Scott Rosenberg

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Why software still stinks
Programming must change -- but how? At a reunion of coding pioneers, answers abound.
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?
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.
Argue with us!
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.
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.
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.
"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.
Bugged out
"The Bug" author Ellen Ullman talks about the Gothic terrors that lurk between the rational lines of computer code.
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?
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?
Bush's dividend payoff
The president's tax plan offers $300 billion for a handful of plutocrats, but pennies for the rest of us.
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.
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.
The fog of "war"
We don't know who's winning, because President Bush -- for political reasons -- has never defined our aims or enemies.
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.
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.
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.
"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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Conservative squeeze play
It was bad enough when right-wing ideologues convinced Bush to orate about the "axis of evil." But now they want him to really do something about it.
Bushed!
You can pin a lot on Osama bin Laden, Mr. President, but not the soaring debts you've stuck us with.
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