Media Grok
Media Grok was an award-winning daily newsletter produced by The Industry Standard. The Grok reported on the way the media were reporting on the Internet economy. (The verb to grok comes from the novel Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert Heinlein. It means to understand in a global sense; to possess intimate and exhaustive knowledge.) In August 2001, the Industry Standard sought bankruptcy protection; in September the assets of Standard Media were sold at auction. The winning bidder, IDG, has kindly kept the Standard's site alive on the Web. Not counting on their perpuetual forbearance, I have collected my work for the Standard over the last few years in this local archive. These articles are Copyright 1999-2001 by Standard Media.

2001:
	09-25 Worm Insurance 09-21 The Microsoft-DOJ Dance Marathon 09-14 Exploiting It 09-07 Downbeat on HewPaq 09-04 Not So Exciting AtHome 08-14 High Flyer 08-10 Cybersquat.info 08-07 All Venture Capital Is Local 08-03 No Rhythm, No Ricochet	07-31 Icon Wars 07-30 Pretty Good Wiretapping? 07-30 Windows XP: Threat or Savior? 07-27 Pick Your Privacy Problem 07-24 Has AOL Gotten the Message? 07-20 Worms and Viruses, Oh My 07-17 Dutch Giant Gobbles Last Pea in the Pod 07-13 Wireless Drive-By Hacking 07-10 What We Think About... the Net 07-06 Are Security Companies Secure Investments? 07-03 Wireless Pioneer Circles the Wagons
	06-29 Yahoo Launches, Napster Fades 06-22 Maneuvers Before the Microsoft Ruling 06-19 Who Let the Wolves In? 06-05 Sleepless In Stockholm 06-04 Whose Desktop Is It, Anyway? 06-04 Wal-Mart Wants You to Surf Like It's 1999 06-01 Lessons From an Imaginary Life and Death	05-29 Is Amazon in the Wrong Business? 05-25 VeriSign Drops a List, Loses a Clue 05-24 ...Never Try to Sell Software to CEOs 05-24 Cyberscammers Help FBI's Image 05-22 Supremes Will Play COPA 05-18 Cheese, the Friendly Linux Worm 05-17 Calling Dick Tracy by Christmas 2002 05-11 Nortel Bails on DSL 05-11 Can You Budget for Elections? ICANN't 05-08 Renting the Software Experience 05-04 Microsoft Security Flaw in Shades of Gray 05-01 The Net on Net Taxes
	04-27 This Is War? 04-24 Watermarks ... or Freedom? 04-20 Smile, Dial, and Pay More 04-17 The Day the Streaming Died 04-13 Why Educause? Just Because 04-10 IBM and Carrier debut a cool idea 04-06 It's Easy to Crack the Government 04-03 VeriSign Still Has the Ball	03-30 DoubleClick, Double-Lock the Doors 03-27 TiVo Is Watching You 03-23 If You Can't Trust Microsoft... 03-20 Congress Flails in E-Mail Tidal Wave 03-16 NCR: 'All Your Palm Are Belong to Us' 03-13 How New Is the Latest Security Flaw? 03-09 Intel Lowers the Limbo Stick 03-06 Bibliofind Owned By Hax0r D00dz 03-02 VeriSign Retains Eminent Domain
	02-27 Domain Names are Greek to Me 02-23 Whose Hard Drive Is It, Anyway? 02-20 Spam Delivered Piping Hot 02-16 Peering Into the Future 02-13 Deja Googled 02-09 Congress Tweaks ICANN 02-06 Wiretapping Your E-Mail	01-30 Sleep Tight, Don't Let the BIND Bugs Bite 01-23 Supremes to Untangle FCC, Telecom Fights 01-19 Script Kiddie Cops a Plea 01-16 Hack My System. Please. 01-12 Glimmers Amid the Gloom 01-09 Amazon Gets Little Credit 01-05 Easy Dot-Com, Hard Dot-Go 01-02 What Lies Ahead
2000:
	12-26 Review Review 12-22 Microsoft Stretches .Net Over Great Plains 12-19 Open Up This Instant 12-15 Microsoft Lowers Expectations 12-12 Courts Taming the Wild, Wild Web 12-08 File-Swapping Meets the Revolving Door 12-05 China Stretches Its Wires	11-29 Of Fraud and Sex.com 11-28 Plastics + Semiconductors = Money 11-21 E-Publishing Going Wide 11-10 Translate This: 'Oopsie' 11-07 Awash in E-Books 11-03 Vote Trading in a Horse Race
	10-31 Fiber, Fiber Everywhere 10-24 Groovin' Peer-to-Peer 10-17 Advertisers Look Inward 10-10 Politics and Profiling 10-03 May I Have the Encrypted Envelope, Please	09-26 Supremes Won't Hear Microsoft Case 09-19 Pseudo.com Says Buh-Bye 09-15 It's Privacy Week 09-12 HPwC: Half Full or Half Empty? 09-08 AmEx to Make Online Porn Purchases Safer 09-05 Old-Fashioned B-to-B 09-01 Untangling the Wireless Ruling
	08-31 Ado or Not Ado? 08-29 Intel Has a Monday 08-22 Love's Labor's Lost 08-17 Carnivore Slow to Spill Its Guts 08-15 A Bumper Crop of Break-Ins 08-08 Press Shrugs at Major Java Bug 08-01 Foxes and Henhouses	07-25 Trust Us, We're the Government 07-18 Clinton Liberalizes Crypto Export, Press Yawns 07-11 FTC to ToySmart: Define "Never" 07-07 FTC Wants a Piece of B-to-B 07-07 IBM and Compaq Bond Over Storage
	06-30 Free PCs and Fine Print 06-30 Priceline Nosedives as Airline Plan Taxis for Takeoff 06-21 British Telecom: We Own Hyperlinks 06-19 Gates Watergated? 06-13 Bluetooth Gets Real 06-12 Serbian Badman a Toothless Trojan? 06-06 APBnews Vanishes in a Puff of Irony	05-30 Don't Win, Don't Tel 05-23 Business-to-Business as Usual 05-17 House Outlaws an Urban Legend 05-17 Microsoft's Lobbying Paying Off? 05-16 LyTerra? Terracos? 05-10 Press, Marketers Still Love the Bug 05-09 Late Starter NTT Moves on U.S., Europe 05-03 Metallica Names Screen Names 05-03 Forgot Your Finger? Click Here 05-02 B to B, or not to B
	04-26 Netcos Check the Bottom Line 04-26 Microsoft Spins and Sweetens Options 04-25 Napster Not Napping 04-25 Virtual News, Virtual Ads 04-19 The Tech Rally, Day 2 04-19 There You Go Again 04-18 Pocket Change 04-12 Linux, Eh? 04-11 Virgin Gives It Away	03-28 CPHack Programmers Throw in the Towel 03-24 Microsoft Stock Pops, Speculation Rages 03-21 Peace and Strife in the Patent Wars 03-14 Microsoft Buys Into RealNames Keywords 03-07 Desperately seeking the next DoubleClick
	02-29 Wireless News Blankets the Wires 02-22 No Spam, Please - We're From Colorado 02-15 Then There Was One 02-11 Press Ignores DoS Attackers' Cease-Fire 02-10 Hackers Shut Down the Media 02-09 Reuters Embraces the Net 02-08 Killer Demo 2000 02-01 Super Bowled Over, Dot-Commed Out	01-25 I hack you!!!!!! 01-18 Et tu, Thomas? 01-18 T. Rex auction, take 2 01-11 Much ado about stolen credit cards
1999:
	12-21 CNN, Leisureplanet travel in circles 12-14 Zero Knowledge, lots of privacy 12-09 Microsoft-Ericsson explore telephony 12-07 Code breakers turn cell phones into party lines	11-30 A rumor electrifies Corel's stock 11-23 Antiquarian bookseller snoops Amazon's e-mail 11-16 All Comdex, all the time 11-03 Consumer protection derails digital signatures 11-02 Real Privacy
	10-28 Wire globally, access locally 10-27 Say it loud: I'm back and I'm a cloud 10-26 A stink over "Skunk Works" 10-20 Encyclopedia Britannica goes free, portalizes 10-19 Subscribing to your computer 10-13 E Ink gets ink 10-12 Selling free software, giving away the profit 10-05 MCI and Sprint are everywhere 10-04 Whole lotta shaking going on	09-08 Sun's network PC: Try, try again 09-01 Hackers create Global Hell 08-31 ...Another Security Break for Microsoft 08-25 Big-name e-comm ventures target holiday sales 08-25 AOL goes free in Britain 08-24 A Bigger, Longer Shortcut... 08-24 Regulating the Net: Where's the Fun in That? 08-17 Court to AOL: You've got squat

Posts
Posts was a regular feature of the print edition of The Standard consisting of topical, short pieces, often of a humorous or offbeat nature.

2000-11-08 Save URLy and Often
2000-09-05 Play That Funky Source Code, Geek Boy
2000-08-21 The Candidates' Platforms
2000-08-07 A Way With Words
2000-05-01 Exploiting Elian

Shop Grok

Shop Grok was a weekly newsletter reporting on the way the media were reporting on Internet commerce.

2000-09-28 Amazon Says 'Oops' to Keep the Press at Bay

2000-03-29 Politics and the pursuit of spammers
2000-03-22 Recreational browsing at work meets its match
2000-03-15 Life, liberty, and Net anonymity
2000-03-08 You can click, but you can't hide

2000-02-09 Shields up!
2000-02-02 Domain name fashion extends beyond basic black
2000-01-26 The Web's 'Southern' twang