Notes and recommendations.

Ever since I ceased publication of The Network Observer in the summer of 1996, I have been using the Red Rock Eater News Service to send out occasional batches of informal "notes and recommendations". Here I've gathered links to these messages in the Web-based RRE archives that are kindly maintained by Kee Hinckley <nazgul@somewhere.com> at Somewhere.Com. I've also tried to summarize the topics they cover. Most of them end with lists of useful URL's that RRE subscribers have sent me.

27 January 2002

Enron
distributed objects
technology-driven change
the diversity of knowledge

transaction costs
digital libraries
peer-to-peer computing
organized irrationality
scientism

how-to's
the true nature of computer science
the history of institutional analysis of computing
the relation between network culture and public culture

wireless design
transparency
the post-Napster universe
the concept of an institution

mostly follow-ups

the democratic Internet
the new culture of design
premature dot-com business plans
things that piss me off

new computer users
artificial intelligence
memes and attentional economics

site-specific information services
the year 2000

spam
content-filtered e-mail
the mind/body divide in computing
the art of public design
the hazards of organizational learning
the amplification model
industrial design
computer security
cheap pens

presidential politics
hacker jargon
reality TV

Y2K
new conservative rhetoric
the wired university
the limits of automation

the year 2000
Internet stock bubble
liberals and conservatives
the always-on world
cheap pens

insanity

overlapping knowledge
the Internet and democracy
B2B hype
teaching and research

public reason
the fate of place in a wireless culture
cyber skepticism

the history of unreason
Internet predictions

irrationality
opaque institutions
futurology
journalese
hatred of college professors

critical thinking
Microsoft's trust issues
eBay
14th century philosophy

the Microsoft decision
educational technology

Microsoft's irresponsibility
design spaces
eBay
systems analysis courses
the new jargon

Microsoft viruses
economic history
Luddism

software patents
the culture of deference
the growing irrationality of American politics

mind control
privacy regulation
Internet privacy panics
cheap pens
Moore's Law
the glorious future of communism

conservatism
the Microsoft trial
Web standards
digital convergence
public relations
online newspapers
the academic job market

software licenses
books about public relations
books about information technology in higher education

John McCain
computer science
online publishing
state and market

books about the Internet and democracy
millennial enthusiasms
the economics of broadband
the Internet and career preparation
Hayek's history of scientism
the fate of diversity

scholarly publishing
propaganda
community networks
interactive design
transaction costs
Privacy Chernobyl

academic jargon
Internet (de)centralization
professionally twisted language

distance education
cheap pens
industrial design
conservatism

the wired university
Kosovo
Internet jargon
conservatism

educational technology
libertarianism
cheap pens
collective cognition
public relations
globalization
organizational computing
modern European history

cultural learning about the Internet
liars and thieves
the economics of bad software
some varieties of nonsense

social science and computer science
the return of absolutism

social theory
industrial design
online protests
Al Gore
cheap pens
libertarians

Microsoft remedies
conservative rhetoric

cheap pens
industrial design
open-source software
online abuse and boundaries

the far right
Amazon.com
Microsoft's monopoly
anthropology

eBay
Amazon.com
justifying IT investments
Computerization and Controversy
Painting and Experience in Fifteenth Century Italy

running the list
cyber hype
Amazon.com
the impeachment mess
personal computers
Harvey Sacks
overrated movies

Internet writing
the impeachment mess

information warfare
eating bugs

distance education
cyberspace
trust in e-commerce
economics of Y2K
new technologies and the cultural learning curve
cheap pens

legal threats
information design
new media business plans
technical language
teaching people how to write
intellectual property
what we notice

the semiotics of geometry
things that are good
this that piss me off
fear of computers
millennialist technology
virtual reality
conservative polemics
cheap pens
culture and morality

the 12th century
millennialism
history of philosophy
institutional change

UCLA Department of Information Studies
disintermediation
the new racism

running the list
law and economics

network architecture
spam wars
standards course
open-source software
NY Times Circuits section
cheap pens

cheap pens

cheap pens
Brazilian Internet
books on religious conservatism

cheap pens
Internet public goods
standardization
Bruno Latour
information law

spam
cheap pens
William Blake

privacy book
Nihilism Before Nietzsche
The Religion of Technology
path-dependent contracting

privacy and the client-server model
reinventing graduate school
spam
information and organization
the economics of Internet congestion
Microsoft
the problem with the personal computer
corrections
sociology of AI
Deep Blue's victory over Garry Kasparov
software bloat and technological lock-in

Internet regulation
celebrity e-mail addresses
Microsoft
spam
Internet reporting
high-technology business plans
recommended books and records
the economics of Internet congestion

"push" technology
spam
child abuse
the publishing industry
video games and the military
surveillance of online political activity
the media and reality
morbid humor
Senate Intelligence report

technology and jobs
path dependence
technology versus language
copyright permissions
the San Jose Mercury-News' CIA/crack articles again
religion and authoritarian culture

Eudora's "redirect" command
command-and-control computing
Descartes scholarship
information technology and globalization
Christian rock
Internet industry fads
lessons of the civil rights movement
conservative and liberal propaganda
beating up on Microsoft
African-American English

comments on my students' projects
global capital markets
control of the net through standards
book advertisements on RRE
Wired magazine
rebuttals to RRE messages
the marketplace of ideas and PR
explaining changes in academic fashion
the fallacy of revealed preferences

network computers
authoritarian culture
the Internet as an engine of monopoly
why so few lists like RRE exist

spam
(in)accurate information on the net
the San Jose Mercury-News' CIA/crack articles
why RRE isn't commercial
information as a public good