Media Letter, June – December 1990

Media Letter is the newsletter I started in June 1990 while I was writing my San Francisco Examiner column and ghostwriting on then smokin’-hot Prodigy for Stewart Alsop. John Doerr was my first subscriber — when I told him what I was doing, he wrote me a check on the spot. “Word of Mouth” was a gossip column.

June 1990
• An Era of Cooperation: Chronicling the Emerging Convergence
• Forging a New Copyright Ethos: Nobody Wins Unless Everybody Wins
• Word of Mouth: If You Must Know …

July 1990
• Empowerment’s Mixed Blessing
• Word of Mouth: Fun Facts To Know and Tell

August 1990
• Virtual Reality, Get Real
• Word of Mouth: Scoop of the Month Club

September 1990
• I Say Tomato, You Say RTOS: Have You No Standards?
• Microsoft, Tandy: Working the LCD Equation
• Word of Mouth: Disc-based Operating Rumors

October 1990
• When Is Being An Object A Good Thing? Databases, Objects and the Future
• Top 10: The Good, the Bad and the Absurd … Highlighting (for various reasons) 10 products announced or shipped during the previous month or so
• Word of Mouth: The Howl of the Wolf

November 1990
• PC-TV vs. TV Computing: What’s It Gonna Be?
• Top 10: R.I.P. for the Two I’s?
• Word of Mouth: No-Brainer 4U

December 1990
• Top 10: Season of Cooperation