AltWeeklies Wire
Smoking Yahoo's Pipesnew
How could a tool designed to help you manipulate all kinds of information actually limit your control?
San Francisco Bay Guardian |
Annalee Newitz |
04-04-2007 |
Tech
Tags: computers & technology
A Real-world Report from the Virtual Worlds Conferencenew
2007: The year the Metaverse broke out?
San Antonio Current |
Aaron Delwiche |
04-04-2007 |
Tech
Tags: computers & technology
My So-Called Second Lifenew
In real life or virtual, all we want is a pair of jeans that fit -- and sex.
Dallas Observer |
Andrea Grimes |
04-02-2007 |
Tech
Tags: computers & technology
Christopher Tate's MillionDollarPolaroid.comnew
The art student turns a found polaroid of Carlos Mencia into an internet phenomenon.
Baltimore City Paper |
Bret McCabe |
04-02-2007 |
Tech
Tags: computers & technology
A Fond Farewell: Archipelago.orgnew
This latest issue of Archipelago -- its 10th anniversary edition -- will be the last. But the Archipelago archives will remain in business, so if you haven't visited them yet, do so -- your world will expand.
C-Ville Weekly |
Nell Boeschenstein |
03-29-2007 |
Tech
Tags: computers & technology
San Francisco's Wi-Fi Plan is About to be Blocked by a Group of Activistsnew
Folks who think it would be better to install an expensive, city-owned fiber network than to rely on radio waves have obtained backing on the Board of Supervisors to kill the mayor's Wi-Fi plan -- this is a bummer for San Francisco.
Tags: computers & technology
Two Web-Heads Think You Should Unplug This Saturdaynew
On March 24, if Michael Taylor and Dennis Bystrov have their way, computers all around the world will go dark and the Internet will look a little emptier -- welcome to World Shutdown Day.
New York Press |
Charlie Anders |
03-22-2007 |
Tech
Tags: computers & technology
Testing the Limits of Vulnerabilitynew
Unlike real-world exploitation, nearly all computer exploitation can be turned to good in the end.
San Francisco Bay Guardian |
Annalee Newitz |
03-21-2007 |
Tech
Tags: computers & technology
Website of the Weeknew
Prisonblogs.net aims to give incarcerated people a chance to communicate with the outside world and shed some light on what life is like behind bars.
San Francisco Bay Guardian |
Staff |
03-21-2007 |
Tech
Tags: computers & technology
Web Trenz!new
With SXSW Interactive and O'Reilly's Emerging Technology shindig, it's the time of year when we celebrate new ideas and fresh memes on the Interwebs -- here are some hot new trenz.
San Francisco Bay Guardian |
Annalee Newitz |
03-14-2007 |
Tech
Tags: computers & technology
The Inevitable Data Crash of 2027new
When we store all our personal, financial, and social information on other people's computers, we risk losing everything for reasons even stupider than the war on terror.
San Francisco Bay Guardian |
Annalee Newitz |
03-07-2007 |
Tech
Tags: computers & technology
Quackle: Brute Force Scrabblenew
The world's best Scrabble player lives at MIT, but he's not human.
Dig Boston |
Julia Reischel |
03-07-2007 |
Tech
Tags: computers & technology
Porn and Punishmentnew
Julie Amero faces 40 years in jail for porn -- a tech expert blames spyware.
New Haven Advocate |
Kent Garber |
03-06-2007 |
Tech
Tags: computers & technology
Giving Black Inventors Creditnew
Black contributions to technology are still pretty marginalized, but Francis Jeffers wants to change that with the International African Inventors Museum.
NOW Magazine |
Joseph Wilson |
03-05-2007 |
Tech
Tags: computers & technology
FON: Turning Rebellion into Moneynew
The Madrid-based Wi-Fi "community" will pay you $1 for each customer you help steal from Starbucks and give you a free wireless router if you live next to a branch of the coffee chain -- but what's behind the revolutionary rhetoric?
Philadelphia Weekly |
Jean Luc Renault |
03-05-2007 |
Tech
Tags: computers & technology
