one.point.zero - Colin O'Brien's weblog

Mob (a near-future science fiction story)

The Rise and Fall of the earliest "dot-com". I feel old, I actually remember ClariNet.
Younger people revealing their private lives on the Internet, the biggest generation gap since the early days of rock and roll?

You hold them down, I'll remove their wallets

UK ISPs in bed with the Music biz
The web time forgot. How Paul Otlet, a Belgian, envisioned a steampunk ancestor of today's hypertext.

Supporting a rock band used to be an act of rebellion. In the face of today's mounting music piracy, it has become an act of conscience.

Radiohead generation believes music is free
Barbarians at Gate 8. How cheap flights and ubiquitous communication have changed national identities.
Could global warming kill the Internet? Yup.