http://dir.salon.com/topics/view_from_the_top/?source=rss&aim=view_from_the_top en-us Copyright 2007 Salon.com. Fri, 21 Mar 2003 12:03:00 PST By Stephanie Zacharek Fri, 21 Mar 2003 12:03:00 PST http://www.salon.com/ent/movies/review/2003/03/21/view/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/ent/movies/review/2003/03/21/view/index.html?source=rss Gwyneth Paltrow glows in a light airplane comedy that's actually funny. By Ray Sawhill Fri, 21 Mar 2003 12:03:00 PST http://www.salon.com/tech/view/2000/11/03/dutton/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/tech/view/2000/11/03/dutton/index.html?source=rss Not content with pushing buttons at Arts & Letters Daily, Denis Dutton now plans to shake up the publishing industry. By Damien Cave Fri, 21 Mar 2003 12:03:00 PST http://www.salon.com/tech/view/2000/10/23/cella/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/tech/view/2000/10/23/cella/index.html?source=rss BountyQuest CEO Charles Cella explains why his Web site is offering cash to patent destroyers. By Damien Cave Fri, 21 Mar 2003 12:03:00 PST http://www.salon.com/tech/view/2000/10/16/auerbach/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/tech/view/2000/10/16/auerbach/index.html?source=rss Get ready for a shake-up: Radical Karl Auerbach just got elected to the Internet's top governing body. By Damien Cave Fri, 21 Mar 2003 12:03:00 PST http://www.salon.com/tech/view/2000/10/09/mojo_nation/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/tech/view/2000/10/09/mojo_nation/index.html?source=rss Forget Napster and Gnutella. Jim McCoy's Mojo Nation is the coolest file-trading service on the Net. By Damien Cave Fri, 21 Mar 2003 12:03:00 PST http://www.salon.com/tech/view/2000/10/02/garland_simon/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/tech/view/2000/10/02/garland_simon/index.html?source=rss In Garland Simon's future, everyone and everything will be on camera, all the time. By Sean Dugan Fri, 21 Mar 2003 12:03:00 PST http://www.salon.com/tech/view/2000/09/25/robert_graham/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/tech/view/2000/09/25/robert_graham/index.html?source=rss A security specialist explains why his open-source version of the FBI's snooping technology is a victory for privacy fans. By Damien Cave Fri, 21 Mar 2003 12:03:00 PST http://www.salon.com/tech/view/2000/09/18/dayton/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/tech/view/2000/09/18/dayton/index.html?source=rss Earthlink's founder, Sky Dayton, explains why spending $7.5 million for the business.com domain name was a smart deal. By Damien Cave Fri, 21 Mar 2003 12:03:00 PST http://www.salon.com/tech/view/2000/09/11/tivo/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/tech/view/2000/09/11/tivo/index.html?source=rss TiVo helps you find and record TV shows it thinks you'll like, and shares your viewing habits with networks and advertisers. By David Kushner Fri, 21 Mar 2003 12:03:00 PST http://www.salon.com/tech/view/2000/09/05/thresh/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/tech/view/2000/09/05/thresh/index.html?source=rss Dennis "Thresh" Fong leaves the deathmatch arena to try his hand at building a business. By Damien Cave Fri, 21 Mar 2003 12:03:00 PST http://www.salon.com/tech/view/2000/08/28/uprizer/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/tech/view/2000/08/28/uprizer/index.html?source=rss Rob Kramer and Ian Clarke's new venture, Uprizer, wants to be the Red Hat of peer-to-peer networks. What's behind their wall of secrecy? By Damien Cave Fri, 21 Mar 2003 12:03:00 PST http://www.salon.com/tech/view/2000/08/22/scour/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/tech/view/2000/08/22/scour/index.html?source=rss Dan Rodrigues defends his multimedia search engine, even as it faces a nasty lawsuit. By Damien Cave Fri, 21 Mar 2003 12:03:00 PST http://www.salon.com/tech/view/2000/08/14/critical_path/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/tech/view/2000/08/14/critical_path/index.html?source=rss Critical Path has faced stock drops and layoffs, but CEO Doug Hickey won't be lumped in with the losers. By Janelle Brown Fri, 21 Mar 2003 12:03:00 PST http://www.salon.com/tech/view/2000/08/08/atrandom/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/tech/view/2000/08/08/atrandom/index.html?source=rss AtRandom publisher Jonathan Karp is looking for literary revelation -- and mass readership -- from digital books. By Damien Cave Fri, 21 Mar 2003 12:03:00 PST http://www.salon.com/tech/view/2000/07/31/sdmi/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/tech/view/2000/07/31/sdmi/index.html?source=rss Talal Shamoon, a key technologist for the Secure Digital Music Initiative, says that he's found the key to protecting copyrighted tunes. By Damien Cave Fri, 21 Mar 2003 12:03:00 PST http://www.salon.com/tech/view/2000/07/24/dot_tv/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/tech/view/2000/07/24/dot_tv/index.html?source=rss The CEO of a company that administers the domain name for the island nation of Tuvalu thinks it could be more profitable than .com. By Janelle Brown Fri, 21 Mar 2003 12:03:00 PST http://www.salon.com/tech/view/2000/07/17/rob_reid/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/tech/view/2000/07/17/rob_reid/index.html?source=rss Rob Reid shelved Listen.com's legal action, but he says it'll take an act of Congress to resolve the digital music tug of war. By Wendy M. Grossman Fri, 21 Mar 2003 12:03:00 PST http://www.salon.com/tech/view/2000/07/10/autonomy/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/tech/view/2000/07/10/autonomy/index.html?source=rss At Autonomy, Mike Lynch creates programs that act like people do, analyzing words and extracting ideas. By Janelle Brown Fri, 21 Mar 2003 12:03:00 PST http://www.salon.com/tech/view/2000/07/05/firmage/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/tech/view/2000/07/05/firmage/index.html?source=rss A tale of off-world visitation gave USWeb founder Joe Firmage no end of trouble -- but he's still alive, kicking and raising gobs of venture capital for his latest crusade. By Damien Cave Fri, 21 Mar 2003 12:03:00 PST http://www.salon.com/tech/view/2000/06/26/loudeye/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/tech/view/2000/06/26/loudeye/index.html?source=rss Martin Tobias' film about a cross-country Harley ride prompted another journey -- into multimedia encoding. By Damien Cave Fri, 21 Mar 2003 12:03:00 PST http://www.salon.com/tech/view/2000/06/19/dreamlife/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/tech/view/2000/06/19/dreamlife/index.html?source=rss Peter Lund, formerly CEO of CBS, teams up with self-help guru Tony Robbins to build an online audience of people who want to be their best. By Janelle Brown Fri, 21 Mar 2003 12:03:00 PST http://www.salon.com/tech/view/2000/06/12/adams/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/tech/view/2000/06/12/adams/index.html?source=rss At h2g2.com, Douglas Adams is trying to make his guide to the galaxy come to life. By Damien Cave Fri, 21 Mar 2003 12:03:00 PST http://www.salon.com/tech/view/2000/06/05/mylackey/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/tech/view/2000/06/05/mylackey/index.html?source=rss "Will work for options" was the motto that built the new economy, but mylackey.com's Brian McGarvey takes it to new extremes. Housecleaning anyone? By Damien Cave Fri, 21 Mar 2003 12:03:00 PST http://www.salon.com/tech/view/2000/05/30/hank_barry/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/tech/view/2000/05/30/hank_barry/index.html?source=rss Attorney-turned-interim CEO Hank Barry promises to make money, not war, for the beleaguered music-swapping service. By Mark Compton Fri, 21 Mar 2003 12:03:00 PST http://www.salon.com/tech/view/2000/05/22/kemeny/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/tech/view/2000/05/22/kemeny/index.html?source=rss Photobit CEO Sabrina Kemeny's tiny image sensors will bring us "Get Smart"-style watches and cellphones that take snapshots.