesses and the dangers that brick-and-mortars face from fresh young startups. (12/1/1999 at CIO.com)
Jeff Bezos Named Man of the Year; Fear for 2000
"Man of the year? Yes, if you believe the future is lots of unit-shifting happytalk to desirable demographics until such time as the stock bubble bursts." A sarcastic look at Jeff Bezos, Yahoo Internet Life's man of the year. (12/16/1999 at Seattle Weekly)
Jim Clark: Consummate Entrepreneur
In an interview with CNNfn, Jim Clark talks about why he starts companies, and tells today's entrepreneurs to watch out for angel investors. (1/31/2000 at CNNfn)
Kevin Mitnick Bares All
At Giga Research's Infrastructures for E-Business conference, Kevin Mitnick spoke for the first time since leaving jail, giving managers advice on security. (9/28/2000 at The Industry Standard)
A Leader in Cyberspace, It Seems, Is No Politician
Esther Dyson, chairwoman of ICANN, has come under fire for a lack of diplomacy in dealing with those interested in shaping domain-name policy. But her integrity generally remains unquestioned. (4/10/2000 at The New York Times)
Lucky Seven
The Industry Standard looks at 7 CEOs who beat the odds and actually had successful IPOs, followed by decent stock prices, in the year 2000. (12/11/2000 at The Industry Standard)
May the Source Be With You
An interview with open-source evangelist Eric S. Raymond, in which he explains why nobody examined open-source culture in depth before he did, and why Microsoft will collapse. (11/28/1999 at Irish Times)
Mouse Inventor Strives for More
Douglas Engelbart, who invented the mouse 30 years ago, recently won the British Computer Society's Lovelace Medal; in an interview, he talked about his desire and plans to push human society forward. (11/5/2001 at BBC News)
Nicholas Hall: Succeeding at Failure
A profile of Nicholas Hall, whose website Startupfailures.com, unlike the companies it profiles, is reportedly breaking even. (10/25/2000 at The Industry Standard)
Professor Finds Her Legacy in Internet Law
A profile of law school professor Pamela Samuelson, who is known for helping to fund technology-oriented legal initiatives and clinics in the public interest. (3/2/2001 at The New York Times)
Q & A With Marc Andreesen
A short interview with Marc Andreesen, regarding where he's come from (Netscape and AOL) and where he's going (Loudcloud). (10/27/1999 at Forbes)
Raymond to Pen 'The Art of Unix Programming'
Open-source software evangelist is working on a book on unix programming, as well as a new online essay along the lines of "The Cathedral and the Bazaar." (10/3/2000 at Upside)
The Reporter From Cyberspace
A Drudge-style profile of Matt Drudge, online political muckraker, and a look at his new book, "Drudge Manifesto." (9/26/2000 at The Washington Post)
So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish
Elias Levy, aka Aleph1, is giving up his duties as moderator of the popular BugTraq mailing list; he will be replaced by David Ahmad. (10/15/2001 at SecurityFocus)
Spreading the GNUs
An interview with Richard Stallman on terminology (GNU/Linux vs. Linux, "free" vs. "open source"), software history, and the stock market crash. (1/11/2001 at Dallas Morning News)
Tech Is King; Now Meet the Prince
A profile of Prince Alwaleed bin Talal bin Abdul Aziz al Saud of Saudi Arabia, a billionaire who's made his money off of tech and banking stocks, and a look at his heavily-wired life. (11/15/1999 at Fortune)
Technology Medal Honors Man of Mouse
Douglas C. Engelbart, inventor of the mouse, hypertext links, and other foundations of computers and networking, has won the U.S. Medal of Technology; but is still having trouble funding his current project, The Bootstrap Institute. (12/1/2000 at SF Gate)
Top Ten Technology Innovators
InfoWorld picks 10 innovators to keep an eye on in 2002. Included: Dave Winer; John Crawford; Mike Lazaridis; Andy Mendelsohn; Larry Page; Sergey Brin. (2/27/2002 at InfoWorld)
A UCLA Professor and Net Pioneer Paves the Way for the Next Big Thing
A profile of Leonard Kleinrock, whose theories paved the way for efficient queue-based packet networking, and whose students and contemporaries have gone on to build and change the Internet. (2/14/2000 at The Chronicle of Higher Education)
Unauthorized Biography Takes on Steve Jobs
Alan Deutschmann, author of The Second Coming of Steve Jobs, had no contact with the subject of the biography while writing it; the book, which treats Apple's co-founder as a cult-like figure, is based on secondhand accounts of the media-hostile Jobs. (10/10/2000 at Upside)
Visionary Lays Into the Web
Ted Nelson, whose ideas had a great effect on the Web as we know it today, talks about his disappointment with how it has turned out. (10/8/2001 at BBC News)
Web Co-Inventor Backs Licensing
Robert Cailliau, who helped invent the Web with Tim Berners-Lee, believes that web users should be licensed and accountable for their actions; and micropayments should replace advertising. (11/27/1999 at Mercury Center)
Web Guru is Designer Friendly
Jakob Nielsen, usability guru, is a target of some web designers' anger; but he can also get people to laugh, whether intentionally or not. (1/19/2001 at Wired News)
When Nielsen Speaks . . .
An interview with Jakob Nielsen. Questions: What is usability? What is the User Experience World Tour? Plus opinions on site redesigns, WAP, and Flash. (1/10/2001 at Web Techniques)
Winners & Losers
Who "won," and who "lost," in the year 2000 Internet industry. (12/18/2000 at The Industry Standard)
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