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• Invitation to a Beheading, Part II - So what big names were invited to talk about national power in the information age? Katz knows. [Wired News]

• Suck Predicts the Future - In 1998 ... [Wired News] (December 29, 1997)
• A New-Media Moment - It's the stories, not the moguls, that matter, Jon Katz stresses. [Wired News] (December 26, 1997)
• Speaking in Tongues - 'Twas the night before Christmas.... Unless you run the line through the AltaVista Translation Service. [Wired News] (December 24, 1997)
• How to Buy Suck - The best-case scenario. [Wired News] (December 19, 1997)
• Lessons Behind Web Stalker's Sneer - Feed's Stefanie Syman ponders the philosophical implications of alternative browsers. [Wired News] (December 19, 1997)
• Erotibots and the Guys Who Love 'Em - Deep down in the alt.sex Usenet hierarchy, there dwells a newsgroup devoted to the erotic qualities of robots, mannequins, and statues. [Wired News] (December 17, 1997)
• Emerging from Internet World Gloom - More hot gossip from Ned Brainard's poison pen. [Wired News] (December 15, 1997)
• Urban Spelunkers - The publishers and readers of Infiltration magazine like to explore rooms and tunnels deep beneath the busy urban landscape. [Wired News] (December 12, 1997)
• Harvard Grad Makes Good - Esther Dyson has a great gift for skating along the cutting edge. [Wired News] (December 11, 1997)
• Digital Citizen, Meet the Digital Nation - A pollster has conducted a survey to discover if there is a digital nation, and, if so, what its values and attitudes are. [Wired News] (December 9, 1997)
• Netscape Wises Up to Apple Castoffs - More hot gossip from Ned Brainard's poison pen. [Wired News] (December 8, 1997)
• The Web's Fossil Record - The way Web architects build their sites today will largely determine whether the medium ever develops a genuine sense of posterity. [Wired News] (December 5, 1997)
• The X-Files Resurrected! - The X-Files is not dead. It's suddenly great again. [Wired News] (December 4, 1997)
• Shut Up and Kiss Me - Putting the boredom back in sex may actually make it more exciting. There is a vast audience out there that wants to see life with all the boring parts left in. [Wired News] (December 2, 1997)
• The Villainous Newsman - The media has become the new villian of choice in Hollywood. [Wired News] (December 1, 1997)
• The Next Voice You Hear - Imagine a voice-activated future in which you'll talk to your computer and it will talk back. Imagine everyone else working the same way. Imagine a headache. [Wired News] (November 26, 1997)
• PEZ-Heads Unite - Collectors have taken the cult around the candy dispensers online in a big way. [Wired News] (November 26, 1997)
• Suggestion to Bill Gates for a Microsoft Christmas - You could give Americans one of their greatest Christmas presents ever. You could put computers in every classroom. For that matter, if you wanted to dig a little deeper, you could make sure every American kid who wants one has one. [Wired News] (November 25, 1997)
• Gates Critics Suck Up, CNET Charges for Party - More hot gossip from Ned Brainard's poison pen. [Wired News] (November 24, 1997)
• Is It Real, Or Is It Television? - Our most horrifying moments - our few departures from the dailiness of life, those events that bust the limits of the ordinary and force us to confront fear, pain, death - remind us of nothing so much as media product. [Wired News] (November 24, 1997)
• History of the Tech Magazine - In the '70s and '80s, all it took to make millions in the magazine industry was a trade-show booth, the resulting subscription list, and a garage of your own. [Wired News] (November 19, 1997)
• Barlow's Duds, McNealy's Fly-By - More hot gossip from Ned Brainard's poison pen. [Wired News] (November 17, 1997)
• My Pet is a Six-Legged Cannibal - Many new-media offices and college dorms are homes to praying mantids and their keepers. The robot-like appearance and cannibalistic behavior are like geek magnets. [Wired News] (November 12, 1997)
• X-Files RIP - The premiere proved that Scully and Mulder have gone from being the world's premier psycho-seekers to just another dysfunctional family of victims. [Wired News] (November 12, 1997)
• Dirty Secrets of Smart Technology - Stefanie Syman's problem with things like computerized subway tokens and wearable computers is that they require even more technologies to get them to talk to the user. [Wired News] (November 11, 1997)
• Name that Mag and Be Immortal - More hot gossip from Ned Brainard's poison pen. [Wired News] (November 10, 1997)
• Ears of the Airwaves - If you have a cell phone, the Scannists may be listening. 'Nuff said. [Wired News] (November 6, 1997)
• Still Believing Anita - Hill's story says as much about the media as it does about the law or the issue of sexual harassment. Maybe more. [Wired News] (November 6, 1997)
• Gay Kids in the Real World - Youth need honesty, support and understanding, not Net-baiting legislation seeking to pull the wool over society's eyes. [Wired News] (November 4, 1997)
• The 8-Step Cure for Old Fartism - Filled with warring spokespeople, timorous warnings about pornography and other dangers, and disapproving harumphing about the decline of civilization, papers have become the clucking old maids of the digital age. [Wired News] (November 4, 1997)
• Journalist Bites Man - More hot gossip from Ned Brainard's poison pen. [Wired News] (November 3, 1997)
• Girl Games Unite, Sans Guns - A new promotional service formed by girl games companies is hoping to present a united front while the field grows. But the companies represented may be ignoring valid aspects of gaming, viewing them as too boyish. [Wired News] (October 30, 1997)
• Reconsidering Consent - Soon, so many people will have experienced the sensation of speaking freely about previously forbidden or unavailable topics that there may be no turning back. [Wired News] (October 30, 1997)
• Girl Games Unite, Sans Guns - A new promotional service formed by girl games companies is hoping to present a united front while the field grows. But the companies represented may be ignoring valid aspects of gaming, viewing them as too boyish. [Wired News] (October 29, 1997)
• The Supersonic Spudster - Sometimes, for nerds to satisfy their primal urges, potatoes must explode. [Wired News] (October 29, 1997)
• No Guarantee of Future Results - Did you feel a chill on the 10th anniversary of Black Monday? [Wired News] (October 28, 1997)
• Rants & Raves: Free Music, Clueless Katz ... - Readers Seize Bandwidth [Wired News] (October 28, 1997)
• Fasting at the CNET Feast - More hot gossip from Ned Brainard's poison pen. [Wired News] (October 27, 1997)
• Clueless in the Newsroom - After decades of raging Old Fartism, newspapers no longer have any younger readers to speak of, nor does anybody in America under the age of 40 notice or care what's happening to them. [Wired News] (October 24, 1997)
• Speaking in Links - If we agree that finely tuned hypertext can transform a mediocre piece into a more engaging one, then shouldn't we have some idea of who's doing the tuning? [Wired News] (October 23, 1997)
• Polynesian Pop Preservationists - Mark Frauenfelder's weekly Fringe column looks at the tiki worshippers as masters of Polynesian Pop preservation. [Wired News] (October 22, 1997)
• The Feeble Empire - If any other media company had racked up the string of disasters and disappointments Microsoft's new-media division has managed in just a couple of years, heads would be rolling all over the place. [Wired News] (October 21, 1997)
• A Gift of Hypertext - Does being physically engaged with our texts - writing on the pages - make them any less sacred? [Wired News] (October 21, 1997)
• The Spinstering of Infoseek - Infoseek's most promising chance for a merger or acquisition may have passed when high-level yahoos at Yahoo nixed a possible deal. [Wired News] (October 20, 1997)
• Broad Appeal - Sites that generalize about what women want from the Web are destined for failure. [Wired News] (October 17, 1997)
• Rants & Raves: Analog Mayor, Con-Calling - Readers Seize Bandwidth [Wired News] (October 14, 1997)
• MCI's Happy Silence - It's quiet in the boardroom in the wake of WorldCom's courting. But that could be good. [Wired News] (October 13, 1997)
• Going Local - If mass media has abandoned the details of governance, Governing magazine covers them lovingly and well. [Wired News] (October 9, 1997)
• A Corollary to Moore's Law - For each innovation in chip design, reports that Moore's Law is dead will appear within 48 hours. Lately, you'd have to measure this span in negative hours. [Wired News] (October 8, 1997)
• Marv Albert: Celebrity Trumps Morality Again - Millennial historians will look back on September l997 and wonder what it was about the rise and fall of Marv Albert that made him a front-page story. [Wired News] (October 7, 1997)
• Dusty Digits - Self-appointed caretakers of little-recognized historical artifacts, antique computer collectors use the Web to present their machines, but they still like to kick back on a BBS. [Wired News] (October 6, 1997)
• Even Microserfs Do It - Seeds other than global domination are being planted around the Microsoft campus. [Wired News] (October 6, 1997)
• Mysteries of the Universe Revealed - The Edmund Scientific catalog was - and still is - proof positive that the world is full of wonders. [Wired News] (October 6, 1997)
• Could Bill Gates Really Be a Hero? - Microsoft's TV ad campaign for Internet Explorer 4.0 soft sells a concept that's hard to swallow: Respect for Bill Gates. [Wired News] (September 30, 1997)
• The Great American Cop-Out - Media might be offensive, even disturbing, but when it comes to kids and morality, parents are clearly responsible for how kids turn out, according to a new study. [Wired News] (September 30, 1997)
• Smile, You SOB - Other than extremist ranchers and the zealots at the Society of Shark Fear, everybody agrees that maintaining biodiversity is a worthy goal. But do we have to feel good about it? [Wired News] (September 29, 1997)
• Synergy Strikes Out? - A peek at SportsLine USA's revised S-1 revenue filing has tongues wagging. Ned Brainard's among them. [Wired News] (September 29, 1997)
• Don't Kill Your TV ... Yet - Last week, formidable members of the cable-TV industry announced they will soon introduce new interactive systems to bring the Internet to tens of millions of households quickly and cheaply - and much more efficiently than Microsoft ever will. [Wired News] (September 26, 1997)
• Fun with Fundies - Postfundamentalist Poppy Dixon believes that Christianity is a very interesting religion. Unfortunately, most Christians don't want to talk about the good parts. That's where her Web site comes in. [Wired News] (September 26, 1997)
• Colleges Need Digital Studies - Despite the digital world's newfound trendiness, genuine new-media majors remain the exception, not the rule. [Wired News] (September 25, 1997)
• Fear of a Tech Planet - Technology is both amoral and neutral, no better or worse than the people who create and deploy it, reflecting their values rather than making any of its own. [Wired News] (September 23, 1997)
• Softbank Shuffle Subtext - An exec movement press release is particularly revealing, if you know how to read into such things. [Wired News] (September 22, 1997)
• Burning Bummer - [Wired News] (September 15, 1997)
• X-Ray Specs for Web Surfers - An ingenious tool lets others see what's really on the minds of those who search the Web. (It isn't pretty.) [Wired News] (September 15, 1997)
• Lolita Gets Dumped - After all, a proper adaptation of Lolita wouldn't offend anyone. No, in order to really get people angry over Lolita, you have to miss, either willfully or through sheer ignorance, the novel's point. [Wired News] (September 9, 1997)
• The New Yorker Does Jobs - The Apple chieftain drifts into Tina Brown's celebrity-studded world. Ned says you can expect even more of Jobs in the magazine's pages soon. [Wired News] (September 8, 1997)
• The Princess and the Publicity - The death of the young, especially the rich, glamorous, or beautiful ones, always touches a deep nerve in our culture. And big stories always change the media that cover them. [Wired News] (September 4, 1997)
• Revving Java's Engine - Despite the hype surrounding Java's cross-platform capabilities or lack thereof, it is speed that will likely make or break the language. [Wired News] (September 3, 1997)
• The Gifts of Death - As human life moves full speed onto the Net, manifestations of life's final moments deepen the level of discourse while unburdening the bereaved of their loneliness. [Wired News] (September 2, 1997)
• Hacking Your Life Away - So, you want to write for an online magazine. Look at the Sucksters' view before you leap. [Wired News] (September 2, 1997)
• The Gifts of Death - As human life moves full speed onto the Net, manifestations of life's final moments deepen the level of discourse while unburdening the bereaved of their loneliness. [Wired News] (August 29, 1997)
• Praising Amy - As the country's most influential daily newspaper, the Times has been instrumental in propagating the idea that new information technologies are primarily decivilizing, even dangerous. [Wired News] (August 28, 1997)
• Beat Goes on in Porn Wars - When it comes to child porn, we're all a bunch of indiscriminate yahoos, and Oklahoma, home of the move to purge libraries of salacious materials, is less an anomaly than a national bellwether. [Wired News] (August 27, 1997)
• Finding A Mental Ecology - Being completely unwired is as bad as being obsessively wired. It was out of balance. I lost touch, felt remote and turned inward, narcissistic. [Wired News] (August 26, 1997)
• The ASCII Artists - A culture of Net dwellers believes that a picture's worth a thousand words - especially if they create it out of nothing but numbers, letters, and a little punctuation. [Wired News] (August 25, 1997)
• Contracts Intact - for Now - Technotrendy HarperEdge won't be canceling author agreements. At least not this week. [Wired News] (August 25, 1997)
• What, Me Funny? - Mad magazine, once an icon of American subversion, is going for a 'darker' look in an effort to get back on the cutting edge. The Sucksters are skeptical. [Wired News] (August 22, 1997)
• What, Me Funny? - Mad magazine, once an icon of American subversion, is going for a 'darker' look in an effort to get back on the cutting edge. The Sucksters are skeptical. [Wired News] (August 21, 1997)
• Why do UFOs Fly in the US? - If ever there was a publication aimed at the suspicious, techno-centered, sometimes paranoid geek and nerd hearts of America, the Fortean Times is it. [Wired News] (August 21, 1997)
• AOL Alienates Game Players - AOL boasts of its knack for building communities. Too bad it doesn't seem to mind the boycotts or bad blood that have resulted in canceling game communities that have already developed. [Wired News] (August 19, 1997)
• Invitation to a Beheading, Part III - It is one of my profound ambitions in life never to be at any event with Arianna Huffington or the information minister from Singapore, not to mention Haley Barbour and William Bennett. [Wired News] (August 19, 1997)
• AOL's Virtual Spinach - [Wired News] (August 18, 1997)
• The Cult That George Disgorged - While former President Bush can't claim to be founding father of our country, he was the butt of a joke that gave birth to a Net community: alt.bad.clams. [Wired News] (August 15, 1997)
• Stories and Cyberspace, Part II: Learn from the Kids - In her new book, Hamlet on the Holodeck: The Future of Narrative in Cyberspace, MIT professor Janet H. Murray combines the discipline of the academic with a much rarer gift. [Wired News] (August 14, 1997)
• Learning from the Drudge Debacle - The gossip dispenser made juicy bait for Net bashing by mainstream media, but other wildcats have learned: Publishing on the Net doesn't free journalists from responsibilities. [Wired News] (August 13, 1997)
• Stories and Cyberspace, Part I: Telling Digitales - Katz finds an author who groks the Net's exhilarating potential: MIT's Janet Murray. [Wired News] (August 13, 1997)
• Desiderata 2.0: The Vonnegut Affair - It's easy to condemn the Internet when the authority of the source you've just read has been blown away. But, after all pot shots, we still crave wisdom, 'meta-information' about our lives. [Wired News] (August 12, 1997)
• Fan Fiction on the Line - On the Web, where anyone can conceivably publish to millions of people, fan fiction has entered a new dimension. From a legal standpoint, whether or not fan fiction is protected speech is debatable. [Wired News] (August 11, 1997)
• Revenue in the Risqué - The 'Redneck Rampage Cuss Pack' is perfectly marketed to adolescent boys and those who like to act like 'em. [Wired News] (August 11, 1997)
• Landing Upright in a Topsy-Turvy World - Lynn Forbes displays a knack for leaping and avoiding a crash. [Wired News] (August 4, 1997)
• At Play in the Fields of New Media - A newspaper's "scoop" about Steve Jobs becoming Apple's next chairman shows that old media and new are no longer that far apart. [Wired News] (July 31, 1997)
• Hating AOL above All Else - AOL Haters are single-minded in venting their spleen. [Wired News] (July 31, 1997)
• Waiting for Water - As Katz waits for water in his mountain cabin, he learns about solitude, connection, bacteria, and beauty. [Wired News] (July 28, 1997)
• Walkout at ideaMarket - Ned Brainard comments on the company's potential for financial backing in its current "mess." [Wired News] (July 28, 1997)
• God, Geeks, and Contact - Contact moralizes, proselytizes, Hollywoodizes, and fails to satisfy. [Wired News] (July 25, 1997)
• The Decline of CNN - CNN should be preparing to celebrate its 20th birthday as a news organization on the eve of the millennium. Instead, it seems we're already writing its obituary. [Wired News] (July 24, 1997)
• Software Toys to Disgust and Amuse - Dada Software Moguls just want attention, and don't mind ruffling feathers to get it. [Wired News] (July 24, 1997)
• Building the Second Mind, Line by Line - One thing stands between humanity and a networked encyclopedia of literature: lots of typing. [Wired News] (July 21, 1997)
• Mountain Standard Time - Katz leaves the wired world and heads into the mountains for some perspective on the Net's real value. [Wired News] (July 18, 1997)
• The Enlightenment's Digital Sequel - The digital age spawns new rationalism, says Katz. [Wired News] (July 17, 1997)
• Usenet's Etiquette-Enforcement Agency - Mark Frauenfelder gets to know a loose group of Usenet housecleaners known as 'The Cancelers.' [Wired News] (July 17, 1997)
• Online Gender Wars - The Web is safe for equal-opportunity sexism and adolescent boy/girl bashing. [Wired News] (July 14, 1997)
• Young Media, Young Revolution - In the new-media wars, it's kids against those who would control them. Katz calls it a silent revolution. [Wired News] (July 14, 1997)
• Ziff's Search for Search - Word is that ZD is combing the bushes for an algorithm on which to slap its brand. Ned Brainard weighs in. [Wired News] (July 14, 1997)
• Post-Nerds, Part III: The Geek Underground - Geekdom isn't about mastering software or machinery; it's about using it. [Wired News] (July 10, 1997)
• Digital DNA Swap Meet - Would-be gods gather on the Net to obsess over their Creatures. [Wired News] (July 9, 1997)
• The Raw and the Cooked - The combination of smart filters and free-flowing data is a blow against media monopolies, Steve Silberman says. [Wired News] (July 7, 1997)
• Softbank Suddenly No Soft Touch - The financial behemoth didn't say no to only E-Minds and The Spot. Even untainted new content players are finding formerly loose purse strings now pulled tight. [Wired News] (July 7, 1997)
• Harsh on Spam - Mark Frauenfelder takes an anthropological interest in the righteous fervor of spambusters. [Wired News] (July 3, 1997)
• Girls on Film - Janelle Brown on four girls' trail from college project to Yahoo content partner. [Wired News] (July 2, 1997)
• Post-Nerds, Part I: The Geek Ascension - [Wired News] (July 1, 1997)
• Al Gore's Inside Help - The veep's daughters Karenna and Kristin are toiling at Net outfits that may have something to say about about the 2000 presidential race. [Wired News] (June 30, 1997)
• The End of Gayness - An author charts the rise and fall of a subculture. [Wired News] (June 27, 1997)
• Software Wants to Be Free - It's time for commercial software developers to honor the goal that every freeware developer shares - creating the best software possible. [Wired News] (June 27, 1997)
• After IE 4.0, What's Left for the OS? - Microsoft showed off IE 4.0 to an audience of analysts and reporters to demonstrate how much the browser can do for the desktop. [Wired News] (June 26, 1997)
• Psychic Friend's Net - In which the author seeks a peek into the future of the Web. [Wired News] (June 25, 1997)
• That Darned First Amendment! - According to the Times, free-speech protection makes the Internet a minefield. [Wired News] (June 23, 1997)
• You Heard It Here First - Even as the country awaits the Supreme Court's ruling on the CDA, one thing is clear - the act is dead meat. [Wired News] (June 23, 1997)

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