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From Slate, an article about Vonage, a new entrant in the Internet telephony market. The difference between these guys and the other players? Vonage lets you plug a regular telephone into your broadband connection – and voila – dial tone. Flat rate $40/month for unlimited calling, call waiting, voicemail, caller ID. On its own, that’s…

Another item from the archives – this one from late November in Slate. Paul Boutin, a technology writer for Wired, Salon, Slate, etc., suggests that the last thing that should happen is for the geeks to play politics – they should continue to play the game on their own terms. Titled Silicon Valley vs. K…

As bad as my travel has been lately, I must confess that I’ve never come close to having a day go this badly while on the road: WINNIPEG, Canada (Reuters) — It took an airport metal detector to give a Canadian woman a clue to why she was suffering from persistent stomach aches four months…

Finally broke down and bought a Treo (the 180) to replace my current cell phone and PDA. Thanks to Ernie’s rave reviews, I felt pretty confident that this was the right move. Bonus: it’s a GSM phone (so it’ll work in London, which I visit about every six weeks) and T-Mobile has the GPRS service…

I’ve been meaning to write something on the Total Information Awareness (TIA) inititive underway at that bulwark of civil liberties, the Bush Administration. But my travel schedule the past few weeks has been more than a bit hectic, and I haven’t gotten around to it. Declan McCullagh (DC correspondent for News.com) has an interesting little…

My long-time friend Josh Marshall is getting credit for much of the attention paid to Trent Lott’s offensive remarks last week. As well he should – nice work Josh!

Help from the CrowdI love this story. A ripoff artist gets caught because the network worked. A human network, in this case, augmenting the virtual one.[Dan Gillmor’s eJournal]

Want to change your Windows NT or Windows 2000 boot-up screen? Take a visit over to this site to follow some pretty straightforward instructions on how to do it. (Not for the faint of heart – you’re changing a Windows system file.) In about 20 minutes, I was able to add my company’s logo to…

I’m still alive. Quiet and exhausted, but alive. Yesterday was fairly typical of days on the road lately: 5am: alarm goes off. In a fog, I stumble out of bed. “Where am I?” Phone says Marriott Courtyard, Crystal City. “Right. DC.” “Why am I in DC?” “Why’s the alarm going off?” Shower clears the fog.…

The New York Times runs an article by Barnaby Feder announcing that WiFi is “hot” but that profit potential is “tepid”. (Always nice to see the Times doing its part for vocabulary appreciation.) A couple quotes: Many of the early leaders in Wi-Fi are obscure companies like Proxim, Buffalo, Linksys and Dlink. … [T]he communications…