Honesty…let us work on it with all our malice and love.
—Nietzsche
Articles, weblogs, and related pieces by Andy Oram:
A collection of the articles I have written since 2004 about web pages, forums, and other media used by users of technology to educate each other.
A comprehensive survey of health information technologies, linking together such trends as devices and sensors, data sharing, coordinated care, electronic records, and patient empowerment with a view to showing the difficulties that need to be overcome for effective health reform.
Some of my most in-depth research, published by three law journals and widely cited (February 2000).
Advice on the deployment of free software in government agencies, backed up with some history in the state of Massachusetts that I closely followed.
A pair of articles exploring the technical and policy implications of the technologies that led to a crystalization of new concepts under the term Peer to Peer (May 12, 2000).
A useful, widely circulated summary of issues in telephony and communications of interest to Internet users and professionals (January 14, 2000).
A compressed but extensive list of fundamental problems and challenges facing efforts at making government more transparent and fostering citizen participation (originally posted March 1, 2009).
An overview of current trends in online identity, offering various contexts and philosophical models for defining and judging identity. (June 29, 2006).
A summary of the legal, business, and technological state of reputation, identity, and privacy (December 16, 2007).
A proposal for bringing together two trends commonly seen as contradictory—cloud computing and free software—with a goal of bringing out the potential of both (a series of five postings starting December 13, 2010).
A speculative essay on new media emerging in the early 21st century, and their effect on society (October 8, 2006, later revised in light of public comments).
An examination of identity and privacy on the Internet in the light of leading writings in the field of identity (a series of eight postings starting December 17, 2009).
A short story containing an important literary message about free speech as well as a review of case law in the area (Web Review, June 29 and July 6, 2001).
A two-part article explaining the underlying needs shared by a range of modern applications, including Web Services, wireless networks, and instant messaging (April 7 and 14, 2004).
Mostly fun, but also inspirational and cautionary (December 17, 1999; reprinted December 22, 2000).
A broad critique of the interaction between regulation and technology, widely circulated (November 30, 1999).
Most of the articles were originally published in one of the following forums:
Various blogs run by my company O’Reilly Media, for which I used to write a monthly column.
American Reporter, an independent online newspaper for which I wrote a weekly column for two years.
Web Review, an online magazine about developments in Web design and administration, where my Platform Independent column ran for almost three years.
Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility, for which I have written several position papers.
Finally, I have compiled a bibliography of my other articles on technical writing and training, most of which are not available electronically.