- A Netizen's Swan Song -
Jon Katz bids HotWired farewell -- praising freedom, interactivity, and his fellow geeks.
[Wired News] (August 27, 1998)
- Reconsidering Ryan -
Flamed by warriors and peaceniks alike, Katz reconsiders Saving Private Ryan. [Wired News]
(August 25, 1998)
- Cheap Flights to the Future
- A startup's patent may transform the balance of power between vendors and consumers,
says Katz. [Wired News] (August 19, 1998)
- Freedom from the Press -
The press will pay a price for shoving the Lewinsky tale down our throats, says Katz.
[Wired News] (August 14, 1998)
- The Near-Space Race -
Mail-order model rocketry, once popular among suburban teens, is not just for youngsters
anymore. The kids have grown up -- and so have the rockets. By Mark Frauenfelder. [Wired
News] (August 10, 1998)
- Virtual Faith - Gen-X
irreverence may be a tonic for established religion, reports Katz. [Wired News] (August
6, 1998)
- Hyping Private Ryan - The
marketing push for Spielberg's latest rivals the D-Day invasion, says Katz. [Wired News] (August
3, 1998)
- A Home in Cyberspace - As
frequent relocation becomes a fact of life in the new economy, a reflection on the
consolations of online neighborhoods. [Wired News] (July 30, 1998)
- Can You Name the Real Scandal?
- Starting with a bang, Brill's Content hits the corrupt media right between the eyes.
[Wired News] (July 21, 1998)
- Tina, Queen of Hype -
Air-kissing hype aside, Tina Brown's record at The New Yorker gives Katz pause. [Wired
News] (July 21, 1998)
- Defining Geekdom, Part III
- As geeks and suits vie for world domination, Katz's money's on the geeks. [Wired News] (July
9, 1998)
- Defining Geekdom, Part II
- Modern-day geeks share two obsessions, says Katz: new tech and pop culture. [Wired News]
(July 7, 1998)
- Defining Geekdom, Part I -
Brainy, grumpy, wary, obsessive: Jon Katz recounts the rise of the geek. [Wired News] (July
2, 1998)
- The X-Files - Turning lust
to UST, The X-Files brings a great love story to the big screen, says Katz. [Wired News] (June
30, 1998)
- Virtual Sadism - The world
of norns gets creepier with the appearance of a torturer in the breeding community. [Wired
News] (June 29, 1998)
- US-centrism on the Net -
With the US soon to be an online minority, will we stop trying to dictate to the Net?
[Wired News] (June 26, 1998)
- Religion and the Digital Age
- It's time to stop treating religion with kid gloves, a graciously unsubmissive Katz
insists. [Wired News] (June 23, 1998)
- The End of the Beginning -
As the two halves of Wired Ventures part company, a reflection on three years of Wired Web
culture. By Steve Silberman. [Wired News] (June 16, 1998)
- Meet HAL's Ancestors - Can
computers think? Frauenfelder probes deep into the culture of artificial-intelligence
programming -- from chatterbots to the Turing Test. [Wired News] (June 15, 1998)
- The Anti-Seinfeld -
Skewering the cult of celebrity, Garry Shandling created TV's best show, says Katz. [Wired
News] (June 9, 1998)
- What Makes Kids Kill? -
Blaming TV violence for schoolyard slaughter makes sense, says Katz -- to the gun lobby.
[Wired News] (June 4, 1998)
- Introducing Geek Screens -
Is pop culture political? Katz's broader beat includes all geek media, "serious"
or not. [Wired News] (June 2, 1998)
- Light Fuse and Get Away -
Fringe shines a light on the fiery passions of pyrotechnics. [Wired News] (June 1,
1998)
- The Merchants of Anxiety -
New software that watches your kids' every move on the Net may seem like the answer to a
world that threatens to spin out of control. But have we forgotten the questions that
matter? By Steve Silberman. [Wired News] (May 27, 1998)
- Trust and Antitrust - When
both Microsoft and DOJ invoke your interests, be very afraid, counsels Katz. [Wired News] (May
26, 1998)
- An Online Moral Dilemma -
Should online support groups enjoy the sanctity of the confessional booth? Readers give
Jon Katz an earful. [Wired News] (May 22, 1998)
- The Tragedy in Technology
- Jon Katz casts technology as a tragic figure - meaning well, but doomed to do evil.
[Wired News] (May 19, 1998)
- The Right Presidential Speech
- What if Clinton just told the truth? Katz unreels his fantasy transcript. [Wired News] (May
8, 1998)
- Jerry's Kids - His TV show
is vile, offensive, and stupid, says Katz, but America -- and its children -- will survive
Jerry Springer. [Wired News] (May 6, 1998)
- Loving Greta - Katz
confesses his love for the rarest of the rare -- an ethical lawyer. [Wired News] (May
1, 1998)
- A Restricted Revolution? -
The Net's big moral issue isn't porn, says Katz -- it's the black/white access gap. [Wired
News] (April 28, 1998)
- Electric Hotrods - AC or
DC, these car enthusiasts believe that their vehicles are the way of the future. [Wired
News] (April 27, 1998)
- Bolts of Volts - Most
people have seen Tesla coils -- two poles with a bolt of electricity crackling up the
space between them -- in science fiction films. Coilers are the dedicated tinkerers that
build their own. [Wired News] (April 16, 1998)
- Absinthe Devotees: The Green
Fog - While revivalists of the outlawed liquor take their inspiration from 19th
century artistic ne'er do-wells, they gather their resources on the Web. [Wired News] (April
7, 1998)
- Art Imitates Life -
Primary Colors isn't about sex, says Katz, but idealism - and how DC politics kills it.
[Wired News] (April 3, 1998)
- Way-New Technopomposity -
The sensible, self-important technorealist manifesto tells Jon Katz the Net menace is
losing its sting. [Wired News] (April 1, 1998)
- Robots from Rubbish -
BEAMers create small autonomous robots which rely on discarded analog materials instead of
expensive, power-hungry computer brains. The lean machines can display surprisingly smart
behavior - and killer survival instincts. [Wired News] (March 30, 1998)
- Our Contentious Country, Part
II - ABC may have an antidote to the "argument culture" poisoning the media,
says Jon Katz. [Wired News] (March 25, 1998)
- Technorealism: Beyond the Hype
- A more realistic appraisal of the technology that fills our lives will open a fertile
middle ground between techno-utopianism and neo-Luddism. [Wired News] (March 24,
1998)
- Stone-Age Hardware Hackers
- Enthusiasts preserve traditional technology, using tools made of rock and bone.
Cutting-edge materials, 2.5 million years ago. [Wired News] (March 23, 1998)
- Our Contentious Country -
Argument Culture aptly describes our obsession with confrontation, says Jon Katz. [Wired
News] (March 20, 1998)
- See Ally Flail - Insecure,
narcissistic, boy-crazy Ally McBeal is a post-feminist icon, says Jon Katz. [Wired News] (March
17, 1998)
- Soul Salvation - In a
fantasy Meet the Press, Jon Katz asks Washington attack journalists what is going through
their sex-scandal-addled brains. [Wired News] (March 11, 1998)
- Slate's Ready to Charge -
Slate's getting ready to charge, and Jon Katz says webheads ought to be ready to pay for
good media by now. [Wired News] (March 3, 1998)
- The Plastic Fantastics -
Aficionados of 1960s design aren't the hippies you might think. These fans are straight-up
students of the era who are serious collectors, to boot. [Wired News] (February 25,
1998)
- The Death of the Media Mogul
- Buh-bye, Rupert! So long, Bill. Jon Katz says media moguls' time has come and gone. The
future is ours, not theirs. [Wired News] (February 18, 1998)
- The Issues Behind Intern-Gate
- Did readers criticize Jon Katz's dismissal of the Lewinsky scandal as irrelevant? You
bet your internship application. [Wired News] (February 13, 1998)
- Fun with Dead People - All
sorts of businesses - from mainstream mags to the pushers of kitsch commemoratives - rake
in the bucks when celebrities die. Alongside the memory-mongers, though, a blackly
humorous subculture thrives: Dead pools. [Wired News] (February 12, 1998)
- If I Only Had A Brain -
Natrificial's The Brain is not just a US$49.95 bookmark manager, it's also a case study in
choosing the right metaphor. [Wired News] (February 10, 1998)
- Cooking Up Media Madness -
DC press and the libidinous president, plus sleazy politicians: A pretty smelly brew, says
Katz. But there is an antidote. [Wired News] (February 5, 1998)
- Believe It or Not - People
who believe that information is corrupt turn out to be about half-right; the corruption is
real, but it's a little closer to home than we might wish to understand. [Wired News] (February
4, 1998)
- Who's in Charge Around Here?
Part II - Should the president of the Net be digerati, geek author, statesperson, or -
you? [Wired News] (February 4, 1998)
- Let's Go Thrifting - In
this installment of Fringe, we examine the people who've perfected the art of "buying
for the experience of buying" for pennies on the dollar. [Wired News] (January
29, 1998)
- The Net vs. the Presidency
- When the Internet and other forces have stripped the public figure's aura of authority,
can we find something worthy of saving in our Presidents? [Wired News] (January 29,
1998)
- Who's in Charge Around Here?
- If the Net had its own president, we'd have a real voice - and maybe get something done
once in a while. [Wired News] (January 29, 1998)
- DIY Veggie Libel - After
considering how to support Oprah in her mad-cow fight for free speech, Jon Katz scapegoats
the innocent yam. [Wired News] (January 27, 1998)
- Past Out - The high cost of
reliving the news. [Wired News] (January 27, 1998)
- It's a Drudge World, After All
- Matt Drudge was the first to make public the Monica Lewinsky case. So what? It turns out
he is the embodiment of a frantic, redundantly networked world in which everyone knows
everything at once - even things that aren't true. [Wired News] (January 23, 1998)
- Shameless Dread - Kicking
and Screaming into the millennium. [Wired News] (January 20, 1998)
- Media Rant Movie Marathon, Part
I - Jefferson may not have found himself surprised at a culture that yawns at news of
an imminently balanced budget but knows exactly when Titanic and Wag the Dog are
premiering. [Wired News] (January 16, 1998)
- Right to Kill - Ted
Kaczynski's command performance. [Wired News] (January 13, 1998)
- Human Guinea Pigs - Now
that a network of zine readers is trading advice and swapping stories, probed persons no
longer have to take it on faith that research facilities are respectable and comfortable.
[Wired News] (January 9, 1998)
- Another Woman, Another Book
- Sign Off is having an afterlife that's far more interesting than its life ever was.
[Wired News] (January 8, 1998)
- Bondage - Moguls are now
discussing the possibility of Bond taking a page out of the heralded Alien series and
treating each film as an opportunity for an auteur to make his mark. [Wired News] (January
8, 1998)
- The Nth Degree - The worst
word of an era [Wired News] (January 5, 1998)
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