Backfile
This isn't the blog archive, use the calendar navigator for that.What you'll find here are some older writings that I may reference from the blog on occasion, or that folks have asked me to make available online.
- The Watershed of the 21st Century - 9/19/01
- Written a week after the WTC attack, both as a catharsis and a first step into analyzing a changed world. It's held up fairly well so far.
- Electronic Commmerce + Virtual Community = Agora - 12/5/1996
- The first of a series of columns written for Howard Rheingold's Electric Minds sites. Gets the direction generally right and the pace of change very wrong.
- Transaction Costs and Internet Markets - 1/8/1997
- Electric Minds column #2. Coase's transaction costs theory applied to Internet markets and software standards, circa 1997.
- Of Platform Wars, Monopoly, and Microsoft - 1/22/1997
- Electric Minds column #3. Increasing returns, transaction costs, and the nature of platforms.
- How to Make Platform War - 3/5/1997
- Electric Minds #4. Strategy and tactics for the would-be platform warrior.
- Platform Wars: The Clone Wars - 4/16/1997
- Electric Minds #5. Combat history from CP/M to Windows.
- Platform Wars: Net Wars 1993-1997 (4/30/1997)
- Electric Minds #6. Just what it says - MSFT vs. NSCP, et. al.
- Why Multimedia Publishing is a Crock - Winter, 1991
- A speculative article written for Whole Earth Review in late 1991. Gets some thing about the coming Internet right, and some hilariously wrong.