Interested in Jeff Bezos’ desk? Open your wallet. (At least it’s for a good cause.)


Salon has acquired the Well. I’m too floored to provide any opinions on this just yet.


My long-term online acquaintance Jamais Cascio locates the root of the problem that enabled the Melissa virus to flourish in a story in Salon today.


I wanted to read Jakob Nielsen’s comments on the Salon redesign, and while I was at his site, I was completely floored by his unabashed self praise. The vaunted usability master could easily save readers a lot of time by leaving out all the claptrap about how every industry trend proves him to be right and just putting a large headline across the top of the page that says, “I consider myself to be very smart.”