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I wrote the Tech BEAT column for the San Francisco Chronicle’s website, SFgate.com, from August 1998 until December 2002. During that time I was fortunate to work with SFgate.com’s incredibly smart editor, Amy Moon. Amy’s keen insights and suggestions often helped me sharpen my ideas and arguments. I will always be grateful for her skillful touch.

My wonderful wife, the award-winning Bay Area journalist Loren Stein, also deserves mention here and my gratitude — not only for marrying me — but also for her diligent editing, wise feedback, great suggestions and high expectations. Both Amy and Loren made important behind-the-scenes contributions to my SFgate.com essays. Words cannot express my gratitude.

1998
1999
2000
2001
2002

03 August, 1998
The Open Source Revolution Or: Mr. Gates, Meet Mr. Torvalds
31 August, 1998
Tear Down The Walls College in the Digital Age
23 September, 1998
New Age Voting How Technology Might Revitalize Democracy
08 October, 1998
Why It’s Not Clicking For Asia More Economic Turmoil in the Far East?
08 October, 1998
Closing the Digital Divide Is the dream of racial equality stuck in an infinite loop?
10 November, 1998
Poof! Instant LAN (You’re already wired)
23 November, 1998
Free Money Here! Online help for finding venture capital — which you may not want to use
07 December, 1998
The Socket Wars How Intel is giving R&D a bad name
22 December, 1998
Time for a Silver Bullet How To Make Tech Companies Do The Right Thing

04 January, 1999
Net Unemployment Will the Internet Put You Out of Work?
18 January, 1999
Speed Kills How PacBell’s New DSL Service Trips Up the Competition
01 February, 1999
Online Government Bringing the Public Sector up to Speed
16 February, 1999
Biotech Rules Part I: Anyone Wanna Buy a Cure for Cancer?
02 March, 1999
Biotech Rules Part II: Science, Serendipity, and The Web
15 March, 1999
Power To The People The return of cold fusion
29 March, 1999
Killing the Rainmakers The dying art of high-tech public relations
12 April, 1999
Love Bytes Will the Net flatten Maslow’s pyramid?
28 April, 1999
Oh Holy Net Does the Hand of God Know HTML?
17 May, 1999
The War Against Cold Fusion What’s really behind it?
25 May, 1999
Must See TV Get paid to watch
09 June, 1999
Tech Stocks Has the boom gone bust?
22 June, 1999
We’re Flying Blind Time for New Economic Metrics
06 July, 1999
Wanna Make a Bet? How the ‘Net can improve your odds
20 July, 1999
Killing Uncle Sam The taxman meets his match online
04 August, 1999
Running Lame Most presidential candidates stumble online
17 August, 1999
Beta This Cleaning up the software industry’s bug-infested nest
31 August, 1999
Masters of Our Domain RealNames means just what the name says
15 September, 1999
The Kids Are Not Alright Why Johnny can’t compute
30 September, 1999
The Great Tech Showdown I’m rooting for Bill Gates
14 October, 1999
Open Sesame How Collab.net takes open-source to the next level
28 October, 1999
Big Idiot on Campus UC should broadcast class lectures online
11 November, 1999
Going Once, Going Twice, Gone! eBay is shooting itself in the foot
24 November, 1999
Readers’ Beat SF Gate column readers respond
08 December, 1999
Click Here To Buy Online shopping tips from someone who hates to shop
23 December, 1999
Our Wacky Patent System And its perilous, toothless reform

05 January, 2000
Open Source TV Broadcasters should jump on the open source bandwagon, pronto
23 February, 2000
Deposit This On the Internet, your bank is not your friend
17 March, 2000
Patently False Time for Bezos to get serious
06 April, 2000
Napster How free music will change the planet
10 May, 2000
Highway Robbery New electronic toll collection system won’t fix traffic woes
26 May, 2000
Digital Food Online Groceries Set Stage for Long-Awaited Revolution in the Aisles
07 June, 2000
Talking Computers Microsoft’s Long-Range Plan to Thwart the Feds
28 June, 2000
Who Wants to be a Millionaire? Coming Up With the Next Big Thing
31 July, 2000
Little Man, Big Mind New Media Pioneer Gary Brickman’s Remarkable Life
31 August, 2000
Fast and Easy New Browserless Apps Allow One-Click Searching
21 September, 2000
Burn Your Cubicle Virtual Teams Are the Future of Work
18 October, 2000
Faster Than Light Travel Will We Ever Travel to the Stars?
21 November, 2000
Technical Correction “The Numbers Guy” And Wall Street
21 December, 2000
Machine Error The Case for Paper Ballots

25 January, 2001
Where’s The Competition? How California’s Leaders Helped Create the Energy Crisis
27 February, 2001
ReplayTV vs. TiVo TiVo vs. ReplayTV
13 March, 2001
Buying The Grid Gov. Davis’ Plan Puts Taxpayers on the Wrong Side of Future Technologies
04 April, 2001
Timing The Tech Stock Recovery Investors Should Trust Themselves, Not The Analysts
19 April, 2001
Desktop Linux Eazel Inc. Could Change the World Or Go Broke Trying
10 May, 2001
Free Higher Education MIT’s OpenCourseWare Plan Fires the First Real Shot
05 June, 2001
Cisco’s Slide Tech Bellwether Must Find A New Path To Success
21 June, 2001
The Next Frontier The Tech Sector Needs A Nanotechnology Target
10 July, 2001
The New Napster The Record Industry Has Met its Match
31 July, 2001
Slap the PUC It May Be the Last Chance to Protect Independent ISPs From Extinction
23 August, 2001
Kick ‘Em When They’re Down Silicon Valley’s Usual CEO Excuses Don’t Tell the Real Story
18 September, 2001
No Silver Bullets Giving Up Privacy for Security Will Leave Us With Neither
04 October, 2001
Energy Independence Now We Need A New Energy Revolution
23 October, 2001
War Boom More Pentagon spending could actually hurt Silicon Valley
19 November, 2001
The End Of Hewlett-Packard As We Knew It? Revered company is between a rock and a hard place
06 December, 2001
The “Last Mile” Problem ADCOs could finally bust open the local phone market
17 December, 2001
The Westly Factor Why a usually obscure state election might matter most for tech firms
31 December, 2001
Playing The Biotech Boom Picking biotech stocks is not a game for novices

17 January, 2002
Political Weapons The missile defense shield will help neutralize the tech sector
28 January, 2002
Search Me Doom ahead for search engines that charge listing fees
11 February, 2002
All Hail Creative Commons Stanford professor and author Lawrence Lessig plans a legal insurrection
25 February, 2002
Vexing Options Accounting scandal fallout could mean positive changes for workers and investors
25 March, 2002
Cold Fusion Rides Again Science magazine publishes more evidence of tabletop nuclear reactions
11 April, 2002
Sharing The Airwaves Spread spectrum technology could bring a new dawn for broadcasting
22 April, 2002
Shooting Blanks Growing digital rights movement needs to put some political heads on stakes — fast
09 May, 2002
Hollywood’s Way Out New distribution platform is solution for copyright theft
22 May, 2002
Ocean Rescue Planktos Foundation hopes to reduce global warming by fertilizing the seas
06 June, 2002
Nanotechnology’s First Fruits Products nearing market promise to lead the budding industry from hype to reality
20 June, 2002
Fuel Cell Hold-up Government’s go-slow approach promises to keep the technology on the shelf
03 July, 2002
Taxing Workers Cutting capital gains taxes could hurt Silicon Valley in the long run
18 July, 2002
The Disintermediation Blues On the sad state of online car- and mortgage-buying services
30 July, 2002
Not a Moment Too Soon Digiportal’s innovative challenge response ChoiceMail program means the end of spam
15 August, 2002
Take The Medicine By not expensing stock options now, tech firms are just prolonging the pain
29 August, 2002
Open-Source Government Free-software guru Bruce Perens has a new information-technology solution
12 September, 2002
Berman-Coble Goes Too Far Legalizing hacking of P2P networks hurts start-ups, not thieves
26 September, 2002
Free Mickey Stanford Law Professor seeks to overturn the Sonny Bono Copyright Extension Act
09 October, 2002
Silicon Valley Fights Back Hollywood has a worthy adversary in South Bay Congresswoman Zoe Lofgren
24 October, 2002
Picture This Government Web sites are for the people not incumbent office-holders
07 November, 2002
Tech Futures Where workers and investors will find opportunities in the years ahead

03 August, 1998
The Open Source Revolution Or: Mr. Gates, Meet Mr. Torvalds
31 August, 1998
Tear Down The Walls College in the Digital Age
23 September, 1998
New Age Voting How Technology Might Revitalize Democracy
08 October, 1998
Why It’s Not Clicking For Asia More Economic Turmoil in the Far East?
08 October, 1998
Closing the Digital Divide Is the dream of racial equality stuck in an infinite loop?
10 November, 1998
Poof! Instant LAN (You’re already wired)
23 November, 1998
Free Money Here! Online help for finding venture capital — which you may not want to use
07 December, 1998
The Socket Wars How Intel is giving R&D a bad name
22 December, 1998
Time for a Silver Bullet How To Make Tech Companies Do The Right Thing

04 January, 1999
Net Unemployment Will the Internet Put You Out of Work?
18 January, 1999
Speed Kills How PacBell’s New DSL Service Trips Up the Competition
01 February, 1999
Online Government Bringing the Public Sector up to Speed
16 February, 1999
Biotech Rules Part I: Anyone Wanna Buy a Cure for Cancer?
02 March, 1999
Biotech Rules Part II: Science, Serendipity, and The Web
15 March, 1999
Power To The People The return of cold fusion
29 March, 1999
Killing the Rainmakers The dying art of high-tech public relations
12 April, 1999
Love Bytes Will the Net flatten Maslow’s pyramid?
28 April, 1999
Oh Holy Net Does the Hand of God Know HTML?
17 May, 1999
The War Against Cold Fusion What’s really behind it?
25 May, 1999
Must See TV Get paid to watch
09 June, 1999
Tech Stocks Has the boom gone bust?
22 June, 1999
We’re Flying Blind Time for New Economic Metrics
06 July, 1999
Wanna Make a Bet? How the ‘Net can improve your odds
20 July, 1999
Killing Uncle Sam The taxman meets his match online
04 August, 1999
Running Lame Most presidential candidates stumble online
17 August, 1999
Beta This Cleaning up the software industry’s bug-infested nest
31 August, 1999
Masters of Our Domain RealNames means just what the name says
15 September, 1999
The Kids Are Not Alright Why Johnny can’t compute
30 September, 1999
The Great Tech Showdown I’m rooting for Bill Gates
14 October, 1999
Open Sesame How Collab.net takes open-source to the next level
28 October, 1999
Big Idiot on Campus UC should broadcast class lectures online
11 November, 1999
Going Once, Going Twice, Gone! eBay is shooting itself in the foot
24 November, 1999
Readers’ Beat SF Gate column readers respond
08 December, 1999
Click Here To Buy Online shopping tips from someone who hates to shop
23 December, 1999
Our Wacky Patent System And its perilous, toothless reform

05 January, 2000
Open Source TV Broadcasters should jump on the open source bandwagon, pronto
23 February, 2000
Deposit This On the Internet, your bank is not your friend
17 March, 2000
Patently False Time for Bezos to get serious
06 April, 2000
Napster How free music will change the planet
10 May, 2000
Highway Robbery New electronic toll collection system won’t fix traffic woes
26 May, 2000
Digital Food Online Groceries Set Stage for Long-Awaited Revolution in the Aisles
07 June, 2000
Talking Computers Microsoft’s Long-Range Plan to Thwart the Feds
28 June, 2000
Who Wants to be a Millionaire? Coming Up With the Next Big Thing
31 July, 2000
Little Man, Big Mind New Media Pioneer Gary Brickman’s Remarkable Life
31 August, 2000
Fast and Easy New Browserless Apps Allow One-Click Searching
21 September, 2000
Burn Your Cubicle Virtual Teams Are the Future of Work
18 October, 2000
Faster Than Light Travel Will We Ever Travel to the Stars?
21 November, 2000
Technical Correction “The Numbers Guy” And Wall Street
21 December, 2000
Machine Error The Case for Paper Ballots

25 January, 2001
Where’s The Competition? How California’s Leaders Helped Create the Energy Crisis
27 February, 2001
ReplayTV vs. TiVo TiVo vs. ReplayTV
13 March, 2001
Buying The Grid Gov. Davis’ Plan Puts Taxpayers on the Wrong Side of Future Technologies
04 April, 2001
Timing The Tech Stock Recovery Investors Should Trust Themselves, Not The Analysts
19 April, 2001
Desktop Linux Eazel Inc. Could Change the World Or Go Broke Trying
10 May, 2001
Free Higher Education MIT’s OpenCourseWare Plan Fires the First Real Shot
05 June, 2001
Cisco’s Slide Tech Bellwether Must Find A New Path To Success
21 June, 2001
The Next Frontier The Tech Sector Needs A Nanotechnology Target
10 July, 2001
The New Napster The Record Industry Has Met its Match
31 July, 2001
Slap the PUC It May Be the Last Chance to Protect Independent ISPs From Extinction
23 August, 2001
Kick ‘Em When They’re Down Silicon Valley’s Usual CEO Excuses Don’t Tell the Real Story
18 September, 2001
No Silver Bullets Giving Up Privacy for Security Will Leave Us With Neither
04 October, 2001
Energy Independence Now We Need A New Energy Revolution
23 October, 2001
War Boom More Pentagon spending could actually hurt Silicon Valley
19 November, 2001
The End Of Hewlett-Packard As We Knew It? Revered company is between a rock and a hard place
06 December, 2001
The “Last Mile” Problem ADCOs could finally bust open the local phone market
17 December, 2001
The Westly Factor Why a usually obscure state election might matter most for tech firms
31 December, 2001
Playing The Biotech Boom Picking biotech stocks is not a game for novices

17 January, 2002
Political Weapons The missile defense shield will help neutralize the tech sector
28 January, 2002
Search Me Doom ahead for search engines that charge listing fees
11 February, 2002
All Hail Creative Commons Stanford professor and author Lawrence Lessig plans a legal insurrection
25 February, 2002
Vexing Options Accounting scandal fallout could mean positive changes for workers and investors
25 March, 2002
Cold Fusion Rides Again Science magazine publishes more evidence of tabletop nuclear reactions
11 April, 2002
Sharing The Airwaves Spread spectrum technology could bring a new dawn for broadcasting
22 April, 2002
Shooting Blanks Growing digital rights movement needs to put some political heads on stakes — fast
09 May, 2002
Hollywood’s Way Out New distribution platform is solution for copyright theft
22 May, 2002
Ocean Rescue Planktos Foundation hopes to reduce global warming by fertilizing the seas
06 June, 2002
Nanotechnology’s First Fruits Products nearing market promise to lead the budding industry from hype to reality
20 June, 2002
Fuel Cell Hold-up Government’s go-slow approach promises to keep the technology on the shelf
03 July, 2002
Taxing Workers Cutting capital gains taxes could hurt Silicon Valley in the long run
18 July, 2002
The Disintermediation Blues On the sad state of online car- and mortgage-buying services
30 July, 2002
Not a Moment Too Soon Digiportal’s innovative challenge response ChoiceMail program means the end of spam
15 August, 2002
Take The Medicine By not expensing stock options now, tech firms are just prolonging the pain
29 August, 2002
Open-Source Government Free-software guru Bruce Perens has a new information-technology solution
12 September, 2002
Berman-Coble Goes Too Far Legalizing hacking of P2P networks hurts start-ups, not thieves
26 September, 2002
Free Mickey Stanford Law Professor seeks to overturn the Sonny Bono Copyright Extension Act
09 October, 2002
Silicon Valley Fights Back Hollywood has a worthy adversary in South Bay Congresswoman Zoe Lofgren
24 October, 2002
Picture This Government Web sites are for the people not incumbent office-holders
07 November, 2002
Tech Futures Where workers and investors will find opportunities in the years ahead