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Andrea Dudrow
Andrea Dudrow is a writer living in sunny San Francisco. She has been covering the Web and Web design for the past four years and has contributed to Macworld, MacWEEK, eMediaweekly, Adobe.com, Adobe magazine, Publish, and the San Francisco Chronicle, among others. She also writes about arts and culture, and spends a great deal of time fantasizing about the broadband future.
Notes From the Epicenter: Que Sera, Sera
Features: Written by Andrea Dudrow on May 21, 2001
In the face of the changing times, contributing editor Andrea Dudrow calls it the epicenter no more.
Notes from the Epicenter: Paranoid about Internet Privacy
Features: Written by Andrea Dudrow on May 14, 2001
Contributing editor Andrea Dudrow has had the feeling of late that she's being watched. The issue now is whether or not she should care.
Notes from the Epicenter: Finding Your Inner Cyber-Femme
Features: Written by Andrea Dudrow on May 7, 2001
"Vogue"? "Bazaar"? Who needs 'em. Contributing editor Andrea Dudrow tosses her guilt-inducing friends of old in favor of smarter, more contemporary Web sites for the Net-savvy woman.
Notes from the Epicenter: iMac Style, Windows Vogue
Features: Written by Andrea Dudrow on April 30, 2001
Forget protected memory spaces, pre-emptive multitasking, and dynamically allocated virtual memory. What counts when choosing an operating system is style.
Notes From the Epicenter: Hallelujah.com
Features: Written by Andrea Dudrow on April 23, 2001
Will worship via the Web bring salvation to the masses or diminish the power of religion? Contributing editor Andrea Dudrow investigates.
Notes from the Epicenter: Going Once, Going Twice, Sold -- to auctiongirl37!
Features: Written by Andrea Dudrow on April 16, 2001
I've never quite understood auctions myself. Which is probably because most of my exposure to them has been through sitcoms.
Notes from the Epicenter: Six Degrees of Summer Camp
Features: Written by Andrea Dudrow on April 9, 2001
Since Yahoo! has become a ubiquitous Internet portal unto itself, Andrea Dudrow avers that it might be the only dot-com that really matters.
Notes From the Epicenter: In Search of the True West Coast Tech Capital
Features: Written by Andrea Dudrow on April 2, 2001
The dot-conomy slide has no doubt left San Franciscan's feeling shaken. At least one -- our own Andrea Dudrow -- is left wondering whether or not the city by the bay still wears the new-media crown.
Notes from the Epicenter: Where Is the Future Taking Us?
Features: Written by Andrea Dudrow on March 26, 2001
As technology continues to advance, some industry noteworthies fear our accomplishments will come at too high a price.
Notes from the Epicenter: After the Land Rush
Features: Written by Andrea Dudrow on March 19, 2001
Amidst international dot-com boundary disputes and intercelebrity clashes, the humble owner of dudrow.com wonders about the future of Internet domain names.
Notes From the Epicenter: The Not-So-Good Old Days
Features: Written by Andrea Dudrow on March 12, 2001
Andrea Dudrow wonders how research was ever done before the advent of the Internet.
Notes From the Epicenter: Soul Searching in San Francisco
Features: Written by Andrea Dudrow on March 5, 2001
Andrea Dudrow examines the effect of the dot-com slowdown on San Francisco.
Notes from the Epicenter: Napster Unplugged
Features: Written by Andrea Dudrow on February 26, 2001
The decision is in, and it wasn't a good one for Napster. The question now is what recording labels will do with this window of opportunity.
Notes From the Epicenter: Online Shopping Helpers Hold Their Own
Features: Written by Andrea Dudrow on February 19, 2001
Connecting buyers and sellers online may be more lucrative than selling the actual products.
Notes from the Epicenter: Is the Great Internet Career a Listing Away?
Features: Written by Andrea Dudrow on February 12, 2001
As Internet layoff announcements continue to pile up, the most successful online ventures seem to be online job-search engines.
Notes From the Epicenter: A Portal Is a Portal Is a Portal
Features: Written by Andrea Dudrow on February 5, 2001
Now that the AOL Time Warner merger has been officially approved (and the pundits' visions of an Alan Greenspan-helmed mega-corporation ruling the world are about ten steps closer to being realized), it's time to sit back and see what the new media-technology super-company can do.
Notes From the Epicenter: Powering Down the Web
Features: Written by Andrea Dudrow on January 29, 2001
If California wants to continue to be the vanguard of the new economy, it'd better figure out how to keep the Internet supplied with the power it needs.
Notes From the Epicenter: The Webbys Play on
Features: Written by Andrea Dudrow on January 22, 2001
Awards show season is a time I am particularly fond of as it involves not only lots of movie-going, but also lots of wine drinking and brie tasting while lounging about in sweat pants critiquing other people's designer gowns and hairstyles.
Notes from the Epicenter: The Art World Comes of Age
Features: Written by Andrea Dudrow on January 15, 2001
In the recently unveiled Web exhibit 010101: Art in Technological Times, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art examines how the Internet has changed fine art, and how fine art can change the Internet.
Notes From the Epicenter: Nostra-Dudrow
Features: Written by Andrea Dudrow on January 8, 2001
Here are my predictions -- some trends I believe will characterize the Internet-related new year.