David S. Bennahum

Biographical Info

Visit my linkedin page, here, for stuff about me.

 

This site contains an archive mostly of magazine articles I wrote.

 

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Air America Radio: Unfiltered

I appeared on Air America's Unfiltered radio program on July 21, 2004, with co-hosts Rachel Maddow and Lizz Winstead, to discuss Media Matters for America and the impact of bloggers on the 2004 Presidential election. You can listen to the segment, which is around 11 minutes.

Listen to the segment in MP3 format (7.6MB).

PBS: Spam Scheme

From The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer on PBS: "Authorities arrested a former America Online engineer yesterday for allegedly selling the e-mail addresses of 92 million AOL customers to companies sending unsolicited commercial e-mail. Jeffrey Brown discusses the alleged spam scam with David Bennahum, media and technology columnist for Slate magazine." Watch it.

Slate: Plug and Play

Pretty soon, you'll be able to get broadband Internet over your power lines. Maybe you already can.

Slate: Can They Hear You Now?

How the FBI eavesdrops on Internet phone calls (and why it sometimes can't).

PBS: Talking on the Web

From The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer on PBS: "AT&T, Time Warner and Qwest all announced initiatives this week to offer long distance and local calling service using Internet technology. Ray Suarez discusses this cutting-edge telecommunications technology with Slate Magazine Media and Technology columnist David Bennahum." Watch it.

NPR: Day to Day

From National Public Radio: NPR's Madeleine Brand talks with Slate contributor David Bennahum about technology that allows people to jam signals of cell phones within a limited range. While not exactly legal in the United States, the devices are becoming more popular.

Slate: Hope You Like Jamming, Too

Cell-phone jammers may soon be all over.
(Listen to this story on National Public Radio.)

Slate: Warren Buffet for Coupon-Clippers

Can a Web site save you 70 percent at the grocery store?

L.A. Times: Mr Watson, Come Here! It's Free

Home Edition, Opinion, Page M-5
Editorial Pages Desk

The Internet is famous -- and infamous -- for disrupting traditional businesses with unexpected innovations. Hardly a season goes by without some new Internet-based technology upending people's expectations of how things are supposed to be.

Read the rest of this story by downloading the text file (13K):

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Slate: You Can Hear Verizon Now

But can you hear it later?