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NYTimes.com now asks you to pay for articles after one week, making this page not so useful, so I am not updating it very often. You can see a list of my stories for the paper by doing an archive search.
Don't Mourn, Yet. These Obits Were Only Designs. Military Families Find Closeness Online The Man Who Would Buy Everything, Everywhere Government Tells Vigilantes Their 'Help' Isn't Necessary Turning a Digital Database Into Local Radio For the Mix Tape, a Digital Upgrade and Notoriety Users of Roommate Service Receive Anti-Jewish E-Mail
Sites Become Dependent on Google
Mr. Qaddafi, You've Got Mail
Name That Tune, From Your Cellphone
My Car Sounds Better Than Yours
Reporters Find New Outlet, and Concerns, in Web Logs
A Site to Pour Out Emotions, and Just About Anything Else
Plastic Gold:
Recyclers Find Profit in Printer Ink Cartridges Star of 'I Kiss You' Site Moves From Farce to Folklore
U.S. Warns Web Sites to Label Sponsorships A Rift Among Bloggers Robots Find a Muse Other Than Mayhem AOL Replaces Overture With Google New Economy: Google Runs Into Copyright Dispute How It Works: A Tracking System That Calls Balls and Strikes What's Next: Shrinking and Rethinking the Old Vertical Antenna Steering the Driver to Preferred Pit Stops
Helping Software Companies Be as Open as They Want to Be
Game Makers Scale Back; Players Have Other Ideas
Weary of Gadgetmania? Just Dial M for Mockery
Word for Word: 'Just Say No to H2O' (Unless It's Coke's Own Brew)
How It Works: For the Errant Heart, a Chip That Packs a Wallop
Some Prefer Online 'A.I.' Tie-In to the Movie
Play Now, Pay Later: The Shareware Business
Invasion of the 'Blog': A Parallel Web of Personal Journals
Also:
Invisible Publishing Sparks a Lawsuit
Movie Industry Frowns on Professor's Software Gallery
On Campus, Free Fast Internet Access Is No Longer a Given
When E-Mail Messages Come With a Tail of Legalese
Picture Pages: Web sites for people who hate to read The Web's Missing Links Top of the Heap
'Teacup Rescue Dogs Vancouver': Site Reveals What Surfers Really Seek
Love Your Enemy
Making Waves
Jack of
All Ports
The New York Times
April 21, 2003
An online art project leads to some trouble for CNN.
March 31, 2003
Online diaries as outlets for those with loved ones in Iraq.
March 10, 2003
Fun with supermarket loyalty cards.
February 20, 2003
Please don't express your patriotism by mounting hacker attacks on our nation's enemies.
February 3, 2003
How Clear Channel gets Carson Daly to sound like he's counting down the day's top 10 songs when he's actually on the beach.
January 30, 2003
On the culture of mix CDs, the people who swap them and the people who want to wipe them out.
January 13, 2003
These days you never know what might happen when you give a company your e-mail address.
December 9, 2002
Many smaller commercial sites are coming to rely on Google for traffic and sales.
November 10, 2002
How easy is it for the average Internet user to communicate with the world's least friendly regimes?
October 28, 2002
A British company has created a kind of mobile search engine for music.
October 23, 2002
A look at the odd subculture of people who build elaborate MP3 systems for their cars.
September 23, 2002
What happens when journalists start building their own little media outlets on the Web?
September 5, 2002
LiveJournal.com demonstrates that many young people are using online journals to keep in touch.
July 18, 2002
Your empty cartridges are worth something, but the people who made them would rather you didn't know it.
July 4, 2002
A goofy home page made Mahir Cagri famous. Life hasn't been the same since.
July 2, 2002
The FTC tells search engines to stop being so sneaky with their paid listings.
June 10, 2002
A new, political wave of online self-publishers tries to rewrite the history of weblogs.
May 30, 2002
A robot talent show in Brooklyn demonstrates that machines can have a creative side.
May 2, 2002
Another step in Google's march toward total dominance of Web search.
April 22, 2002
The Church of Scientology, wielding the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, forces Google to do some creative linking.
March 28, 2002
Military surveillance technology does the work of an umpire.
March 7, 2002
A new material will turn the plastic body of your cell phone (or, say, a truck's bumpers) into a big antenna.
November 16, 2001
Advertising and shopping opportunities are creeping into car information systems like GM's OnStar.
November 5, 2001
Open-source ideas about software development are changing the way lots of software gets built.
September 20, 2001
The computer game industry responds to the terrorist attacks. Some players want to hunt Mr. bin Laden themselves.
September 13, 2001
An artist builds a cell phone into a clothing iron. Ergonomic design! I took the photo of the artist that ran in the paper. More photos here.
September 2, 2001
On Coke's water war. A 'Week in Review' editor asked me to put this together after I wrote a related brief for the business section.
August 16, 2001
On a medical device that has been known to cause existential crises. Don't miss the great graphics.
July 10, 2001
A game that's a movie promotion but also something much bigger.
June 13, 2001
What can the music industry learn from shareware authors?
December 28, 2000
This was the first NYT story to use the term "Web log."
Dell's on the Cutting Edge, but It's Only a Movie, February 17, 2003
Electronic Surveillance Spies a Perfect Gift, February 10, 2003
New Service Offers Made-to-Order CD's From TV Show, January 7, 2003
Enter Maze, and Find the Opt-Out Cheese, December 9, 2002
Robotic Dogs and Singing Fish in Cross Hairs, October 21, 2002
Free Weblog Service and a Vampire, Too, August 26, 2002
And Now the Sequel: Every-zilla Meets the Lawyers, August 19, 2002
2 Rooms, River View, A.T.M. in Lobby, June 6, 2002
Paper Complains to Web Site About the Way It Links, May 6, 2002
In France, Scents Waft Over the Web, March 4, 2002
Some Junk E-Mail Has a Poor Sense of Timing, February 25, 2002
Beaming Data Holds Promise, With Limits, for Networking, August 23, 2001
Phone Firms Seek More Time on 911 Locator, August 2, 2001
Popular Web Publishing Service to Get Help From Trellix, April 16, 2001
Saks.com Mines a List of E-Shoppers, March 26, 2001
Amazon Tries to Ease Privacy Worries, August 30, 1999
CyberTimes, The New York Times on the Web
Cyber Law Journal column
June 29, 2001
If you steal someone else's words, but nobody can read them, is it still plagiarism?
Cyber Law Journal column
March 30, 2001
Posting illegal software on free-speech grounds.
Education column
February 7, 2001
Colleges get tired of footing the bill for high-speed Napster downloads.
Cyber Law Journal column
March 17, 2000
This article is not a substitute for legal advice. I am responsible for nothing.
Slate
November 18, 2002
Photologs are a lot like weblogs, but with more pretty colors.
MIT Technology Review
November 2002
Web links only go in one direction. Some people would like to change that.
Business 2.0
July 2002
The story of my climb to the summit of Google.
The Village Voice
March 5, 2001
A look at a Web site called Disturbing Search Requests and... disturbing search requests.
Interactive Week
May 10, 2001
A profile of Ian Clarke, founder of an anarchic file-sharing system and budding entrepreneur. Also available in Japanese.
January 29, 2001
WFMU, a quirky radio station in New Jersey, finds new friends online. (Story is no longer online at zdnet.com.)
November 27, 2000
Things I learned about the Internet and humanity during a European tour. (Story is no longer online at zdnet.com.)