Front Page Profits Bloomberg Personal Finance, July/August
A new Internet site claims it can help you pick stocks that will move in response to headlines.

Initial Public Forecaster ,People, WIRED, AUG
When it comes to predicting the timing for the IPO window to reopen, Kathryn Gould is of two minds. "There's the rational view and the irrational," says the co-founder of Menlo Park-based Foundation Capital.

DNET Denied Angel Advisor, JAN 2001
Why wouldn't VCs back the Band of Angels' bet in this delivery dot.com?

VCs In Angel's Clothing, Angel Advisor (not published)
Savvy, Silicon Valley angel networks including the Band of Angels, Angel Forum and TENEX Medical Investors, each of which have poured millions of their own into early stage companies, are hoping to beat their well-heeled venture counterparts at their own game.

So many deals. So little time, (feature story) Industry Standard, June, 2000
The stock market dive has only heightened the dilemma that venture capitalists face: Make more investments? Or pay more attention to the ones you've got? Foundation Capital opts for quality time.

Run For Coverage (Feature story), The Industry Standard, DEC, 1999
ECoverage, a San Francisco-based startup, launched its auto insurance site in September with a print ad campaign. "Brick and Mortar Insurance Companies Will Attack Our Business Model Right Up Until the Time That They Adopt It," screamed one headline.

Do-It-Yourself Retirement Planning(Technology & Business), Scientific American, Oct, 1999
Consider British mathematician Alan Turing's test to see if a computer's responses could pass for as human. Now, apply it to investment advisors.

Retirement Plans Go Online (feature), The Industry Standard July, 1999
Investors have turned to the Internet for stock quotes, research, and other financial information. Just about the only thing these sites lack is personalized advice - the traditional stronghold of brokers and financial planners. Now all that's about to change. Internet entrepreneurs are bringing personal investment advice to the Web.

Jim Clark's Rich Pitch (Must Read), Wired 7.08, Aug 1999
"The nightmare begins at tax time," says Jim Clark, the 55-year old computer legend whose three start-upsÑSGI, Netscape, and HealtheonÑhave him juggling $2.5 billion in personal assets.

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Cracking the Data Genome WIRED, OCT
What does the math behind gene mapping have to do with increasing the throughput of data networks?

P2P a la Mode ,Infoporn, WIRED, SEP
As Napster filters most of its users, er, copyright abusers, out of the system, millions of file sharing fans are migrating to alternatives like Bearshare, and Napigator.

Getting The Word Out ,Newsweek Japan, 5SEP
Companies - especially companies with new ideas - face what often seems an insurmountable problem: potential customers and pundits just don't understand them.

What goes around ,Newsweek Japan, 5JUN
Obsolete computers are U.S. companies' nuclear waste. They don't want them, but in most states it's illegal, because of the lead, mercury and cadmium they contain, to throw them out.

Making Searches Pay ,Newsweek Japan, 29MAY
A few years ago, internet search engines were investors' darlings. Since then, most of them have been lost, and the survivors have become ad-llittered portals. The exception to the rule: Google, dreamed up by two 20-something PhD students three years ago and now the number-one search engine, conducting 100 million searches a day.

Consumers Talk back ,Newsweek Japan, 22MAY
U.S. companies, which have learned to rely on the Internet to make their pitch to consumers, are fast learning that it's also an ideal way for consumers to talk back both negatively and positively.

Morning-after Bonus ,Newsweek Japan, 22MAY
Don't go away mad, just go away. Employers, under pressure to cut costs, are adding a new twist to college recruiting: they're paying new hires not to start work.

Not Forcing The Issue , Business 2.0, MAY 15
Star Wars creator George Lucas would probably be the last one to disavow the power of the force. TheForce.Net that is.

Piggybacking on P2P ,WIRED, MAY
Eric Garland is convinced that thar's gold in the data that can be generated from file-sharing networks like Napster and Gnutella.

Inbox Overload ,Newsweek Japan, 17APR
How do you prevent your company from drowning in its own email? That's the question that Nathan Zeldes, a computing productivity manager at Intel's Jerusalem office asked in 1995 when it was clear that his company was suffering from a bad case of email overload.

Priced To Perfection , Business 2.0, FEB 26
Retailers turn to price optimizing software to improve their bottom line.

MP3 Meet MPAA (Must Read) WIRED, NOV
What do you get when you take a Napster, remove its legal woes, and add a business model projected to generate revenues just as fast as a viral, peer-to-peer network can multiply?

Right Now Is Not Too Soon, (cover story) Internet Retailer, OCT
Naysayers scoffed at FedEx's plan for overnight delivery. Can today's web-based same-day services also confound critics?

Battle of The Dot-Com Bulge, (Posts) Industry Standard, 4SEP
Online services for soldiers and the people who love them were one of the last uncontested theatres of engagement on the Web until several military dot-coms launched attacks this year.

Same-Day Everything, (Must Read) WIRED, SEP
Gregg Kidd wants to bring the benefits of instant online gratification to traditional retailers. "I call it the revenge of the brick & mortars," explains the founder and chairman of San Francisco-based DNet which is currently beta testing its nationwide, same day delivery service with select retailers.

You've Got Pepperoni, (Posts) Industry Standard, AUG
There's nothing a pizzeria worker hates more than asking a college kid over the phone: What do you want on your pizza? (page down at site)

The Longest Yard, WIRED, JUL
Suzy Brown is on point fielding questions from the three khaki-clad venture capitalists positioned around the 10-foot, blonde conference table. "We're trying to figure out if you're the Amazon.com of home delivery, or the Iridium," quips Mark Saul...

Notcoms Not Dotcoms, Internet Retailer, JUL
Bloomey's does it. So does Nordstrom's. Saks says they plan to do it later this summer. But you won't find them doing it at Filene's, Kohl's, or Proffitt's anytime soon.

Patents Impending (cover story) Internet Retailer, March
Judging from the recent spate of lawsuits, investors aren't the only ones cashing in on the Internet boom. Patent litigators are doing just fine, thank you. Just ask their e-tailing clients.

CyberSource: Been There. Detected That, Internet Retailer, March
In the beginning, there was fraud. And Bill McKiernan, founder and CEO of CyberSource, then called Software.net, detected the fraud, and said it was no good.

The Lewis and Clark Expedition , Wired 7.11 November
In his just-published book, The New New Thing (W.W. Norton& Co.), author Michael Lewis takes readers inside the now-familiar world of Silicon Valley excess, the frantic deal-making, the absurdly hyped expectations, the phenomenal wealth.

"It Was Just the Law of Large Numbers At Work" (Street Cred), Wired 7.08, Aug 1999
Jim Clark now admits that he started Netscape without a specific planÑjust gut instinct and a $3 million nest egg. "How could anyone not make money on the Internet," he asks in his new seat-of-the-pants memoir.

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Practice Like A Pro Bass Player
If you're searching for the method to learn bass in 157-Easy Steps, you're likely to be disappointed.

Nuclear Trafficking ,WIRED, (Infoporn), AUG
How much weapons-grade uranium and plutonium has been stolen, from poorly-protected civilian and military stock piles around the world?

Speaking in Code ,WIRED, (Infoporn), JULY
More than half of the world's 6000 spoken languages are endangered or extinct. Same with computer tongues..

How Long Will Things Last? ,WIRED, (Infoporn), JUN
What are the odds that your great great great grandchildren will find and display the family digital photo album, circa 2002, a hundred years from now?

Field Research ,Wired, (eWord), MAR
Advances in small-satellite and GPS technology are helping NASA pull off a once impossible mission: the most accurate gravity map ever.

Friendlier Fire ,Wired, JAN
CNN body counts and nuclear disasters make for lousy PR, so it's no wonder the US military is seeking less damaging ways to end conflicts.

Critical Path (Must Read) WIRED, OCT
Research hospitals, pharmas, and biotech companies conduct some 5,000 clinical trials annually, yet only 5 percent of eligible patients take part. Why? Despite hundreds of Web sites (leading to almost as many 800-numbers), there's no central resource for medical trials.

Ready to Ware Health Care, WIRED, May
Astro Teller would like to see people monitor their health as closely as they track their portfolios.

The CEOs Guide To the Internet, (cover story) H&HN, April
In a little more than 24 months the Internet has irrevocably altered the health care landscape. From all indications, the e-onslaught has just begun.

docs.com (feature), H&HN, January
The battle for the physician sector of health care e-commerce turned up a notch late in December when Healtheon/WebMD announced its pending acquisition of Kinetra. It's a battle for a market that analysts peg at more than $7.2 billion per year.

Virtual ER (in-box), H&HN, January
Though he acknowledges it's not a "Star Trek" holodeck, Dag Von Lubitz, Ph.D., director of emergency medicine research labs at the University of Michigan, is sure he's found a lifesaving application for virtual reality.

Venturing Out (in-box), H&HN, January
While others race to boost their Web presence, Ned Schwing is building a business the old-fashioned way. Call it a "docs & mortar" strategy.

point, click, PURCHASE (feature),H&HN OCT 1999
Get your virtual shopping cart ready. Internet suppliers are setting their sites on health care.

Robo-Doc. Robotics: brave new world of surgery--or is it? (Cover), Materials Management in Health Care, November 1999
Two cutting-edge companies, Computer Motion and Intuitive Surgical, have begun clinical trials on a new generation of surgical devices that promise to extend minimally invasive techniques to cardiac surgery

Disclosure As PR (InBox), H&HN SEP 1999
Where some see trouble behind new IRS rules that expose not-for-profit health care to greater public scrutiny, others see a cyber lining.

Power To The Pad (InBox), H&HN SEP 1999
If Stuart Weisman has his way, the power of the Internet soon may be residing in doctors' coat pockets. ePhysician, his Mountain View, Calif., company, is beta testing an Internet subscription service that lets doctors prescribe drugs, order lab tests, and schedule patients using a handheld Palm Pilot.

Old Tech Gets Hip Again (feature), H&HN Aug 1999
MedTV goes deep in the heart of Texas, pagers get more persistent in St. Louis, and an e-network spans Spokane.

apothecary.now (cover), H&HN July 1999
E-commerce makes a play for prescription drugs, a $100 billion target. Yet most doctors aren't set up for e-prescribing.

Hype Helps, But Success Sells H&HN July 1999
Healtheon's plan to merge with privately held WebMD, a deal valued at $7 billion to $10 billion, sent its shares surging--and people throughout health care to their telephones and e-mail in-boxes.

Kinder Cuts H&HN July 1999
Medicine's cutting edge just got sharper, thanks to 20-year-old technology used to make computer chips.

Calls Forwarded (Inbox),H&HN July 1999
Call centers, the pivot point for health plans aiming to avert ER and office visits via telephone triage, now want to talk to patients modem to modem.

Koop's Coup (Inbox), H&HN June 1999
He's the Walter Cronkite of Medicine. Now, former surgeon general C. Everett Koop has parlayed his popularity with a free, Internet-based medical record.

Wiring Up, Reaching Out: Innovators H&HN May 1999
They range from a $78,000 intranet to a $4 million data warehouse. But while these six projects differ in cost, they overlap in purpose: putting more information into the hands of doctors, hospitals, employers, and consumers. In doing that, they show what being wired is all about.

Connect The Docs (profile), H&HN 360-Spring, May 1999
Jeff Arnold thinks he's found a way to coax even the most Web-wary doctors online.

Net Profits (feature), H&HN, March 1999
Health care Web traffic is buzzing. The race is on to build the best hubs to organize it all--and cash in.

Close-Up: Internet Vet Jim Clark (feature), H&HN, February, 1999
The Internet vet scrubbed Healtheon's initial IPO, but he's trying as hard as ever to hitch his company to the Web rocket. Flush with cash from the Netscape sale, Clark has put $40 million of his own money on the line.

Prognosis: Wired (cover), H&HN, November 5, 1998
Why Internet technology is the next medical breakthrough.

Rx Files (Crucial Tech), Wired 6.09, September 1998
A well-read doctor can no doubt offer patients good medical advice. But information overload is choking the health-care industry as physicians try to keep up with the reams of new data published every day.

A Credit to Quality (feature), H&HN, June 5, 1998
Practice audits are a mess, but critics wonder whether doctors can check up on their own.

Software That Plays Hardball (feature), H&HN May 20, 1998
Expert clinical systems fend off forgetfulness, mistakes, and fraud investigators.

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Digital Fishfinder streetcred, ,WIRED, OCT
I'm standing on Monterey Pier just east of John Steinbeck's Cannery Row, eyeing the promising patch of Pacific Ocean that is heaving beneath my feet.

High Art or Abysmal Hype? , Undercurrent, JUL
It seems there's been a bit of rout over a recent advertisement placed by tech-diving company Abysmal Diving, Boulder, Colorado.

A Shot in the Dark , WIRED MAR
"It's the logistical equivalent of filming on the face of Everest in the dark," explains director of photography Wes Skiles.

Dark Fathoms (Dispatch) Outside, JAN
The world's largest scuba-training company plunges into the treacherous depths of technical diving, where fatalities are the accepted price for adrenaline.

Deep Threat Undercurrent, (not published)
It seems nearly impossible to file a story about technical diving these days without being threatened by someone. Fortunately I've been around long enough not to take it personally. It's just one more hazard in the long litany of risks associated with tech diving, any one of which will kill you.

No Way UP (feature story) Scientific American Presents, Fall
Practitioners of the world's most technologically sophisticated extreme sport, cave divers risk death on each journey through a maze of watery passageways.

Deep Down With Richard Lutz (feature) Asian Diver, May
Lying at average depths of more than a mile-and-a-half down, at pressures exceeding an over-filled aluminium eighty (more than 3,500 psi), an exotic array of vent life-forms eke out a tumultuous existence under conditions resembling a toxic waste dump.

Bounty of the Deep, (Dispatches) Outside, March
Recovering lost shipwrecks has proven quite lucrative.

Breathe Easy, (Review) Outside, March
Though it's slightly smaller than a single-shot espresso mug, the new Oceanic Zeta ($550, 1.800.435.3483)--the world's smallest scuba regulator--delivers large volumes of air when you need it most. Read: over your head in the sub-aquatic environment.

Breathe Deep Breathe High Outside November 1999
Climbers go hypoxic over a development that could revolutionize mountaineering.

Uh, How Do You "Wee" At Sea, Anyway? AQUA September 1999
They're British, they're cheeky, and they're determined to make girl power a major force in diving.

Deep Blues (Dispatches), Outside, July 1999
Forty fathoms down, divers have been dying on the wreck of the Andrea Doria. Will this be the worst summer ever?

Deep Knowledge (Street Cred), Wired 7.06, June 1999
If you've ever had the urge to submerge, I recommend plunging into the Encyclopedia of Recreational Diving Multimedia. Don't let the dry title fool you.

Tragedy At Wakulla (For the Record), Outside, May, 1999
Veteran cave diver Bill Stone was just two weeks shy of wrapping up an ambitious project to map Florida's Wakulla Cave System when he received the bad news.

Mysteries of The Deep Scientific American Explorations, Spring 1999
After ten years of research, a new exhibit at the Monterey bay Aquarium brings into light an exotic collection of more than 40 species that eke out an existence in the frigid, sunless depths of the bay's submarine canyon

Giants Salute Giants The Undersea Journal, Spring 1999
Even though the 79-year old filmmaker's last public appearance in the U.S. was in 1959, Hans Haas' pioneering accomplishments in the dive industry are not forgotten.

Bob Talbot Asian Diver, January 1999
On a foggy December morning, 14-year old Bob Talbot had an encounter with destiny when a gray whale surfaced next to his small boat off the Southern California coast.

Why Hollywood Dumbs Down To Divers AQUA, January 1999
In the 1989 film "The Abyss", the crew of a submersible drilling platform is rescued by aliens who yank the failing undersea workstation to the surface.

Stuck on Scuba Stamps AQUA, January, 1999
Looking for a 1917 German postcard of a hard hat diver? Or how about a Jacques Cousteau stamp?

Calamari For Everyone! (Dispatches), Outside, December, 1998
A Pack of researchers pursue the elusive giant squid.

Emory Kristof Hunts The Giant Squid (The Wired 25) Wired 6.11, November 1998
Emory Kristof is riding shotgun on the last great animal hunt on planet Earth.

Heavy Rebreathing (Crucial tech), Wired 6.11, November 1998
A scuba diver's bubbles are essentially just wasted air, cutting short the time a diver can stay underwater. Explorer and engineer Bill Stone has a solution: Eliminate the bubbles and you can stay down all day.

The Modern-Magellan Fund (Electric Word), Wired 6.11, November 1998
"As far as the ocean is concerned, we're in the Lewis and Clark era," says marine biologist Sylvia Earle. The National Geographic Society explorer will spend the next five years charting the depths of the 12 US national marine sanctuaries.

Exploring the Ocean Planet (feature), Scientific American Presents The Oceans, Fall Quarter 1998
With El Ni–o kicking up a storm and the motion picture Titanic setting box off records, public awareness of the ocean may have reached an all time high in 1998.

Where Passions Run Deep: Bill Stone Versus the Silverback Gorillas of Cave Diving, AQUA, Oct/Nov 1998
Beyond its niche in film and TV lore-it was a location for both "The Creature From The Black Lagoon" and "Sea Hunt"-Florida's Wakulla Springs holds icon status among cave divers.

Reefer Madness (Electric Word), Wired 6.09, September, 1998
Over the next few years, Todd Barber plans to sink 1 million concrete spheres into the ocean around the Philippines.

A Fish Nerd's Journey Into The Twilight Zone (feature), AQUA, Aug/Sept 1998
For ichthyologist Richard Pyle, the thrill of discovery is worth all the risks Richard Pyle has been down at 300 feet for nearly an hour. His repertoire of tricks is nearly exhausted. And he still hasn't completed his mission on this mornings dive.

Play That Techno Music, Cave Boy, AQUA, Aug/Sept 1998
After spending two years recording in chilly 42-degree water several hundred feet beneath the earth's surface, British composer Steve Thomas may well have created a new music genre

A Whole New Ball Game AQUA, Aug/Sept 1998
Dismayed by the destruction of coral reefs around the world., Todd Barber quit a high-paying job as a management consultant and went to work designing a new type of artificial reef.

Divas of the Deep: Going Where No Man Has Gone Before AQUA , June/July 1998
Think of it as recreational diving's version of extreme skiing.

aquaCORPS archives: see Jim Cobb's Trimix website for a selection of artcles.

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