"online diary" - a biweekly column in the new york times
- column 80
- My Final Diary: A Last Look at Web Destinations
- column 79
- Private Pictures for All; Big Buddy is Watching You; Online Health Calculators; On the Radar
- column 78
- Literary Chain Letter; Fake Titles; Jeff Harris's Day in the Life; On the Radar
- column 77
- A Formula to Please Music Critics; A Summer Book Tour; Online Weather School; On the Radar
- column 76
- New Realm for Rowling; TvEyes; Dissect a Speech with Textalyser; On the Radar
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- Email Telepathy; Trading DVDs Online; RSS for Charity; On the Radar
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- Time Capsules Meet Geocaching; A Greek Island Reunited; Morguefile; On the Radar
- column 73
- Morphing Faces; Dude, Check This Out; Font Fun; On the Radar
- column 72
- The Trixie Code; Web Playlists; Untangling Threads with Netscan; On the Radar
- column 71
- Study Response; Random Numbers; Books With a Voice; On the Radar
- column 70
- Kindness of Strangers; For the Nostalgic Gamer; Parsing a Parsec; On the Radar
- column 69
- Please Sign Here; Digital Bloodhound; Imaginary Girlfriends; On the Radar
- column 68
- Big Ideas; GoHook Auctions Database; Bar Code Yourself; On the Radar
- column 67
- Your Celebrity Idol; Creature of the Day; Wikitravel; On the Radar
- column 66
- Virtual Graves; Haunted by a Song; World Internet Project; On the Radar
- column 65
- Is a Pen Male or Female?; The ESP Game; Google as Dictionary; On the Radar
- column 64
- The Year in Searches; Best and Worst of 2003; Stat Wrap; On the Radar
- column 63
- The Grocery Game; Mr. Toad Rides Again; Open Video Project; On the Radar
- column 62
- Political Profiling; Blunt Truth; Places Online; On the Radar
- column 61
- Parsing Thanksgiving Recipe Searches; Positive Press; NaNoWriMo; On the Radar
- column 60
- Upcoming.org; Stump the Bookseller; Interview Hitler; On the Radar
- column 59
- Blog Bog; E-Mail Pony Express; Location Shot; On the Radar
- column 58
- A Cyberstalker Typology; Wordsmith; Please Release Me; On the Radar
- column 57
- Celebrities On Call; Creative Test; Under My Skin; On the Radar
- column 56
- Gender Genie; Amazon Fun; How Everyday Things Are Made; On the Radar
- column 55
- Darwinian Poetry; Accent the Positive; Color My Web; On the Radar
- column 54
- Can Johnny Blog?; Daily Jolt of College Life; National Geo's One-Stop Research; On the Radar
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- BumpList; 'Word of God' Search Engine; Most Emailed Photos; On the Radar
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- True Stories; Magic Mail; Zip It; On the Radar
- column 51
- Summer Reading Sites; Me and BillyBob; ARKive; On the Radar
- column 50
- Start Your Broomsticks; Natalie's Fotolog; ListsofBests; On the Radar
- column 49
- Friendster; Group Wish Lists; Net Research; On the Radar
- column 48
- Test Your Biases; Acrophobia Returns; When I Was Little; On the Radar
- column 47
- You Can Be a Film Mogul; BuddyZoo; Rent a Book; On the Radar
- column 46
- Inside the Old Bailey; The Art is in the Mail; Pronunciation Guides; On the Radar
- column 45
- Sam Brown Liked My Title; Accountability Partners; Mapping Network Theory; On the Radar
- column 44
- 20 Questions; Get Crunk in the Drop; Shorter Emails; On the Radar
- column 43
- Emergency Emails; TalentDig; Words Bursts; On the Radar
- column 42
- Classroom Quotes; Photoblogs; The SIBL Project; On the Radar
- column 41
- Love Clicks; Cybersleuths; Location, Location...; On the Radar
- column 40
- Everyone I Know; Children's Art; Virtual Death; On the Radar
- column 39
- Ticketstub to Paradise; You Rule at NationStates.net; Sam's Blog (as in Pepys); On the Radar
- column 38
- New Year New Goals; Where Men Lose; Philosopher's Tome; On the Radar
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- column 37
- Clickable Advent Calendars; Picture Yourself; 2002 On the Web; On the Radar
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column 36
- URL of Sandwich; Hoax Photo Test; TV With Footnotes; On the Radar
- column 35
- Cranberry Relished; Googling Around; Cataloguing the Imaginary; On the Radar
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- Tell Your Story; Chief Moose Watch; Trust.com; Ellis Island Update
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- Halloween On the Web; Japanese Commercials; Laughter Lab; On the Radar
- column 32
- Dialect Survey; Bookmarklets; Drive Me Insane; On the Radar
- column 31
- Computer Waiting Games; Build Your Own Dictionary; Meetup; On the Radar
- column 30
- Ellis Island Dispute; First Lines; Don't Link to Us; On the Radar
- column 29
- Celebrity Dreams; Group Draw; Visible Earth; On the Radar
- column 28
- Blog Nation; Theban Mapping; Google by Mail; Pop Culture Junk Mail
- column 27
- Celluloid Physics; Blind Gossip; Post Imperfect; Librarians Let Loose; On the Radar
- column 26
- Free Your Books at BookCrossing; Whatsbetter.com; A Man and His Stuff at Mc.Clintock.com; Five is Enough (The5K.org)
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- Independence Undone; Death Delivered; Crossword Poetry; Brevity Bunch; On the Radar
- column 24
- Yours, David; The Useless Files; Populist Playlists; Web Credibility
- column 23
- Ask Yahoo; The Voyeur Web; Singlefile.com; DelayedMail.com
- column 22
- Photography Issue: The Historical Photo, The Hobbyists, The News Photo, The Caption
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- Ebert's DVD Democracy; Findsounds.com; Devices of Wonder; Life Moments Online
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- Museum of Online Museums; Found Photos; When I Was Your Age; Did You Feel It?
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- Phobia List; He Surfed, She Surfed; 1911 Redux; Oops, Misspelled Britney Again
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- Spam Radio; All Look Same?; Fondest Wishes; Everything After 9/11
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- Mortal Countdown; A Long Way to Panama; Booklend.net; Flight 404
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- Numbers Game; Chu Who?; Weatherbug; Transwate This
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- Love Letters; Googlewhacking; Olympics Site Unseen?; E-Mail Lit
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- Barncams; Tech Illiteracy; Idea Banks; Random Errors
- column 13
- Save My Show; Web Shrinking?; I'm Paul!; Keyboard Thrills
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- Funny Business; In the Film Loop; Help for Net Addicts; The Year in Searches
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- Usenet Unearthed; Art of the Error Messsage; It or Not It; Death Be Not Found
- column 10
- Online Secret Santa; Presidential Prayer Team; Nokia Game
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- Thanksgiving Phrasebook; Harry Potter for Adults; Theme Park Insider
- column 8
- Middling Earth; Long URLs; Make a Shorter Link; OldVersion.com
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- Ebooks in Libraries; The End of Free?; What Becomes a Legend; Mapping Cyberspace
- column 6
- No More AOL CDs; Foresight Exchange; Ebooks on 9/11; Hunger Site Returns
- column 5
- Web Sites for Keeping Up With the Tragedy
- column 4
- The Online Aftermath of 9/11
- column 3
- Lies, Damned Lies, and Emails; George Carlin Fights Back; ICQ = I Seek Status; Dreams and Nightmares
- column 2
- Dear Thermostat, Sex and the Surname, The Chattering Class, Selectors, In Search of Marijuana
- column 1
- Mining Ellis Island, Back-Seat Mouser, Demise of Hunger Site, Movie Spoilers, Quickbrowse
culture stories
- one picture, one thousand tags, for the new york times
- what do you see when you see a work of art? let the world know by adding your "tags" to online databases of famous artworks
- flexible hours, using your PC, and never leaving home, for the new york times
- online volunteering, long thought of as more superficial than on-site volunteering, has entered a new, smarter phase
- internet matchmaking: those offering help and those needing it, for the new york times
- after hurricane katrina, web denizens found new ways to help victims by establishing their own charity networks online
- passionate peeping into others' depths, for the new york times
- a new magazine collects prurient Polaroids, smutty journals and raunchy drawings that have been found on the street, under Coke machines, in abandoned houses -- whereverer things get lost
- "the secret garden" has deep island roots, for the new york times
- frances hodgson burnett's masterpiece was written in a garden overlooking long island's manhasset bay
- sites and sensibilities: a world without end for fans of jane austen, for the new york times
- janeites have created hundreds of online stories inspired by austen's novels
- mining the minds of the masses, for the new york times
- a new type of online volunteering taps the excess brainpower, and good will, of web users
- online book clubs: everything but the food, for the new york times
- do you need muffins to discuss great books? no, but a modem helps
- time in a bottle, for the new york times
- new millennium? it's time capsule time
- beyond geography: mapping the unknowns of cyberspace, for the new york times
- creating maps of the 'common mental geography' that lies beyond our computer screens
- dear author, for salon
- what happened when novelist vikram chandra put his email address on his books
- fleeing spam, some go by way of the foo, for the new york times
- entering a fake address may not prevent unwanted e-mail, just deflect it
- you are what you type, for salon
- why are online personality tests so popular?
- aiming camera at web - and himself, for the new york times
- doug block's documentary on personal home pages
- sweet slips of the ear, for the new york times
- websites that collect mondegreens (misheard lyrics)
- if a payphone rings, who will answer?, for the new york times
- websites devoted to the mysterious imperative of a ringing payphone
- personal polls help the nosy sate curiousity, for the new york times
- about the george gallup in all of us
- many sites to confess one's sins, for the new york times
- catharsis without judgement
- a different breed of freight-hoppers, for the new york times
- hobo "ideal" thrives online
- web erotica aims for new female customers, for the new york times
- a sex site of their own, finally
business/media stories
- korea's high-tech utopia
- new songdo city, located on a man-made island of nearly 1,500 acres off the Incheon coast about 40 miles from Seoul, is rising from the ground up as a "ubiquitous city" where all major information systems (residential, medical, business, governmental and the like) share data, and computers are built into the houses, streets and office buildings
- a cyberspace reading room for wise guys, for the new york times
- ganglandnews.com is the place where those interested in the Mafia, including current members, go for the latest underworld news
- author goes directly to readers, for the new york times
- novelist donna woolfolk cross set out to save her book from the trash heap with a personal marketing campaign that has included calling more than 350 reading groups who have chosen her book
- behind bars, a market for goods, for the new york times
- the incarceration rate has tripled since 1980. for some, statistics like that are a national embarrassment. for others, they are a marketing opportunity.
- publisher's web books spark hardcover sales, for the new york times
- science-fiction house baen books sells more printed books by giving away cheap -- or even free -- versions online
- stalking the hot new trends on the lycos trail, for the new york times
- there is such a thing as a crystal ball, at least when it comes to pop-culture trends
- the spread of news by e-mail is becoming news itself, for the new york times
- was last week's biggest news story the one most clicked on, or the one most passed around?
- we got your e-mail, just don't expect a reply, for the new york times
- can e-commerce ever command respect if no one answers your emails?
some shorter pieces I like
- do-it-yourself cartography
- mashing maps of just about anywhere with data on just about anything, for the nyt mag "year in ideas" issue
- pass over a frothy mug of home brew version 1.0
- it's only natural that open-source software would be followed by open-source beer!
- please don't call it a g-rated dispute
- the mpaa cracks down on the use of movie ratings to label fan fiction
- an online insight into a suspect
- michael mcdermott killed seven people at his workplace. he also had this amazon "wish list"
- a new kit from lego for auteurs of bricks
- lego has a new movie-making kit for kids, but adults have been showing so-called "brick films" on the web for years
- a benefactor's link takes a hospital by surprise
- the web offers donors of questionable reputation a chance to applaud their own generosity
- law newsletter has to sneak past filters
- there's a reason the e-mail newsletter tech law journal misspells words like "pornography"
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