Matthew A. Gline
So Long, and Thanks for the Bits
For two-and-a-half years, I’ve imposed myself on your editorial page with oft-inane, always obscure commentary about the ways technology has
Net Working
One thing that will never be said about Harvard is that the students here don’t have diverse interests. You may
Time to Reflect
I want to start this column with a shout-out to a small and oft-ignored subset of my readers. I don’t
Standard Error
The Internet as we know it is built around a set of social conventions. I don’t mean social conventions of
CampusTrap?
About three weeks ago, a new player quietly showed up on the battlefield of websites vying for Harvard attention spans.
Bits of History
In 1951, the U.S. Federal Civil Defense Administration released an educational film called “Duck and Cover.” It featured an animated
Net Stupidity
Avid followers of online idiocy, who have spent the last few years of their lives migrating from hotornot.com to Homestar
Blog Schmog
Early this December, during the fast-paced, anything goes UC election season, Harvard finally got a taste of something mainstream media
e-Verb-erating
We describe our day-to-day lives in terms that would have been rather foreign to our forebears of 10 or 20
Net Effects
Harvard is no stranger to controversy. Our President alone gets more press coverage than most earthquakes, and a handful of
bye2hub
The future for peer-to-peer file sharing services is, lately, looking a bit bleak. The page for StreamCast Networks’ Morpheus has
The Digital Curtain
We’re halfway through first semester and I think it’s reasonably safe to say that the vast majority of Harvard undergraduates
Isis E-mail Archive Held Private Thoughts, Not News
To the editors: I am the president of the Harvard Computer Society, but it is as a student like any
Virtually Harvard
Only a very small handful of Harvard undergraduates—those whose life paths were complicated enough to necessitate a five-year school vacation—remember
iPod therefore iTunes
Just about everyone who owns any kind of digital portable music player owns an iPod. Variants of the Apple device
