Scott Rosenberg

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  • The Shlemiel way of software

    Author Joel Spolsky talks about what Microsoft has in common with his grandparents and what Isaac Bashevis Singer has to do with code-generating schemes.
    By Scott Rosenberg December 9, 2004

  • Code that kills, for real

    Future military combat systems will require ever more complicated code, but writing software that is bug free and ready for a firefight is a challenge that gets tougher every day.
    By Scott Rosenberg May 11, 2004

  • Why software still stinks

    Programming must change -- but how? At a reunion of coding pioneers, answers abound.
    By Scott Rosenberg March 19, 2004

  • Don't worry, be sexy

    The government tells the Supreme Court that Web publishers should relax -- a Web censorship law only applies to the "worst" porn peddlers. But why should we trust it?
    By Scott Rosenberg March 3, 2004

  • Politics by other means

    The Internet may have made Howard Dean, but Dean didn't make the Net -- and his campaign's woes don't faze digital democracy's true believers.
    By Scott Rosenberg February 10, 2004

  • Argue with us!

    By Scott Rosenberg January 30, 2004

  • The long road to Longhorn

    Who knows what Microsoft's whiz-bang new Windows will look like by the time it's ready, in 2006 or beyond? In the meantime, the bloggers of Redmond will provide progress reports.
    By Scott Rosenberg December 22, 2003

  • That 1994 feeling

    RSS delivers a long-promised Internet dream -- getting you the information you want from the people you want without hassle or bother.
    By Scott Rosenberg December 4, 2003

  • Why the N.Y. Times ruins Bush's breakfast

    Columnist Paul Krugman is W's worst nightmare -- a brilliant economist who meticulously exposes the White House's rigged numbers and lies.
    By Scott Rosenberg September 8, 2003

  • "On Liberty"

    John Stuart Mill's classic is all over the Web, because it reminded us that freedom requires reckoning with "heretical opinions" -- a message we need now more than ever.
    By Scott Rosenberg August 12, 2003

  • Bugged out

    "The Bug" author Ellen Ullman talks about the Gothic terrors that lurk between the rational lines of computer code.
    By Scott Rosenberg May 16, 2003

  • How may we Web service you?

    At the O'Reilly Emerging Technologies Conference, "Web services" were all the rage. But what will happen when companies get cold feet -- and the lawsuits start?
    By Scott Rosenberg April 29, 2003

  • From the White House to the jailhouse

    If the government has long known that Sami Al-Arian was supporting terrorism, why did the controversial professor win an invitation from Karl Rove?
    By Scott Rosenberg February 25, 2003

  • Bush's dividend payoff

    The president's tax plan offers $300 billion for a handful of plutocrats, but pennies for the rest of us.
    By Scott Rosenberg January 7, 2003

  • Life on the edge

    The geek-driven world of new "decentralized" technologies like Wi-Fi, blogging and Web services is more about cutting out the middleman than finding a business model.
    By Scott Rosenberg December 13, 2002

  • Money talks, Microsoft walks

    Bill Gates lets out a big "Whew!" as the court decides that what's good for Microsoft is good for America.
    By Scott Rosenberg November 2, 2002

  • The fog of "war"

    We don't know who's winning, because President Bush -- for political reasons -- has never defined our aims or enemies.
    By Scott Rosenberg September 6, 2002

  • The media titans still don't get it

    Corporate America lost billions on the Net. That doesn't mean the medium has no value -- but the moguls remain clueless about where it lies.
    By Scott Rosenberg August 13, 2002

  • When good options turn bad

    Sure, let's punish stock-option-scamming CEOs and tighten up options accounting. But when options benefit everyday employees, they're worth defending.
    By Scott Rosenberg July 17, 2002

  • God stoppers

    The 9th Circuit judges who struck down the Pledge may be the most unpopular people in America right now. There's just one catch: They're right.
    By Scott Rosenberg June 28, 2002

  • "Unmasking Deep Throat"

    John Dean, on a decades-long quest to identify history's most elusive news source, brings new evidence to the fore in his new book.
    By Scott Rosenberg June 17, 2002

  • Much ado about blogging

    Is it the end of journalism as we know it? Or just 6 zillion writers in search of an editor? Neither.
    By Scott Rosenberg May 10, 2002

  • Microsoft's mythical man-years

    The company boasts that it's making Herculean security efforts -- but throwing more people at software problems rarely solves them.
    By Scott Rosenberg April 12, 2002

  • Where are the Mahirs of yesteryear?

    The Web thrill is gone, according to the New York Times, thanks to a critical shortage of flashes in the pan.
    By Scott Rosenberg April 1, 2002

  • Bushed!

    The Republican plan to sell defense briefings to big donors makes me miss the days when all fat cats got was a night in Clinton's Lincoln Bedroom.
    By Scott Rosenberg March 12, 2002
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