San Francisco Bay Guardian | Annalee Newitz

Green Satellites are Dyingnew

Downsizing the climate sensor networks could be bad news for all of us.

San Francisco Bay Guardian | Annalee Newitz | 09-20-2007 | Environment

Anonymity Trouble: The Satisfactions of Wikiscannernew

Virgil Griffith has revealed something far more fundamental than the fact that acolytes of Pepsi and the CIA will stop at nothing to propagandize on behalf of their employers: he's undermined the myth of the anonymous blogger in the basement.

San Francisco Bay Guardian | Annalee Newitz | 08-22-2007 | Tech

Tags: Wikipedia, wikiscanner, computers & technology

Kids Safer Online!new

People have been freaking out about how new distribution networks bring pornography to children for nearly half a century.

San Francisco Bay Guardian | Annalee Newitz | 08-09-2007 | Tech

Tags: computers & technology

Futures Not Taken: Toffler's Future Shocknew

Of Orson and Dongtan.

San Francisco Bay Guardian | Annalee Newitz | 07-30-2007 | Tech

Tags: computers & technology

iPhone Politicsnew

Why everyone cares about Apple's newest toy.

San Francisco Bay Guardian | Annalee Newitz | 07-18-2007 | Tech

Tags: computers & technology

'Transformers' Without Ironynew

If you want to enjoy this flick without guilt, you'll have to ignore the whole Middle East issue.

San Francisco Bay Guardian | Annalee Newitz | 07-11-2007 | Reviews

Tags: Michael Bay, Transformers

Never Mind the Steampunknew

Can't our devices be pretty and practical?

San Francisco Bay Guardian | Annalee Newitz | 07-05-2007 | Tech

Tags: computers & technology

The Future of Papernew

Post-print media, paper will survive -- but will print journalists?

San Francisco Bay Guardian | Annalee Newitz | 06-27-2007 | Media

Tags: media

Hollywood Takes Aim at Online Privacynew

The entertainment industry has finally figured out a way to screw everybody in the United States -- not just the geeks using peer-to-peer software.

San Francisco Bay Guardian | Annalee Newitz | 06-21-2007 | Tech

Tags: spy, torrent, computers & technology

My Wikipedia Activismnew

If the goal is to preserve knowledge, we shouldn't be wasting our time determining what's notable enough to stay in Wikipedia -- the culture and history of the minor and the obscure should be remembered just as easily as those of the famous and the mighty.

San Francisco Bay Guardian | Annalee Newitz | 06-06-2007 | Tech

Tags: computers & technology

The Myth of the Universal Librarynew

A lot of web geeks believe that one day everything ever created by humans will be available online -- without further ado, I present to you three arguments for the elimination of the myth of the universal library.

San Francisco Bay Guardian | Annalee Newitz | 05-10-2007 | Tech

Tags: computers & technology