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Web Citations ..... 00.10.11 Canned Substance Online or on TV, is there any reason to take in the Bush-Gore debates? Nicholas Confessore considers. 00.09.13 Why (Some) Americans Hate the Internet Attack ads come to the Web. 00.08.02 Pseudo Politics Live from the sky box at the GOP Convention in Philadelphia. 00.07.19 Nothing to Fear Sage Stossel looks at befearless.com, Oxygen Media's not-so-courageous venture into online politics. 00.06.07 On the Inside Looking In Who are these people? And why would anyone pay $19.95 to read about them? Jane Rosenzweig on the strange logic of Inside.com. 00.05.24 A Channel Called "You" Joanna Smith Rakoff looks at the latest in TV-Web convergence. 00.05.10 Leveling Mountains David A. Taylor reports on the Mountain Forum, a boon to hill people around the globe. 00.04.06 Sucking Sounds Is politics on the Web a bust? Nicholas Confessore investigates the new wave of for-profit "politics portals." 00.03.15 Conscientious Clicks Alec Appelbaum on why the Web should do better than one-click charity. 00.02.16 Get a Life Katie Bacon on Cyberguy, DotComGuy, and other intrepid trailblazers on the e-commerce frontier. 00.01.26 DigitalDivide.com Wen Stephenson on why new commercial efforts to bridge the "digital divide" may only make it wider. 99.12.22 Shake Your Musicmaker Are the days of the album format numbered? Ben Auburn looks at Musicmaker.com and other sites that let you build your own CD compilations. 99.12.01 Morrisocracy Nicholas Confessore on Vote.com, Dick Morris's foray into online democracy. 99.11.24 Revenge of the Wizards Harvey Blume looks at Neal Stephenson's "In the Beginning Was the Command Line," and wonders if a Linux triumph is really what we want. 99.11.03 Hey Ho, GIFs Must Go! Charles C. Mann contemplates Burn All GIFs Day, perhaps the first political protest ever staged because of an algorithm. 99.10.21 A Penny for Your 'pinion Ben Auburn on what Epinions.com learned from the Weblog, and what Webloggers may be learning about the Web. (Hint: it has something to do with money.) 99.10.07 Heard It Through the Grapevine Forget Windows, or even Linux. The defining artifact of the Information Age may be the chain e-mail. A testimonial by Nicholas Confessore. 99.09.09 The Addiction Addiction Howard Rheingold on the perennial hoo-ha over "Internet addiction." 99.08.11 Mirror, Mirror Josh Ozersky on The Blair Witch Project and the Net's latest exercise in self-flattery. 99.07.29 The Net's Next Vice Online gambling is set to take off. Enter (who else?) the United States government. 99.07.15 The Great Divide The Silicon Valley rich are very different from you and me. 99.06.30 Sim City The virtual partition of Jerusalem is a fait accompli. 99.06.23 Politics Made Simple A new political site aims for the GenX mind—and shows us what the world does not need now. 99.06.09 Front Runners Presidential campaigns are starting earlier and earlier. Here's how the field is shaping up for 2024. 99.05.19 Menace to Society The hype isn't the most annoying thing about the new Star Wars release. 99.05.06 All Crime, All the Time An online news site gives the people what they want. 99.04.22 Cutting-Edge Coupons The digital revolution comes to a supermarket near you. 99.04.14 Not Your Father's Antiwar Movement Are these the new peaceniks? Opposition to Clinton's war has made for some very strange bedfellows. 99.04.08 Someone Who Cares Wants You to Know As Emily Post might have said, sometimes anonymity is the best policy. 99.04.01 Wheeling and Dealing It all comes down to this: Would you buy a used (or new) car from these Web sites? 99.03.17 Lifetime Achievement Stanley Kubrick (1928-1999) was a filmmaker who kept his distance from Hollywood. His vision appears ever more original—and lonely. 99.03.04 Modem Bride Wedding planning made so easy even your mother can handle it. 99.02.25 Be Fruitful and Multiply When it comes to modern reproductive technology, many are turning to the Web for a helping hand. 99.02.17 Democratic Vistas "I sing the body electric," Walt Whitman wrote. Little did he know what he was prophesying. A look at Robert Pinsky's Favorite Poem Project. 99.02.03 Something for Everyone As more and more live video comes to the Web, there's always something on—but is there anything to watch? 99.01.27 The Law and Spirit of the Letter The digital age may (or may not) spell the death of print, but it has breathed new life into the art of type. 99.01.20 Be-In Digital In some quarters, the spirit of Haight-Ashbury is still kicking. Should we care? 99.01.13 Guiding Light Outside the Islamic world, the Net can serve as eyes and ears to the faithful. 99.01.06 What Side Are You On? Order and chaos, right and wrong, good and evil. True believers know what the U.S. v. Microsoft case is really about. 98.12.30 Head for the Hills Are you prepared for Y2K and impending global chaos? Find help on the Web (while you still can). 98.12.17 Unified Mouse Theory Welcome to the wonderful world of Disney. 98.12.10 Beta-testing the Bible Not just another digital-age prophecy. 98.12.03 Break on Through Portal, n. 1. A door, gate, or entrance; esp: a grand or imposing one. 98.11.25 Digital Sunlight, Digital Shadows Using the Web to shine light on campaign financing is supposed to make elections more honest. If only. 98.11.18 A Little Help From My ... Friends? Hey, it worked with Linux. Enlisting the aid of countless strangers is a strategy that's catching on. 98.11.11 Biotech at the Barricades Some would say the avant-garde is dead. This avant-garde wants to live to forever. 98.11.05 Dharma Geeks Sure, there's Buddhism on the Net, but maybe the Net itself is Buddhist. 98.10.28 Revisions of Slavery What the Web accomplishes that neither Hollywood filmmakers nor PBS documentarists can. 98.10.21 Liberty and Linux for All Microsoft's worst nightmare may not be a courtroom in Washington, D.C. 98.10.15 Everything for Sale In the world of online auctions, anything (and everything) goes on the block. 98.10.08 The Numbers Game Baseball's days as our national pastime may be numbered. 98.09.30 Neurodiversity On the neurological underpinnings of geekdom. 98.09.23 It's the Medium, Stupid Amidst all the clamor over the Starr Report's release, one Webzine reminds us what the Net was supposed to promise—and still does. 98.09.16 Psychotherapy on the Net Boldly going where Freud never went. 98.09.10 Celebrity Trades With the market in turmoil, the only safe bets may be at the box office. 98.09.02 There's Something About Harry How a twenty-six-year-old college dropout became the king of "film geeks"—and the bane of big Hollywood studios. 98.08.20 The Second Coming Jesus and Elvis meet Dolly. 98.08.12 New Definition A preview of the Oxford English Dictionary's electronic edition points the way to a new kind of reference work. 98.08.05 The Lolita Effect What Vladimir Nabokov and Bill Clinton have in common. 98.07.30 Normandy: 1944 As Saving Private Ryan sweeps the country, learn about the reality behind the celluloid images. 98.07.22 Investigating the Renaissance An interactive exhibit shows how digital imaging can reveal a painting's secrets. 98.07.15 Miles Ahead An elegant multimedia tribute to the music (and commercial appeal) of Miles Davis. 98.07.08 Eminent Domains Making sense of the great Internet land grab. 98.07.01 Artists in Lab Coats Call it The Work of Art in the Age of Scientific Photography. 98.06.24 Armchair Activism Those too busy (or lazy) for environmental causes have no more excuses. 98.06.18 Free Truman Burbank! For some, television's pernicious influence is no joking matter. 98.06.04 Alexandria's Ghosts The line between an archive and a rubbish heap is a fine one. 98.05.27 Goin' to the "Chapel" Cementing online relationships just got a whole lot easier. 98.05.20 Virtuala Esperanto A language of optimists takes root on the Net. 98.05.13 6 Billion Human Beings Humanity en masse, and one at a time. 98.05.06 Beyond Interface The state of art on the Net. 98.04.29 Child's Play The CIA reaches out to a new generation of spooks. 98.04.23 Multicultural Lite A multimedia "essay" has technology serve humanity, and vice versa. 98.04.16 Do-It-Yourself Adventure "Interactive fiction" comes to the Web. 98.04.08 The "Why?"s Have It For a nation of strangers, the simplest questions can help bridge the widest distances. 98.04.01 Dances With Words Experiments in "information choreography." 98.03.25 Non-virtual Communities Competing visions of post-suburban life give new meaning to the "global village." 98.03.18 Gothic Gardening Martha Stewart it's not. 98.03.11 Pay Day Slate's big gamble. 98.03.04 Banking on Bright Ideas What do lost-pet ads, dentist-office ceilings, and in-flight recordings have in common? 98.02.25 Group Projects For these techno-savvy kids, the world is their classroom. 98.02.19 Mapping Cyberspace Is there a "there" there? 98.02.11 Information-Free Sometimes the Web is its own best antidote. 98.02.04 Clintonalia Investigating rumors of a vast conspiracy.. 98.01.28 Eye Candy Art for the interface's sake. 98.01.22 Alternating Currents An online exhibit surveys the impact of technology on late-twentieth-century art. 98.01.15 Janeites Unite For the Austen-obsessed, it looks to be nothing less than an ideal marriage. 98.01.08 Inquiring Minds What questions are on our "most complex and sophisticated minds"? 97.12.31 Sites of the Year A look back at our favorite sites of 1997, from witches to Big Macs, from insect microscopy to the summit of Everest. 97.12.24 Video Gets Real Believe it or not, there are uses for streaming video that go beyond entertainment. 97.12.18 Speaking in Tongues AltaVista is serious about global communication. 97.12.10 Weird News Is Good News How our eccentricities can bring us together. 97.12.04 Entertainment Asylum Though this be madness, yet there is method in 't. 97.11.26 Terminal Care Grave sites aren't what they used to be. 97.11.19 Making the eSCENE Must fiction be print to be hip? 97.11.12 The Living and the Dead A in-depth look at death in America reveals how stories become the salves of the living. 97.11.05 The Wings of Perseus The modern-day world of the ancients. 97.10.29 Trail Blazing A new Internet guide with venerable roots. 97.10.22 Bureaucrats with 'Tude The IRS tries to lighten up. It's a bit of a strain. 97.10.16 Revolution 2.0 Esther Dyson wants to redesign the digital world—or at least get the brainstorming started. 97.10.08 News You Can't Use The art of the parody is alive and well. 97.10.01 A Prairie Home-Page Companion Don't know what socks to wear? Ask Garrison Keillor. 97.09.24 The Witch's Voice Coming out of the broom closet. 97.09.17 Chess on the Net An online community where those with the best moves always mate. 97.09.10 In the Valley of the Kings Breaking new ground in Egypt—and on the Web. 97.09.04 Autumn Tapestry The traditional art of weaving—in code. 97.08.27 Bibliocity What better place for bibliophiles, bibliopoles, bibliotaphs, and bibliomaniacs to congregate? 97.08.20 Car Talk It's not just on NPR. 97.08.13 The Official Guide to Bedlam. The teeming, chaotic, utterly bizarre world of popular music on the Web—brought to you by MTV and Yahoo!. 97.08.07 Shakespeare's Theatre A multimedia tribute to the reopening of the Globe. 97.07.30 Classically Inclined A refreshingly fundamental approach to classical music.
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