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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

29 December 2001 > transaction costs > digital libraries > peer-to-peer computing > organized irrationality > scientism

13 December 2001 > how-to's > the true nature of computer science > the history of institutional analysis of computing > the relation between network culture and public culture

7 October 2001 > wireless design > transparency > the post-Napster universe > the concept of an institution

30 January 2001 > mostly follow-ups

14 January 2001 > the democratic Internet > the new culture of design > premature dot-com business plans > things that piss me off

30 December 2000 > new computer users > artificial intelligence > memes and attentional economics

26 December 2000 > site-specific information services > the year 2000

21 December 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

29 October 2000 > presidential politics > hacker jargon > reality TV

17 October 2000 > Y2K > new conservative rhetoric > the wired university > the limits of automation

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

3 September 2000 > insanity

16 August 2000 > overlapping knowledge > the Internet and democracy > B2B hype > teaching and research

8 August 2000 > public reason > the fate of place in a wireless culture > cyber skepticism

31 July 2000 > the history of unreason > Internet predictions

27 July 2000 > irrationality > opaque institutions > futurology > journalese > hatred of college professors

12 July 2000 > critical thinking > Microsoft's trust issues > eBay > 14th century philosophy

12 June 2000 > the Microsoft decision > educational technology

13 May 2000 > Microsoft's irresponsibility > design spaces > eBay > systems analysis courses > the new jargon

5 May 2000 > Microsoft viruses > economic history > Luddism

30 April 2000 > software patents > the culture of deference > the growing irrationality of American politics

7 April 2000 > mind control > privacy regulation > Internet privacy panics > cheap pens > Moore's Law > the glorious future of communism

27 February 2000 > conservatism > the Microsoft trial > Web standards > digital convergence > public relations > online newspapers > the academic job market

22 February 2000 > software licenses > books about public relations > books about information technology in higher education

7 February 2000 > John McCain > computer science > online publishing > state and market

26 January 2000 > 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

26 December 1999 > scholarly publishing > propaganda > community networks > interactive design > transaction costs > Privacy Chernobyl

21 December 1999 > academic jargon > Internet (de)centralization > professionally twisted language

8 November 1999 > distance education > cheap pens > industrial design > conservatism

23 October 1999 > the wired university > Kosovo > Internet jargon > conservatism

19 October 1999 > educational technology > libertarianism > cheap pens > collective cognition > public relations > globalization > organizational computing > modern European history

13 August 1999 > cultural learning about the Internet > liars and thieves > the economics of bad software > some varieties of nonsense

4 July 1999 > social science and computer science > the return of absolutism

16 June 1999 > social theory > industrial design > online protests > Al Gore > cheap pens > libertarians

21 April 1999 26 March 1999 > Microsoft remedies > conservative rhetoric

14 March 1999 > cheap pens > industrial design > open-source software > online abuse and boundaries

25 February 1999 > the far right > Amazon.com > Microsoft's monopoly > anthropology

15 February 1999 > eBay > Amazon.com > justifying IT investments > Computerization and Controversy > Painting and Experience in Fifteenth Century Italy

18 January 1999 > running the list > cyber hype > Amazon.com > the impeachment mess > personal computers > Harvey Sacks > overrated movies

9 January 1999 > Internet writing > the impeachment mess

16 December 1998 > information warfare > eating bugs

15 December 1998 > distance education > cyberspace > trust in e-commerce > economics of Y2K > new technologies and the cultural learning curve > cheap pens

24 November 1998 > legal threats > information design > new media business plans > technical language > teaching people how to write > intellectual property > what we notice

15 November 1998 > 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

4 November 1998 > the 12th century > millennialism > history of philosophy > institutional change

12 August 1998 > UCLA Department of Information Studies > disintermediation > the new racism

6 August 1998 > running the list > law and economics

8 March 1998 > network architecture > spam wars > standards course > open-source software > NY Times Circuits section > cheap pens

9 February 1998 > cheap pens

27 January 1998 > cheap pens > Brazilian Internet > books on religious conservatism

24 November 1997 > cheap pens > Internet public goods > standardization > Bruno Latour > information law

20 November 1997 > spam > cheap pens > William Blake

1 November 1997 > privacy book > Nihilism Before Nietzsche > The Religion of Technology > path-dependent contracting

17 June 1997 > 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

21 May 1997 > Internet regulation > celebrity e-mail addresses > Microsoft > spam > Internet reporting > high-technology business plans > recommended books and records > the economics of Internet congestion

26 March 1997 > "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

8 February 1997 > technology and jobs > path dependence > technology versus language > copyright permissions > the San Jose Mercury-News' CIA/crack articles again > religion and authoritarian culture

28 January 1997 > 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

3 December 1996 > 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

8 November 1996 > network computers > authoritarian culture > the Internet as an engine of monopoly > why so few lists like RRE exist

23 October 1996 > 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