Brian Dougherty, CEO of Airset
8/18/05: Airset is a company that enables networked PIM (calender, to-do, contacts, etc.)

Carping about CARP
4/9/02: RIAA's peculiar rate structure for web casting reveals what they're really after (hint: it's not royalties).

Media consolidation revisited
4/3/02: Why the greed of integrated content companies keeps us safe, and how "media diversity" actually protects the broadcast cartel (NBC, ABC, CBS).

What's good for the Internet?
3/21/02: More on Tauzen-Dingell, and why rational incumbent monopolies are better than rational incumbent monopolies with no incentive to invest.

Wrong about telco reg
3/20/02: An economic analysis explaining why Tauzen Dingell regulation actually helps consumers even though it seems it doesn't.

The Copyright Tax
2/20/02: Back of the envelope calculation figuring out what music copyright currently costs society, the additional cost of each copywritten year, and why the current term of copyright might as well be infinite.

Stallman goes to Chicago
01/18/02: Are the four freedoms inalienable? My reactions on RMS's speech at the University of Chicago

Good, Easy Startpage
12/31/01: Copy this html to your local drive, customize it for your links, and make it your good, easy start page. Happy browsing!

The Acid Test for Intellectual Property
12/19/01: "Does this law get ideas into the public domain as quickly as possible?"

Good, Easy Email
12/12/01: How to handle 500+ emails a day without fancy technology or stress

Letter to the DoJ
12/10/01: I guess the DoJ has rolled over on consumers before, thus the Tunney Act. You all have 60 days to write to the anti-trust division and let them know what you think of the settlement. Remeber: be polite, and be constructive. Here's the email I sent today

Interview with Sleepycat CEO Michael Olson
10/29/01: How to make money with the GPL. How to promote and spread free software. How open source's experience advantage with developers gives companies a competitive edge. Sleepycat President and CEO Michael Olson shows us what happens when free software meets intelligent business strategy.

Do weblogs reduce information asymmetry?
10/15/01: How weblogs can help buyers learn more about the quality of software products and avoid lemons.

Belly of the Beast revisited.
10/12/01: Why Microsoft sees itself as a small fish, how they genuinely want to make the world better through software (but don't know how) and their plans for world domination. My reactions from a presentation by MSFT VP of Authoring and Collaboration.

The Joys of Text Expansion.
10/5/01: How a simple desktop text-expander can kill Passport (and its competitors) dead.

Belly of the Beast.
9/26/01: My reactions after visiting a Microsoft presentation. They struck me as being good people.

Why Geoffrey Moore doesn't get it.
9/24/01: Understanding the network effect (positive demand side externalities) explains technology marketing better than Moore's Chasm.

Bye-bye Bay-BeOS
9/10/01: Why BeOS was doomed when they ignored basic network economics.

Dan Libby and XML-RPC
8/31/01: Interview with Dan Libby about how he used XML-RPC at ePinions.com

Silicon Desert
8/29/01: Musings on Dubai's new Internet City by someone who grew up there. Dubai is a desert kingdom in the Middle East.

Why Gnome and KDE are misguided
8/20/01: Unix knows how to operate in a networked environment. It should not copy Windows' paper-era legacy. (Bonus: How to install the Good Easy on your Mac and gain Unix-like flexibility using a GUI, and a followup to the original post).

Paradox of the active user
1985 (mirror): Non-technical computer users 1) don't read manuals and 2)stick with known procedures, no matter how inefficient.

The Joy of Plaintext
8/8/01: Plaintext is uniquely resistant to lock-in. That's why Microsoft would like to kill it.

What's core to Open Source?
8/7/01: Open source needs to figure out what it cannot change so it's free to change everything else.

Worse is better?
7/31/01: Design, simplicity, and how providing a good customer experience trumps strict formalism.

Clue to publishers: you're selling experiences, not content
7/27/01: Argues that publishers are unprepared for the business consequences of digital data because they remain fixated on selling content, instead of realizing that they should be selling experiences.

Venture capital rationally hurts companies
7/25/01: A simple economic analysis of why venture capitalists rationally push their portfolio companies to take outsize risks.

Framing the copyright debate
7/23/01: Terms like "intellectual property" and "piracy" queer the debate between publishers and public domain advocates.

Viral software production
7/17/01: The GPL and Microsoft's "shared source" licences split the software development community.

Business model competition
7/12/01: Napster court decision restricts competition between business models based on information sharing and information control.

Licensing experience
7/10/01: Microsoft's draconian licensing regime reduces its experiential edge over open-source software.

Longer pieces

Creative Good Wireless Whitepaper
Analysis of wireless industry written in 2000. Turned out to be pretty prescient.

The Demise of Digital Dysfunction
How advanced users learn to use email (dodgy site, may not work)