My Internet: a personal view of Internet business opportunities --

books and articles from samizdat.com

by Richard Seltzer, seltzer@samizdat.com, www.samizdat.com

For details about this publishing service, check the readme document.

You can buy this CD with five books, over 160 articles, and 65 newsletter issues that will inspire you and provide the practical information you need to build your own personal Web site or Internet-based business, for $29 at our online store http://store.yahoo.com/samizdat.

Questions? If Richard Seltzer, the authro of this CD, is online now, you can chat with him immediately by clicking on his photo (below). If he is offline, you can send you an email by clicking on his photo.

If you would like to have your PC (with speakers) read these texts aloud to you, while they are displayed in text on the screen, see below about the free ReadPlease software that we have included on this CD.

Click on a category to go to one of the major sections of this index page:

• Books
• Web Business Bootcamp (originally published by Wiley, 2002)
• Take Charge of Your Web Site (originally published by Mighty Words 2001)
• The Social Web: how to build a successful personal or business Web site (1997, 1998)
• The Way of the Web: lessons from the Internet -- how to adapt to the new business environment (1995)
• Shop Online the Lazy Way (originally published by Macmillan 1999)
• Internet Business Insights speeches -- text with audio narration that you can hear with RealAudio
• General Reference -- tips and Qs and As especially useful for newcomers
• Articles
• Internet business trends
• Online shopping/selling
• Advice for online auction sellers
• Internet search -- how to find and be found
• Internet marketing
• Community and collaboration
• Distance education
• Web page/site design
• Advice for working at home
• What's happening to book publishing?
• Web-based automatic translation
• Social implications of the Internet
• B&R Samizdat Express: who we are and kudos
• Internet-on-a-Disk: newsletter of electronic texts and Internet trends; every issue, starting Feb. 1994

For details about this publishing service, check the readme document.
For details about Richard's Internet consulting business, on the Web check www.samizdat.com/consult.html

Another Internet book by Richard Seltzer not included on this CD because the publisher still owns the rights:

The AltaVista Search Revolution (Osborne/McGraw-Hill)

The books on this CD are presented in plain text, in HTML, or in both. If you are connected to the Internet, you can use the links in the HTML version to connect to the pages and sites mentioned.
Three speeches are presented in HTML with links to audio files, also contained on the CD, of the author. You need the RealPlayer from RealAudio to hear those files.

Also included is one short classic videoclip -- "A Glimpse of the Future" made by Richard Seltzer and Berthold Langer in Feb. 1994. It is in a common file format that you can play with RealPlayer, Microsoft's Media Player, and other common video software.

You can copy any of these files onto your hard drive for convenience, or make an archival copy of the CD, as backup in case of damage to the original.

ReadPlease has given us permission to include the free version of their voice conversion software on this CD.
Click here if you would like to use this software. When you click on that link, you will then be asked if you want to save it on your computer or just run it. It will be easier for you if you install it on your hard drive; it will only take about 10 Mbytes; so choose Save. Then select the directory that you'd like to put it in. When the rapid, automatic installation is done, you will be able to open ReadPlease by clicking on an icon on your desktop.

When running ReadPlease, click on File, then Open, and browse to the texts you are interested on the CD (or any other text file you have). Click on Play and it will start "reading" the complete file aloud to you. Highlight a chunk of text (of any size) with your browser and then click on Selection, and it will read the text you selected. Controls in the right column allow you to change the speed of the voice (with a sliding bar), change the font size (with a sliding bar), and switch among four different voices (with the right and left arrows). You can edit the text right in the text window of ReadPlease, adding your notations, and marks you might want to make to indicate where you last stopped reading, and then save that edited book wherever you'd like on your hard drive. You'll find other choices under Options. Enjoy.

Please keep in mind that ReadPlease is their software not ours. They are the experts on it. They have even better versions with even clearer, more natural voices, which they sell. You can listen to samples at their Web site www.readplease.com, where you can also see detailed help files.  And you can contact them at:
ReadPlease Corporation, 121 Cherry Ridge Road, Thunder Bay, ON, Canada P7G 1A7. Phone: 807-474-7702

The easiest way to get started is to click on My Computer, then on your CD drive, then on index.html. (That should bring you to here, in Word or your Web browser, or WordPad or Notepad, depending on your computer's setup.)

From the index, click on an individual work to see the full text in your browser or in Word. Click "Back" in your browser to return here.  Use the "find" function in your browser (under Edit/Find in both Netscape and IE) to find any word or phrase within a document.

When you stop reading, jot down the last phrase (a unique set of words) so you can search for that the next time you want to read and easily find the spot where you left off.

If you just want to read and if you have a large screen, use your browser and under View increase the type size to meet your taste.

If you just want to read and you have a small screen, try using WordPad or Word.

If you want to take notes while you read, first save the file on your hard drive, then open it in WordPad or Word, enter your notes with the text (making them distinctive with bold or italic or by enclosing them in brackets] as you go along, and save the entire file, with those changes, when you are done.

If you use Word, you can Select All [under Edit], and modify the font and type size (to make the letters larger and easier to read) [under Format and Font], and save the files on your hard drive [under File, Save As] with whatever changes you have made (including notes you made while reading).

In addition, we include a shareware program (courtesy of DLJ Software, 182 Maplewood Circle, Urbana, OH 43078.(513) 484-3992). This program, READIT.EXE, was particularly designed for use by the blind, but it makes it very easy for anyone to read and search plain text documents.

B&R Samizdat Express, 33 Gould St., West Roxbury, MA 02132. 617-469-2269. seltzer@samizdat.com

BOOKS

Web Business Boot Camp: Hands-on Internet lessons for manager, entrepreneurs, and professionals (originally published by Wiley, 2002)

•  front matter
• Chapter 1. Welcome to the land of the free
• Chapter 2. The value of anonymity: privacy and masquerade
• Chapter 3. Make your own Web pages on your PC
• Chapter 4. Assemble your pages to form a Web site
• Chapter 5. Let people know that you're there
• Chapter 6. How to improve your Web site
• Chapter 7. Building your audience with online interaction
• Chapter 8. Building relationships with customers: what you can learn from selling at auctions
• Chapter 9. What to do with an audience and what else to do with your content
• Chapter 10. Going global
• Chapter 11. Experimenting with futures
• Chapter 12. The future of business on the Internet
• blog about the book (on the Web)

Take Charge of Your Web Site (originally published by MightyWords, 2001)

• Introduction: My Web site was supposed to bring me new business. Help!
• html version
• plain text version
• Chapter 1: What you can do to fix your existing site
• html version
• plain text version
related articles:
• "The power of words on the Internet -- Content-based Internet marketing"
• html version
• plain text version
• text plus audio version (RealPlayer)
• "What belongs on a Web page, and why?"
• html version
• plain text version
• "Advice to a friend redesigning a company Web site"
• html version
• plain text version
• "How to use content to attract traffic to your Web site, even when branding rules saddle you with a search-engine unfriendly design"
• html version
• plain text version
• "The leap to multimedia -- It all depends on disk space"
• html version
• plain text version
• "The future of the Internet and the future of business"
• plain text version
• html version
• text plus audio (RealPlayer)
• Chapter 2: How to build free Web pages
• html version
• plain text version
related articles:
• "How to Design Web pages without learning HTML"
• plain text version
• html version
• "The Content Question -- Okay, I have Web space. Now what am I going to put there?"
• plain text version
• html version
• "Who Owns What?" [the copyright question]
• plain text version
• html version
• "How to Build a Personal Web Site -- the Broader Implications of Search Engines"
• plain text version
• html version
• Chapter 3: How to publicize your Web site
• html version
• plain text version
related articles:
• "Search engines and directories: when to use which"
• html version
• plain text version
• "Tutorial: AltaVista Search -- How to get the most out of it"
• html version
• plain text version
• "Misconceptions about 'search engine optimization'"
• html version
• plain text version
• "Make navigation easy for visitors and search engine crawlers: Build a sitemap page"
• html version
• plain text version
• "Search engine submissions -- links to the key pages"
• plain text version
• html version
• "How to publicize your Web site over the Internet"
• plain text version
• html version
• "How to make chat work for your online business"
• plain text version
• html version
• "Going fishing -- hooking Web page visitors and turning them into customers"
• plain text version
• html version
• "Using stats to improve your site"
• plain text version
• html version

The Social Web: how to build a successful personal or business Web site (1997, 1998).

• From "Flypaper" to Social Web (preface)
• html version
• plain text version
• Let People Find You -- Putting "Flypaper" to Work (introduction)
• html version
• plain text version
• Basic Building Blocks of the Social Web (chapter 1)
• html version
• plain text version
• How to Design Web Pages Without Learning HTML (chapter 2)
• html version
• plain text version
• The Content Question -- Okay, I have Web space. Now what am I going to put there? (chapter 3)
• html version
• plain text version
• Who Owns What? (chapter 4)
• html version
• plain text version
• How to Build a Personal Web Site -- the Broader Implications of Search Engines (chapter 5)
• html version
• plain text version
• How to publicize your Web site over the Internet (chapter 6)
• html version
• plain text version
• Making your site global -- taking advantage of free translation at AltaVista (chapter7)
• html version
• plain text version

The Way of the Web  lessons from the Internet -- how to adapt to the new business environment (1995).

• Epigraph -- "The Way of the Web"
• html version
• plain text version
• Will the Real Tomorrowland Please Step Forward?" (Introduction)
• html version
• plain text version
• The Giants Wore Velcro on their Shoulders (Chapter 1)
• html version
• plain text version
• Wake Up: Tomorrow Happened Yesterday (Chapter 2)
• html version
• plain text version
• What's the Razor and What's the Razor Blade (Chapter 3)
• html version
• plain text version
• Curious Technology (Chapter 4)
• html version
• plain text version
• Building Communities on the Internet (Chapter 5)
• html version
• plain text version
• And the Blind Shall Lead Them: New Ways to Perceive Cyberspace (Chapter 6)
• html version
• plain text version
• Anonymity for Fun and Deception: The Other Side of Community (Chapter 7)
• html version
• plain text version
• Identity, Motivation, and Community (Chapter 8)
• html version
• plain text version

• IntroductionWhy shop Online?
• html version
• plain text version
• Part One covers aspects of online shopping that apply no matter what you want to buy.
• Chapter One covers the basics -- how to find your way to the online stores you want by way of the paths that others have laid out for you.
• html version
• plain text version
• Chapter Two provides the information you need to become an independent shopper, using search engines and price-comparison sites, and auctions.
• html version
• plain text version
• Chapter Three gives you pointers on advanced techniques, which can help you become a creative shopper -- sharing experiences with and getting advice from other shoppers, and becoming a full member of the online community.
• html version
• plain text version
• Part 2 covers special cases, where there are major differences in how you shop based on the kinds of things you are looking for:
• Chapter Four -- books, music, and videotapes
• html version
• plain text version
• Chapter Five -- computers and software
• html version
• plain text version
• Chapter Six -- travel
• html version
• plain text version
• Chapter Seven -- food
• html version
• plain text version
• Chapter Eight -- money, including loans, insurance, and investments
• html version
• plain text version
• Chapter Nine -- cars
• html version
• plain text version
• Chapter Ten -- real estate, including houses, apartments, and roommates
• html version
• plain text version
• More shopping ideas and resources (the appendices)
• html version
• plain text version
• Bio of the author and why he wrote this book
• html version
• plain text version
• Acknowledgements and thank you's
• html version
• plain text version

Internet business trends

• Clues to online success in today's down business environment
• Coping with email pollution -- viruses, scams and spam
• The microphone may be mightier than the keyboard: business uses of speech recognition
• Business model in motion -- Yaga offers an alternative to advertising for content-rich Web sites
• A great way to get feedback -- but will anyone use it? Quick Topic Document Review
• Cyberwinds -- which way are the winds of change blowing?
• Redesign your site for the post-Minda era -- browsing behavior is changing; users have turned off java and active scripts
• Yaga, Yaga do! -- P2P meets micropayments
• Baseball -- the killer app for audio over the Internet
• Text chat choices
• Message from Mongolia
• Beyond McLuhan -- many parallel media, and discussion, not message
• Evaluating synchronous/real-time platforms for distance education
• PalTalk -- a free voice chat alternative for distance education and business
• Business opportunities for peer-to-peer (P2P) networks
• Rethinking "books" and "ebooks" -- stating the obvious (which often seems to be ignored.)
• Free talk flourishes
• Beyond banner ads: how to turn a newspaper audience into revenue
• What free stuff is left and why? Recommended sites
• Half is more than enough -- half.com's online retail business model
• Banner ads are dead, long live online advertising
• How businesses can capitalize on Java Puzzle Cards
• Going fishing -- hooking Web page visitors and turning them into customers
• Your private disk drive on the Web -- MangoMind from MangoSoft
• The leap to multimedia -- it all depends on disk space
• The future of the Internet and the future of business
• Survival of the startups - how to recruit the right people and build loyalty and create a motivating - who has time for this?
• The Internet and books -- transformation of an industry
• Learn to ask the right questions
• The Web and your palm -- sometimes less is more, when it's the right less
• Bridging wired and wireless, and putting the user in control
• Sync to people: building relationships palm-to-palm
• Brand names on the Web -- a raging success story (about Raging Search)
• Turning Web traffic into revenue -- affiliate and related programs
• Another look at the future -- divergence is the next challenge
• When progress is a step backward -- in praise of plain-text email
• Make your presentations in Internet, instead of PowerPoint
• Building businesses on top of businesses -- the AuctionRover example
• Thoughts about 3D on the Web
• Internet lessons from London
• Web-site superglue -- the Nutrition Calculator at Healthwatch
• Sales channels and the Web
• Whatever happened to virtual companies?
• Wireless Internet from a business perspective
• Business opportunities opened by high-speed access
• DSL vs. cable for high-speed Internet access
• Video and the Internet
• Just Enough Quality
• The Internet Software Tug of War
• Updating the Circles Model -- Value-Added Internet Services
• plain text
• html (with one illustration)
• Scanning for gold -- Experiences in the global electronic environment

Online shopping/selling

• Building a store at Yahoo
• How to make money on the Web --hypothetical example from the car rental business
• Airlines, online shopping and focusing your business on what matters
• Thoughts about 3D on the Web
• Barter and swapping sites -- an alternative to online auctions
• Half is more than enough -- half.com's online retail business model
• Online shopping lessons from the holidays
• What's all the fuss? Putting online credit card security into perspective.
• Shopping for gifts: help in buying things you'd never buy for yourself
• The right stores for extraordinary gifts: personal favorites and advice
• Shopping for what you wish money could buy: health, fitness, and beauty, Part One: Coping with illness
• Shopping for what you wish money could buy: health, fitness, and beauty, Part Two: Wellness -- exercise, diet, and nutrition to get in shape, feel better, live longer, and look better
• Looking good no matter how you feel -- Shopping for cosmetics
• Buying prescription medicines online
• Web-site superglue -- the Nutrition Calculator at Healthwatch
• Coping with income tax and financial aid in 2002
• Web-based relief for tax-time headaches
• Shopping for a summer vacation: when you want to buy a dream
• Buying tickets for live events -- What to do when you absolutely, positively want to be scalped

Advice for online auction sellers

• New eBay Insights
• Selling your own stuff at eBay: updated tips for serious sellers
• eBay update -- what's changed over the last few years and how you can
take advantage as a seller: details that pay
• Are you an online auction addict? If not, here's why and how to become one.
• Guide to eBay for sellers -- practical advice from one seller to another
• More practical advice for sellers at auctions -- the devil in the details
• Building businesses on top of businesses -- the AuctionRover example
• Barter and swapping sites -- an alternative to online auctions

• Building (and Protecting) Your Reputation as a Seller
• Getting to know them -- Part 1: Understanding the needs of dealers, collectors, and fans
• Getting to know them -- Part 2: Dealing with dealers and collectors
• Getting to know them -- Part 3: Understanding the buying patterns of fans
• Getting to know them -- Part 4: How to get buyers to reveal their interests
• Make-to-sell -- can this model work for online auctions? Another instance of the value of getting to know your customers
• Building your own Web pages to help you buy/sell at auctions Part 1: What are your options?
• Building your own Web pages to help you sell at auctions Part 2: Keep it simple and focus on what will help buyers find you
• Building your own Web pages to help you sell at auctions Part 3: Letting people find you through search engines and directories
• Building your own Web pages to help you sell at auctions Part 4: Talk it up
• Record keeping for auction sellers Part 1: Learning how to mine gold efficiently
• Record keeping for auction sellers Part 2: Practical tips for taking care of tedious details
• Record keeping for auction sellers Part 3: Yes, Virginia, there is an IRS
• Record keeping for auction sellers Part 4: Getting ready for tax time
• Timing your Auctions -- When to start your auctions to get the most bids, and how to do it
• What's it worth?
• Entering the gray zone: Be creative but watch your step. Do's and don'ts of off-line sales
• Using auctions to promote your business -- Listings as advertising/marketing messages
• Auction selling for market research and ecommerce lessons
• Setting starting prices for your auctions
• Managing your auctions to sell more profitably -- posting auctions with "inventory"
• Managing your auctions to sell more profitably -- using image hosting, scheduling, and "closed auctions"
• Encouraging bids -- focus on price and description
• Encouraging bids the creative way
• Are refunds and guarantees overkill?
• Refunds and guarantees -- psychology and convenience
• What's the meaning of "auctioneer" on the Internet? Misunderstanding leads to "licensing" problems
• Turning "pro"-- when your online sales become a "business," you need to check and comply with local laws and regulations
• Do you have to pay auction fees with credit cards?
• Tips on getting organized -- building habits and using a Palm
• Tips on being a good boss when you work for yourself
• Tips on being a better employee when you work for yourself -- the power of "creative procrastination"

Internet search -- how to find and how to be found

How to find and be found on the Internet. Richard originally wrote this detailed tutorial as the script of three-hour seminar given dozens of times. In 2000, as a consultant, he expanded and revised the Advanced Search portions for posting at the AltaVista site in 2000. Since then he has continued to revise and expand the entire documents for posting at his own site, www.samizdat.com and inclusion here.

Articles by Richard Seltzer:

• How search engines distort Web page design and lead to the rise and fall of business models -- the price of "popularity"
• Google's weakness and AltaVista's strength
• How to use content to attract traffic to your Web site, even when branding rules saddle you with a search-engine unfriendly design
• Redesign your site for the post-Minda era -- browsing behavior is changing; users have turned off java and active scripts
• Search engine update (March 2001)
• Search engine submissions -- links to the key pages
• Misconceptions about "search engine optimization"
• Search, Compare, and Bid--Finding What You Want on Your Own chapter from the book Shop Online the Lazy Way
• Search engines and directories: when to use which
• Make navigation easy for visitors and search engine crawlers: Build a sitemap page
• Brand names on the Web -- a raging success story (about Raging Search)
• Original AltaVista article, "The Alta Vista Revolution" published in Internet-on-a-Disk back in January 1996.

• Flypaper: how to draw traffic to your Web pages
• From "Flypaper" to Social Web (preface to the book The Social Web)
• Let People Find You -- Putting "Flypaper" to Work (introduction to the book The Social Web)
• The Joy of Being Found: Want to Connect with Old Friends, Customers, Employer? Try using Flypaper
• Flypaper Dialogue -- Making Web Sites Interactive Without Interactive Software
• Flypaper examples (from tutorial "How to find and be found on the Internet")

Internet marketing

• Sailing into the wind -- real-time marketing navigation on the Web
• Airlines, online shopping and focusing your business on what matters
• Building a business that can last
• The power of words on the Internet -- content-based Internet marketing
• Going fishing -- hooking Web page visitors and turning them into customers
• Misconceptions about "search engine optimization"
• What belongs on a Web page, and why?
• Web site style -- how to appeal to a general audience
• Content wars: video vs. text. Welcome to Lilliput, Mr. Gulliver.
• Varieties of content (spontaneous, crafted, and engineered) and how to turn content into value
• Defining "Internet marketing"
• Sprint marketing: what should you do when time is more important than money?
• Opportunities lost: trying to make sense of sprint marketing
• 'Hit-Vitations': What's Going On? And How Do You Play This Game?
• Flypaper: how to draw traffic to your Web pages
• How to publicize a new web site over the Internet

Community and collaboration

• Chatterbox -- a new alternative for voice chat
• Quick advice for managing members-only online discussion
• Text chat choices
• Evaluating synchronous/real-time platforms for distance education
• Advanced techniques--Becoming a Creative Online Shopper  chapter from the book Shop Online the Lazy Way
• The importance of "listening"
• Review of The Cluetrain Manifestoby Rick Levine, Christopher Locke, Doc Searls, and David Weinberger
• Review of The Cathedral and the Bazaar by Eric Raymond
• Corporate-wide knowledge management -- breaking through the barriers today
• How to make chat work for your online business
• Building communities on the Internet
• Anonymity for fun and deception: The other side of community
• Identity, motivation, and community

Distance education

Beyond McLuhan -- many parallel media, and discussion, not message

Evaluating synchronous/real-time platforms for distance education

Why didn't the walls come tumbling down? An outsider's view of distance education

Toward a learning community/narket (A commentary on Crossing the Chasm by Geoffrey Moore)

Are participants born or made? Web-based discussion for distance education

How to make chat work for your online business

Training, Not Censorship The Road to Eden is Closed. Need for Cyber-Street-Smarts

Web page/site design

• How search engines distort Web page design and lead to the rise and fall of business models -- the price of "popularity"
• Redesign your site for the post-Minda era -- browsing behavior is changing; users have turned off java and active scripts
• Using stats to improve your Web site
• Make navigation easy for visitors and search engine crawlers: Build a sitemap page
• Misconceptions about "search engine optimization"
• Advice to a friend redesigning a company Web site
• What belongs on a Web page, and why?
• Web site style -- how to appeal to a general audience
• How to design Web pages without learning HTML
• Make your presentations in Internet, instead of PowerPoint
• Flypaper dialogue -- Making Web sites interactive without interactive software
• Degrees of separation: A design goal
• Who controls the context? Search Engines and the Fate of Carefully Constructed Web Sites

Advice for working at home

• Tips for working at home, for yourself
• Tips on getting organized -- building habits and using a Palm
• Tips on being a good boss when you work for yourself
• Tips on being a better employee when you work for yourself -- the power of "creative procrastination"

What's happening to book publishing?

• Blogging about Books -- Thoughts about books and publishing and other matters of interest to Richard Seltzer (on the Web, not on the CD -- updated every day)
• Thoughts on How Ebooks Can Change Our Lives
• Books on DVD
• The arrogance of Amazon
• Print industry vs. ecommerce -- trying to answer the wrong question
• To palm or not to palm? How to market ebooks: coping with format mania
• Print industry vs. ecommerce -- trying to answer the wrong question
• To palm or not to palm? How to market ebooks: coping with format mania
• Rethinking "books" and "ebooks" -- stating the obvious (which often seems to be ignored.)
• Half is more than enough -- another online retail business model
• The Internet and books -- transformation of an industry
• Let books grow -- implications of electronic books and print on demand
• The public domain and the World Wide Web -- Keep the Frontier Open
• Alternatives to traditional academic publishers
• Marketing the book vs. marketing the author -- the differing interests of authors and publishers
• An Author's View of Electronic Rights and the Public Domain

Web-based automatic translation

• Expanded translation capabilities at AltaVista's Babelfish site
• Making your site global -- taking advantage of free translation at AltaVista
• How to translate this page into French, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, or German

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Social implications of the Internet

• With voice for input and output, computing enters a new realm
• Internet Advice for Newcomers: Message to my old high school (Holderness School, Plymouth, NH)
• Suggestion -- No Frills Web Pages for Community Service Organizations
• All that Glitters -- If I had Bandwidth Enough and Time
• Will "The News" Go Away?
• The Evolution of Technology and the Internet
• The Internet and the Human Spirit
• The Associate Power -- This Ain't Kansas, Mr. Broadcaster
• Commerce, Democracy, and the Internet
• We Don't Need Cities Anymore Reflections on the Meaning of Commerce on the Internet
• Suggested Tactics for Building an Electronic Library

B&R Samizdat Express: Who we are and kudos

• B&R Samizdat Express
• Books on CD ROM (html)
• Rated "4 stars" by Magellan
• One of the 50 Best Web Sites in the World, according to Net Guide, September 1995
• The Best Personal Home Page of 1995, according to Internet World Magazine
• Can we help you build an Internet business?
• Who is Richard Seltzer?
• Benefits
• Testimonials
• Photo of Richard Seltzer

Internet-on-a-Disk (newsletter of electronic texts and Internet trends; every issue, starting Feb. 1994)

Internet-on-a-Disk #65, January 2006

• Off-the-Wall Ideas
• Web Notes
• New eBay Insights

Internet-on-a-Disk #64, August 2005

• Southwest Travelogue: an account of our recent vacation in Utah, Colorado, New Mexico, and Arizona, with travel recommendations
• Political Correctness Wins Out over Science: "Puebloan Ancestors" vs. Anasazi
• Theory of the kiva: Speculation about the Anasazi

Internet-on-a-Disk #63, July 2005

• Maybe we should rename Norfolk "Pearl Harbor 2" -- when well-meaning folks do bad things for good reasons
• Selling money -- An alternative to taxes
• If you could time-travel to the ancient world, could you make a difference?
• Why didn't southern plantation owners make Indians slaves?
• Alternate "War of the Worlds" plots
• Reinventing Football

• Google Desktop Search

A Day in the Life of a Surgeon, review of Saturday by Ian McEwan

Internet-on-a-Disk #62, November 2004

• Another Product that Doesn't Exist Yet, but Would be a Natural -- Oral Sex Toothpaste
• Second life idea for AOL -- become a gated community, at least for email
• Need for new kinds of baseball statistics
• Washington Monument as site for deep-underground bunker for president and Congress
• Service exchange as a way to finance long-term care
• Selling groceries by weight
• Likely scenario for the development of outspace -- private companies run space stations and cities on the moon
• Outsourcing government
• Bush may be far more intelligent than you ever imagined

• The joy of changing Web hosts
• PayPal's free shopping cart
• Tsunami -- an Alternative to Babelfish for free, fast, online translation

Internet-on-a-Disk #61, October 2004

• Suggested Slogan for Kerry -- "Fight Oil, Not Terrorism"
• A Product that Doesn't Exist Yet, but Would Be a Natural -- Perfume Remover
• Scalping for Charity

• Thoughts on How Ebooks Can Change Our Lives

Internet-on-a-Disk #60, September 2004

• Books on DVD
• Book CD of the Month
• Free Ebook of the Week

• Selling Your Own Stuff at eBay -- Updated Tips for Serious Sellers

Surviving as a Small Company in the Age of Google

• Off-the-wall ideas
• Creative financing for the Gulf War
• Articles
• The Arrogance of Amazon
• Going Fishing Again -- Testing Sitechatter as a way to hook customers

• Off-the-wall ideas
• Creative financing for the Gulf War
• Web notes
• Personal Anthologies
• Articles
• The Arrogance of Amazon
• Going Fishing Again -- Testing Sitechatter as a way to hook customers

• Off-the-wall ideas
• Could the "failure of diplomacy have been deliberate?
• Biological hacker
• Why not run government like a business? Citizens as shareholders rather than taxpayers
• Toward a "simple" society
• Articles
• Keep It Simple -- Use Low-tech Methods for Better Results at Low Cost
• Teleseminars -- using telephone concalls for marketing, training, and education
• Learn from online universities -- join them, don't fight them, and help transform education
• Dialogues with Readers
• link: at Google

• Off-the-wall ideas
• Learning from Mr. Sterling: Thoughts on campaign finance reform -- focus on reducing costs, instead of raising campaign funds
• Dust magnets -- the physics of household filth
• Web Notes
• Search results at Google
• Book reviews
The Bombast Transcripts by Christopher Locke, reviewed by Richard Seltzer
• Articles
• Forget key words

• Print industry vs. ecommerce -- trying to answer the wrong question
• Web site suggestions for bed and breakfasts
• "Google it" -- word of mouth makes household words
• Divergence and fragmentation of Internet activities and markets

• Keep it simple -- sometimes an ordinary list is more valuable than a database
• Hunting wild tunes and videos with Kazaa
• Group grope -- trying to get business benefit from Yahoo Groups

It's alive! Alive! -- XBox goes online

Web Notes

• IP addresses, SmartWhois, and learning more about your audience
• ReadPlease turns plain text books into talking books
• Ask Richard: free advice on Web design and marketing and free advice about writing and publishing fiction -- questions and "expert" answers
• Quick advice about Internet business
• Solutions to HiQ (AKA peg solitaire) and the continuing value of "flypaper" on the Web

• Smart Mobs by Howard Rheingold, mark this one "must read"

• Dialogue about metatags with important information about Google ranking

• eBay update -- what's changed over the last few years and how you can take advantage as a seller: details that pay
• Sailing into the wind -- real-time marketing navigation on the Web, Part 1 -- Price changes

Web Notes:

• Streaming to a monitor near you: Full-length full-screen mainstream movies
• Do you know where your traffic comes from?
• Internet nostalgia (remember the days when the Web was new and very few companies used it for business?)
• Reviews of Richard Seltzer Web Business Bootcamp

• Using Yoda to teach English

• Small Pieces Loosely Joined by David Weinberger

• Coping with email pollution -- viruses, scams and spam
• Clues to online success in today's down business environment

• B&R Samizdat Express
• Course about using books on CD ROM in the classroom
• Fiction by Roberta Kalechofsky

• Book reviews by Deane Rink
• Handy guide to events in New York City

• Mindlabs

• SiteChatter

• How to get the most out of books on CD ROM
• How search engines distort Web page design and lead to the rise and fall of business models -- the price of "popularity"
• With voice for input and output, computing enters a new realm

• Google's weakness and AltaVista's strength
• Coping with income tax and financial aid in 2002
• Building a store at Yahoo
• To palm or not to palm? coping with ebook format mania
• How to make money on the Web -- hypothetical example from the car rental business
• The Serge Solovieff mystery -- a WWI variant of the Spanish Prisoner scam
• Mercy Warren: Conscience of the American Revolution -- Review of her book "The Rise, Progress and Termination of the American Revolution"
• Movie Endings -- what works and when?

Commercial sponsorship of military units and vehicles :-)

Airlines, online shopping and focusing your business on what matters
Business model in motion -- Yaga offers an alternative to advertising for content-rich Web sites
The microphone may be mightier than the keyboard: business uses of speech recognition
A great way to get feedback -- but will anyone use it? Quick Topic Document Review
Building a business that can last

You Can't Take It With You. com, a business airline with no luggage and no carry-ons

Books, stories, poems, and artwork available for free in the Readers' Room and Writers' Showcase at B&RSamizdat Express
Books for pennies a piece on CD ROM (from Seedy Press books on CD)
Renascence Editions
Christian Ethereal Classics Library

Cyberwinds -- which way are the winds of change blowing?
Redesign your site for the post-Minda era -- browsing behavior is changing; users have turned off java and active scripts
Assessing Usability for People with Disabilities Through Remote Evaluation and Critical Incident Reporting by Mike Paciello
How to use content to attract traffic to your Web site, even when branding rules saddle you with a search-engine unfriendly design

Articles:

Yaga, Yaga do! -- P2P meets micropayments
Business opportunities for peer-to-peer (P2P) networks
Baseball -- the killer app for audio over the Internet
Beyond McLuhan -- many parallel media, and discussion -- no message
Message from Mongolia
PalTalk -- a free voice chat alternative for distance education and business
Evaluating synchronous/real-time platforms for distance education
Text chat choices

Free search dedicated to your Web site
Free automatic translation to and from dozens of languages
Automatic translation with free chat service

Audio-text books

Update on search engines
Rethinking "books" and "ebooks" -- stating the obvious (which often seems to be ignored.)
What free stuff is left and why? -- recommended sites
Free talk flourishes
Beyond banner ads: how to turn a newspaper audience into revenue
Half is more than enough -- half.com's online retail business model
Using stats to improve your Web site

from Bartleby
from Gutenberg

Articles --

Make navigation easy for visitors and search engine crawlers: Build a sitemap page

Search engine submissions -- links to the key pages

DSL vs. cable revisited -- Jan. 2001

Book Review -- Why great companies fail: The Innovator's Dilemma by Clayton Christensen and Living on theFault Line by Geoffrey Moore

New electronic texts -- from Gutenberg
Internet-on-a-Disk #44, December 2000
Articles

Banner ads are dead, long live online advertising
How businesses can capitalize on Java Puzzle Cards
Misconceptions about "search engine optimization"

Your private disk drive on the Web

Going fishing: hooking Web page visitors and turning them into customers
The New New Thing by Michael Lewis, a book review
Bridging wired and wireless, and putting the user in control New electronic texts -- from Gutenberg

Web Business Boot Camp
The Internet Archive

Javapuzzlecards
eBookIt

Make your presentations in Internet, instead of PowerPoint
Advice to a friend redesigning a company Web site
The leap to multimedia -- it all depends on disk space
Expanded translation capabilities at AltaVista's Babelfish site
Brief history of DEC's Internet Business Group

Learn to ask the right questions by Richard Seltzer
Web site style -- how to appeal to a general audience by Richard Seltzer
Barter and swapping sites -- an alternative to online auctions by Richard Seltzer
New electronic texts -- from Gutenberg

Use email to "beam" information to other palm users
Use live text chat to help your Web visitors
Get free voicemail

Start the day with the start of a good book

Let books grow -- implications of electronic books and print on demand by Richard Seltzer
Dialogue about the implications of epublishing and print on demand for authors and publishers -- Jeff VanderMeer, Jeff Thomas, and Richard Seltzer

High Stakes, No Prisoners by Ferguson

from Gutenberg

Weight and exercise, from Alfred Thompson

Off-the-wall ideas: Just can't weight? Trying to make sense of the relationship between exercise and weight loss
The Web and your palm -- sometimes less is more, when it's the right less by Richard Seltzer
Sync to people: building relationships palm-to-palm by Richard Seltzer
The Internet and books -- transformation of an industry by Richard Seltzer
Further thoughts about the Internet and books by Richard Seltzer
Many of today's "online publishers" are really just "online printers" by Richard Seltzer
New electronic texts: from Gutenberg

Survival of the startups - how to recruit the right people and build loyalty and create a motivating culture - who has time for this? by Richard Seltzer
What belongs on a Web page, and why? by Richard Seltzer
Tips for working at home, for yourself by Richard Seltzer
When progress is a step backward -- in praise of plain-text email by Richard Seltzer
New electronic texts: from Gutenberg

Web Notes: Becoming media
Turning Web traffic into revenue -- affiliate and related programs by Richard Seltzer
Brand names on the Web -- a raging success story by Richard Seltzer
New electronic texts: from Gutenberg

Building businesses on top of businesses -- the AuctionRover example by Richard Seltzer
Sales channels and the Web by Richard Seltzer
Internet lessons from London by Richard Seltzer
Thoughts about 3D on the Web by Richard Seltzer
Letters to the editor: Using the Internet to dialog with voters by Alfred Thompson
New electronic texts: from Gutenberg

Political web sites and community by Alfred C. Thompson II
Whatever happened to virtual companies? by Richard Seltzer
Web-site superglue -- the Nutrition Calculator at Healthwatch by Richard Seltzer
Content wars: video vs. text. Welcome to Lilliput, Mr. Gulliver. by Richard Seltzer
New electronic texts: from Gutenberg

Web Notes -- AltaVista, CompareItAll, iSyndicate, Learnlots, flypaper, Harry Potter, and free Internet access
Off-the-wall ideas -- URhell.com, baseball salaries, author chats
Feature articles:
3D Advertising by Mark Neely
Sprint marketing: what should you do when time is more important than money? by Richard Seltzer
Opportunities lost: trying to make sense of sprint marketing by Richard Seltzer
Book Review: The Cluetrain Manifesto by Rick Levine, Christopher Locke, David Weinberger, and Doc Searls
The importance of "listening" by Richard Seltzer
New electronic texts: from Gutenberg

Defining "Internet marketing" by Richard Seltzer
Book Review: Weaving the Web by Tim Berners-Lee
Experiment in participative democracy: car recalls by Richard Seltzer
Internet litmus test for candidates
Alternative to ISBN for electronic books

Varieties and value of content (spontaneous, crafted, and engineered) and how to turn content to value on the Internet by Richard Seltzer
How to make chat work for your online business by Richard Seltzer
Search engines and directories: when to use which by Richard Seltzer
New electronic texts -- from Gutenberg

DEC, not Digital -- -- the right thing to do: An experiment in human engineering by Richard Seltzer
Where the people are -- now it's Boston/New Hampshire by Richard Seltzer
Why didn't the walls come tumbling down? An outsider's view of distance education by Richard Seltzer
New electronic texts-- from Gutenberg

Web Notes -- B&R Samizdat Express
Business on the World Wide Web -- fall schedule for this chat program
DSL vs. cable for high-speed Internet access by Richard Seltzer
Business opportunities opened by high-speed Internet access by Richard Seltzer
Wireless Internet from a business perspective by Richard Seltzer
Here comes wireless -- watch out for the riptide by Richard Seltzer
New electronic texts -- from The Gutenberg Project

Advice for authors about electronic opportunities by Richard Seltzer
How not to do ecommerce: learning from the mistakes of others by Richard Seltzer
Book reviews --
Taking a fresh look at Durant's Story of Civilization, and thinking about the Internet
Making Sense of the Internet Business Environment, a review of 'The Great Disruption' by Francis Fukuyama
The Age of Spiritual Machines by Ray Kurzweil
The Border Trilogy by Cormac McCarthy
Steve Erickson's The Sea Came in at Midnight
New electronic texts -- from The Gutenberg Project
Letters to the editor

Curious Technology -- Linkbot
Web Notes -- Web sites I keep returning to, Tips on selling at Ebay
Off-the-wall ideas -- The Law of Collectibles
Content-based Internet Marketing by Richard Seltzer
Have you read or published an electronic book lately? by Richard Seltzer
Movie Review -- Random Thoughts on "Message from a Bottle" by Barbara Seltzer
Letters to the Editor -- Online Ambassadors, Generalists, Email Format
New Electronic Texts-- Gutenberg Project

Generalists needed, but not wanted by Richard Seltzer
It's getting really crazy -- now how do we compete? by Richard Seltzer
Random, variable discounts -- shopping the slot-machine way, one way to cope with the new Internet business environment by Richard Seltzer
Volunteer e-business ambassadors -- a way to go high touch without going broke by Richard Seltzer
Soundbytes from "Measuring and Improving Internet Marketing", an IQPC conference held in San Francisco, Jan. 13-14, 1999 by Richard Seltzer
Has the window closed for would-be online trading companies? And is it closing rapidly for other niches as well? Maybe not. by Richard Seltzer
Playing to win. Suggestions for transferring game techniques to the world of business. by Richard Seltzer
New electronic texts from the Gutenberg Project

Curious technology
Play vintage videogames on your PC, with free emulator software (Retrocade and Mame)
Downloading is a lot easier now than it was a year ago -- using SmartDownload
Web notes
Internet shopping
AltaVista PhotoFinder
E-Books will bring a new era of opportunity for writers/authors -- post-filtering instead of pre-filtering content by Jon Noring
Basic questions for developing an Internet business strategy by Richard Seltzer
Dharma and Greg and Internet business by Richard Seltzer
The two faces of Internet business: traditional and revolutionary by Richard Seltzer
Aim for more than just delivering training. Create a learning environment by Richard Seltzer
Off-the-wall ideas
The extraterrestrial descent of man? by Richard Seltzer
Reviews --
Unexpected gem -- Granta 64, Russia: The Wild East (added 11/29/98)
Love that quote: "A plenitude of information leads to a poverty of attention"
New electronic texts -- from the Gutenberg Project, the Internet Public Library, and PLEASE COPY THIS DISK
Letters to the Editor -- Making a Web site accessible for the blind

Web notes --
Automatic email updates to AltaVista queries (from TracerLock)
Reverse telephone lookup (from Anywho)
Changes to Advanced Search at AltaVista
Halloween strikes again -- the power of content for driving traffic to Web sites (added 11/2/98)
Please share your on-line shopping experiences (added 11/2/98)
Looking for jobs and consulting work (added 11/2/98)
Anyone need a consultant? I'm on my own now (added 11/2/98)
Portable electronic book readers by John Mark Ockerbloom
Recommended plug-ins and utilities by Tracy Marks
New electronic texts -- from the Gutenberg Project, from The Internet Public Library Online Texts Collection
Off-the-wall ideas
"Cultural citizenship" -- an alternative form of government made possible by the Internet by Richard Seltzer
Reply from Alfred C. Thompson
Castro, baseball, and a possible end to political conflict with Cuba -- by Richard Seltzer
Response from Larry Eldridge (retired sports editor of the Christian Science Monitor)
Baseball -- time for a rule change: from intentional walk to "home walk" -- by Richard Seltzer
Response from Larry Eldridge (retired sports editor of the Christian Science Monitor)
Why Clinton might resign -- by Richard Seltzer
Response from Alfred Thompson
Letters to the Editor
Marketing the book vs. marketing the author -- from Brett Hart
Asking for advice re: do-it-yourself Web hosting by cable modem -- from "martin--the birdscaper" and from Eric Eldred
Advice regarding anti-hate pledge -- from Denise Rogers

Curious technology -- Help Read, AltaVista Discovery, FaceWorks
New electronic texts -- from The Gutenberg Project
Modular distributed Web sites -- a kludge for personal and small business Web sites that offers richness and variety at no cost
Book Review -- Welcome to the revolution (Cybercorp by James Martin)
Do-it-yourself Web hosting -- some say it can't be done; others are doing it already
Letters to the Editor
Reactions to "Web hosting and cable modems"
Cable-company policies get in the way -- from Manny Wise
Linux PC at home using cable modem -- from Eric Eldred
Flies in the ointment -- from Jerry Green
DSL, not cable modems -- from Perry Schager
That is exactly what is happening -- from Jim Carroll
Cable modem connections are totally unsuitable for serious web hosting -- from Gabriel Ioan
Risks and hassles -- from Chris Cavallucci
Content becoming more relevant than presentation -- from Radu Hociung
50-meg Web site -- from Yvan Rivard
Reactions to Internet-on-a-Disk #23 -- from Eric Eldred
Automatic translation -- from Eric Eldred

Marketing the book vs. marketing the author -- the differing interests of authors and publishers
Courses anyone? From book to distance ed -- proposed course outlines
Associate/affiliate/referral programs and the old Internet culture
Promoting books on-line
Book Review -- How, but no clue of why (aol.com by Kara Swisher)
Book Review -- Machine-gun Larry: right on target (Essential Business Tactics for the Net by Larry Chase)
Web Notes
Finding live events and getting yours listed
Red Tide (an artist's site)
New Electronic Texts
from The Gutenberg Project, Renascence Editions, Edmund Spenser's Home Page, Biographies, The Naked Word, the CIA
Movie stuff
Sites for movie lovers
How to find movies on TV/cable
Business opportunity -- movie previews
Endings Then and Now -- from Taxi Driver to Silence of the Lambs
Off-the-wall ideas
Information sharing and communism
What price privacy?
Letters to the Editor
Why do you do it? -- Maxine Hartley
Web-based distribution -- Ken Laws
On-Line Communities -- Jared Bradley Goldstein
Web hosting and cable modems -- Jake Moskowitz and Jeff Field

Thoughts on branding on the Internet
No more excuses. Build your own personal Web site. It's time to experiment.
From Web-hosting back to do-it-yourself -- the likely impact of cable modems
Quick summary of current Internet trends
Comparing on-line shopping experiences -- getting better
Upcoming chat topics -- Business on the World Wide Web
Book Review -- Everything you need to do to MOO: guide to an alternative environment for on-line discussion, business communities, and distance education
MOO wishlist -- why not add a time dimension?
Book Review -- The death of demographics
Book Review -- How easy is it to build a business by building a virtual community?
Coping with discontinuous change
Off-the-wall ideas
Profile in courage
Venture capital and Christopher Columbus
Slavery and industrialization
The energy cycle
Revival of silent movies?
The evolutionary value of the speed of light and the distance of stars
Einsteinian space-time
World War II legacy
New electronic texts

Web notes-- Acunet Internet Commerce Services, Amazon.com Associates Program, Power Searching with AltaVista, Mainspring, The Elsop Webmaster Resource Center, Language Tags at AltaVista Search, Example of use of AltaVista, PriceScan -- Web-based computer price search engine, A Clue...to Internet Commerce by Dana Blankenthorn, Barcode Web, Windweaver, Center for International Legal Studies
Educational resources -- Study Web, LIVE FROM MARS, Empowerment Zone, Distance Education Clearinghouse, Online Class
Curious Technology -- AltaVista Search Personal eXtension 97, Cosmo Player, PGPcookie.cutter for Windows 95 and NT 4.0
Internet resources for the blind -- National Braille Press, dev-access mailing list
Reviews of Internet books -- Net Gain, Rules of the Net
Features
Building On-Line Communities by Alfred Thompson
What it Takes: Skills for Successful Communities by Richard Seltzer
Push? Maybe. Maybe Not. by Richard Seltzer
Speculation about the Effect of the Internet on the Economy by Richard Seltzer
Letters to and responses from the editor What Did You Learn from All that Reading? Updike's Rabbit Novels, How to Publicize a Web Site? Culture and Web-Site Design
What's new -- (etexts available on the Internet): B&R Samizdat Express, The Gutenberg Project, Naked World, Electronic Frontier Foundation, Screenwriters Utopian Home Page, MIT Press, On-Line Books Page new books listing, Accessing the Internet by Email, Moths to the Flame: The Seductions of Computer Technology, The Duke Papyrus Archive, The Secular Web (formerly called the Freethought Web), Russian Story - Russian Periodicals Online, CultureWork, Athena Pages, American Literary Classics - A Chapter a Day
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What's new -- (etexts available on the Internet): B&R Samizdat Express, The Gutenberg Project, Project Bartleby, Bibliomania, Macmillan's Que Books, CIA, Naked Word, Voice of the Shuttle, Zvi Har' El's Fairy Tales and Stories Site, Writers' Haven
Sources of info about copyright
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Web notes -- Amazon.com, Top 100 Electronic Recruiters, Mainspring
Friends on the Web-- Robin & Berthold Langer, Dave Stamps, Jack Rahaim, Dan Kalikow, Alfred Thompson
Educational resources -- LIVE FROM ANTARTICA 2, LIVE FROM MARS, Science Textbooks and Historical Science, Cybrary, Resources Pathways College Information Community,
Curious technology -- Live Topics at AltaVista Search, Voxware, Four11's Internet Phone and Video Phone Directories, MapQuest, Internet Classroom Assistant, WebEtc from Microtest
Internet resources for the disabled -- "Design Considerations: Readers with Visual Impairments," Empowerment Zone (employment info for the disabled), Yuri Rubinsky Insight Foundation
Features--
Internet Advice for Newcomers by Richard Seltzer
Training, Not Censorship -- The Road to Eden is Closed, Need for Cyber-Street-Smarts by Richard Seltzer
Flypaper Dialogue -- Making Web Sites Interactive without Interactive Software by Richard Seltzer
Toward a Learning Community/Market by Richard Seltzer
Another Look at the Future -- Divergence is the Next Challenge by Richard Seltzer
Letters to and responses from the editor -- Reaction to article "Internet Advice for Newcomers," Reaction to article "How to Make Business Chat Work," What is the market for electronic books? How do you make money? Advantages and disadvantages of intranets, What does "Samizdat" mean? Corelli's Mandolin

What's New (etexts available on the Internet): B&R Samizdat Express, The Gutenberg Project, The Bartleby Project, Bibliomania, Theology on the Web, The Tech Archive, Philosophers (The U. of Idaho), The Electronic Text Center at the University of Virginia, The Tolstoy Library, the Jules Verne Collection, The Screenwriters Utopian Home Page, Wordman Production Company, Macmillan Computer Publishing Online Books, Chalidze Publications, The Online Medieval and Classical Library, The Virtual Bookshelf, Book People
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Web Notes The Changing Face of Technology, Electronic Recruiting News, Mapping Your Future, CollegeBound.NET, Contact Center Network, Terra Chess, Live Computer Help, Lawguru.com, VersusLaw, Web Consultants Association, IBM Patent Server
Curious Non-Use of Technology Telephone over the Internet, Internet Fast Forward
Curious Technology Firefly, Site Watch, internet-now, Broadcaster, NewsMonger, LookSmart, Filez, Coola
Curious Business Models Millenium Interactive
Resources for the Disabled "Guidelines for Reporting and Writing about People with Disabilities", In Touch Network
Other Educational Resources Live from Antarctica 2, WebCT, Index of Resources for Historians, Al Bodzin's Home Page
Reviews of Internet Books
24 Hours in Cyberspace
Features:
How to Make "Business Chat" Work by Richard Seltzer
People with Disabilities Can't Access the Web! by Mike Paciello
Letters to & Responses from the Editor

What's New (etexts available on the Internet): B&R Samizdat Express, The Gutenberg Project, Internet World Magazine, Henry James Scholar's Guide, Bartleby Project, Bibliomania, Moby Lexicon Project
On-line Commercial Publishing Experiments Que Publishing, O'Reilly, Reality Software
Web Notes : Intranet, Health, Blindness/Disabilities, Telephone Etc. Directories, Government, Travel, Miscellaneous
Other Educational Resources : Copyright & Fair Use, Passport to Knowledge, UK Boarding Schools, CubaNet, MapQuest, Teaching about the Americas, Astronomy
Curious Technology : Faxes and Voicemail Delivered by Email (JFAX), Zap Banner Ads and Kill the Cookie Monster with Internet Fast Forward, More on Cookies and Other Insidious Traps, Free Email (HotMail and Juno)
The Joy of Being Found: What to Connect to Old Friends, Customers, Employers? Try Using Flypaper by Richard Seltzer
Suggestion -- No Frills Web Pages for Community Service Organizations by Richard Seltzer
Let Plain Text Take You to a Different World -- the Potential of MUD by Michael Andrew Clubine and Adriana Cristina Oliveri
Degrees of Separation: a Design Goal by Richard Seltzer
Letters to the Editor

What's New (etexts available on the Internet): B&R Samizdat Express, The Gutenberg Project, The Bartleby Project, Bibliomania (Data Text), Notre Dame, REESWeb, Oxford Archive
Web Notes : Context & Concept Filtering, First Steps: Marketing & Design Daily, Switchboard, Telstra, Four11, Liszt Directory, The Meaning of Life, Web Etiquette, Virtual Institute of Information, Union of International Associations, Web Digest for Marketers, Computerist Magazine
Other Educational Resources : Focus on Words, Student Book Reviews, Eco Travel in Latin America, New South African Constitution
Metasites: Boston.com, Travelocity, Matchpoint, Classified2000, Let's Talk Business, Mississippi River Home Page, Ireland On-Line, Hearthnet, Birmingham Assist, College Guides and Admissions
Places to Discuss Internet Marketing Issues: Business on the World Wide Web chat session, Asian Internet Marketing, Guerilla Marketing Online, Web Consultants mailing list, Intranut, Internet Marketing Communications mailing list, International Business Discussion Group, Internet-Sales Discussion List, Internet Developers Association, ISBC Business Discussion Group Newsletters, Abracadabra, Conference on Sales and Marketing via the Internet, Market-L List, CAN-IMARKET, Oracle-Agora, Marketplace
Curious Technology : EarthWeb Chat, Smart Bookmarks
Low-Tech Web-Page Design by Richard Seltzer
Advertising on the Internet -- Is it Worth the Price? by Alfred Thompson
Letters to the Editor

What's New (etexts available on the Internet) -- B&R Samizdat, The Gutenberg Project, Electronic Frontier Foundation, E-Literate Enterprises, Basement Full of Books, Vile Goller/ Fine Arts Printing
Web Notes -- net.radio, Amish Paradise, SubmitAll, wURLd Presence, International Union of Gospel Missions, Asian Internet Marketing, FindLaw
Update on Metasites -- Village Group, ArchitectsOnline, Canadian Real Estate Association, The HomeScout Guide
Educational Resources -- African Literature, Live from the Hubble Space Telescope, Monster Exchange Project, Web66, Latitude28 Schoolhouse, H-net (Humanities and Social Sciences), Vietnam: Yesterday and Today, The Biology Place
Curious Technology -- Netcharger, VDOPhone, DialWeb, A-Mail
Features
All that Glitters -- If I Had Bandwidth Enough and Time by Richard Seltzer, plus responses from Mike Macomber, Alfred Thompson, and Vijay Mukhi
The Internet Software Tug-of-War by Richard Seltzer, plus response from Russ Jones
The Web and People with Disabilities: Cutting Edge Developments by Michael Paciello
Letters to the Editor

What's New (etexts available on the Internet) -- B&R Samizdat, Gutenberg, Edward Lear's Nonsense, Drew's Scripts-O-Rama, Into the Wardrobe, On-Line Books Page
Web-Based PC Support?
Web Notes -- Expertspace, Internet Business Network, Ecola's Newsstand, Searchable list of discussion mailing lists, NetTax '96, Akropolis Arts Magazine
Other Educational Resources -- K-12 Administrator's Connection, Bosnia Page, H-NET, The Book Nook
Features:
Just Enough Quality -- Richard Seltzer
Up-Dating the Circles Model: Value-Added Internet Services -- Richard Seltzer
The AltaVista Revolution -- Richard Seltzer
Making the Web Accessible for the Deaf, Hearing and Mobility Impaired -- Mike Paciello
Are Participants Born or Made? The Potential of Web-Based Discussion for Distance Education -- Richard Seltzer
Letters to the Editor

What's new -- B&R Samizdat, Gutenberg, Edmunds Spenser, Douglas Adams, Unofficial Internet Public Domain Index,Unofficial Internet Public Domain Index, Basement Full of Books, Omnimedia, Association of Research Libraries, World Anonymous ftp sites
Web notes -- Open Text, Scout Report, B&R Samizdat, Real Results, Zip codes from US Postal Service, Brain Treatment Center, BargainFinder, InterLotto from the government of Liechtenstein
Other educational resources -- 1995 CIA World Factbook, Live from the Hubble Telescope, Bioblast Project, K-12 Opportunities from Global SchoolNet, Voices of Youth Project from UNICEF, Galileo -- Online from Jupiter, Primary Destination New Hampshire from Foster's Dailly Democrat
Curious Technology -- WWW Homepage Creation Center from The-Inter.Net, VDOLive, StreamWorks from Xing Technology Corp.
Features
Video and the Internet -- Richard Seltzer
Will the "news" go away? -- Richard Seltzer
The evolution of technology and the Internet -- Richard Seltzer
Who controls the context? Search engines and the fate of carefully contructed Web sites -- Richard Seltzer
Letters to the editor

What's new -- B&R Samizdat Express, Gutenberg Project, Edward Beach, The Seven by Nine Squares
Web notes -- Central Source Yellow Pages, Travel Time Trip Planner, EnviroLink Network, MendelWeb, Trace Research and Development Center, Web Digest for Marketers, The Internet Index from Win Treese, Family pages or "Cyberhomes"
Other educational 4esources -- Primary Destination New Hampshire, from Foster's Daily Democrat in Dover, NH and Digital Equipment Corporation, Quest! Home of NASA's K-12 Internet Initiative, Live from the Stratosphere, Washington Social Studies, International Honors Program, Newton's Apple, The Armchair Scientist
Curious technology -- Free Services Page from NetMind, Free Services Page from NetMind, NetBuddy from Internet Solutions, Tiger Map Service, Excite, Webwhacker from Forefront Group, Netscape Navigator 2.0 (beta) from Netscape, Workgroup Web Forum from Digital Equipment Corp.
New business models -- Cartoonist by-passes syndicators (Borderline Cartoon Archive), A new kind of advertising (Webconnect)
How do you define success? The Real Results Directory
Features:
"Hit-Vitations" -- What's going on? And how do you play this game? -- Richard Seltzer
How to publicize a new Web site over the Internet -- Richard Seltzer (updated version)
Movies notes: Lost in Cyber Space -- My Very Personal Reaction to "Hackers"
Letters to the editor

The Way of the Web (poem) -- Richard Seltzer
What's new -- B&R Samizdat, Gutenberg, Richard Bear, Banned Books Online, Scott "Omar" Davis, Christian Classics Ethereal Library, Mississippi State University, U.S. Department of Labor
Incredible! We made the "top 50" list of Web sites
Web notes -- Welford and Wickham Primary School in Berkshire, England; the Lenox Group; Foster's Daily Democrat in Dover, NH and Digital Equipment Corp.; Gargoyle fans; four sites devoted to Ethiopian culture and history
Other educational resources -- EdWeb, Net-Happenings, Distance Learning Library
Curious technology -- Jazz drive, Crayon, Experimental Search Tool from Steve Glassman at Digital Equipment, Submit It
Book notes -- Desire for the Land by Richard Bear
Movie notes -- Just enough tech: "The Net" works well
Features
Will the real Tomorrowland please step forward? -- Richard Seltzer
Making the Web accessible for the blind and visually impaired -- Mike Paciello
And the blind shall lead them: New ways to perceive cyberspace -- Richard Seltzer
Letters to the editor

What's new -- B&R Samizdat, Gutenberg Project, Richard Bear, Data Text, Project Bartleby, United Nations, Electronic Text Center at U. of Virginia, Contemporary American Poetry Archive, Reality Software, Sam Sternberg, Gary Kline
Web notes -- Zip codes from US Postal Service, National Institutes of Health, Internet Chess Club, sites devoted to the blind and disabled
Other educational resources -- Live from the Stratosphere
Curious technology -- RealAudio, Zip drive
Feature -- Hey, that's your picture -- Web pages as tools for recognition and motivation -- Richard Seltzer
Book note -- Being Digital by Nicholas Negroponte
Movie note -- Johnny Mnemonic: forget it
Letters to the editor

What's new -- B&R Samizdat, Gutenberg Project, Project Libellus, Data Text, Project Bartleby, U. of Pennsylvania, La Bibliotheque d'ABU, United Nations, Radio Free Europe, The Online World
Web notes -- Yahoo, Children's Literature Web Guide, Smithsonian Institute, James Joyce in Cyberspace, Mark Twain Library, Hillside Elementary in Minnesota, Mark Lottor of Network Wizards, Proyecto Cervantes, Amistad Research Center, Tarlton Law School, Montgomery County Pennsylvania
Curious technology -- Vocaltech, Electric Magic
Feature -- The associative power: This ain't Kansas, Mr. Broadcaster -- Richard Seltzer
Letters to the editor

What's new -- Gutenberg, Live from Antarctica, Data Text, Freethought Web
Web notes -- Hillside Elementary, Library of Congress: Thomas, Montgomery County Pennsylvania
Curious technology -- converting HTML to plain text, converting files to HTML, hypermail
Readership: who's out there
Feature -- The Internet and the human spirit -- Richard Seltzer
Hope for the disabled -- Microsoft opens Windows for the blind

What's new -- Gutenberg Project, Stony Run Farm
Web notes -- United Nations, US House of Representatives, Yahoo, Greenwood Publishing, U. of Michigan Press, Gordon Joly
Curious technology -- Modus Internet, Vocaltech,
Using electronic texts in schools
Feature -- Commerce, democracy, and the Internet -- Richard Seltzer

What's new -- Gutenberg Project, Live from Antarctica, CIA, Classics site, Proyecto Cervantes, Roadmap from Patrick Crispen
Web notes -- Yahoo, Lycos, Digital Equipment, Gleason Sackman, Canada's Schoolnet, IRS, UK Treasury, Wall St. Journal, Taylor Road Middle School, Internet Mall, California Virtual Tourist, chess on the Web
Curious technology -- SlipKnot, Web FAX
Features
We don't need cities anymore: Reflections ont he meaning of commerce on the Internet -- Richard Seltzer
Lynx means access to the World Wide Web for the blind -- Richard Seltzer
Lynx letters

What's new -- Gutenberg Project, Wiretap, Association des Bibliophiles Universels, Country Studies on World-Wide Web from Library of Congress, U.S. Army Area Handbooks, United Nations
Web notes -- Netscape browser, Yahoo, search tools, White House, California election, Britannica
Features --
Eureka! I can run a Web server from my PC at home with an ordinary modem and SLIP account -- Richard Seltzer
Cataloging the Internet -- Richard Seltzer
Hey, this is great. But how can I use it -- Richard Seltzer

What's new -- Gutenberg Project, Wiretap, Libellus Project, Oxford Archive, Diana collection of human rights resources, Congressional Quarterly, Legal Information Institute (Cornell), Marvell Comics, Spunk Press, Alex Catalog of Texts, Directory of e-text centers, Novel in Progress
Features
Diskette power -- Richard Seltzer
Alternatives to traditional academic publishers -- Richard Seltzer
Letters to the editor

What's new -- Gutenberg Project, Wiretap, US Dept. of Education, The Fourth World Documentation Project, Baha'i World Centre
Features
Suggested tactics for building an electronic library -- Richard Seltzer
Clarification: Authors and the Internet -- Richard Seltzer
The Internet: A new dimension -- Richard Seltzer

What's new -- Gutenberg Project, US Dept. of Education, NATO, Helsinki City Library, Project Runeberg
Landmarks -- Elementary schools on the Web, Peru (in Spanish) on the Web
Feature -- An author's view of electronic rights and the public domain -- Richard Seltzer

What's new -- Gutenberg Project, Wiretap, Oxford Archive, Libellus Project, Electronic Frontier Foundation, US Dept. of Education, University of Maryland, NATO
Feature -- Open Texts: A rallying cry for schools and libraries -- Richard Seltzer

What's new -- Gutenberg Project, Wiretap, Oxford Archive, Electronic Frontier Foundation, White House, US Dept. of Education, U. of Pennsylvania, Case Western Reserve University, NATO
Feature -- The public domain and the World Wide Web: Keep the frontier open -- Richard Seltzer

BOOKS

Take Charge of Your Web Site (originally published by MightyWords, 2001)

• Introduction: My Web site was supposed to bring me new business. Help!
• Chapter 1: What you can do to fix your existing site

related articles:
• "The power of words on the Internet -- Content-based Internet marketing"

"What belongs on a Web page, and why?"
"Advice to a friend redesigning a company Web site"
"How to use content to attract traffic to your Web site, even when branding rules saddle
you with a search-engine unfriendly design"
"The leap to multimedia -- It all depends on disk space"
"The future of the Internet and the future of business"
• Chapter 2: How to build free Web pages

related articles:
• "How to Design Web pages without learning HTML"
• "The Content Question -- Okay, I have Web space. Now what am I going to put there?"
• "Who Owns What?" [the copyright question]
• "How to Build a Personal Web Site -- the Broader Implications of Search Engines"
• Chapter 3: How to publicize your Web site

related articles:
• "Search engines and directories: when to use which"
• "Tutorial: How to find and be found on the Internet"
• "Misconceptions about 'search engine optimization"
• "Make navigation easy for visitors and search engine crawlers: Build a sitemap page"
• "Search engine submissions -- links to the key pages"
• "How to publicize your Web site over the Internet"
• "How to make chat work for your online business"
• "Going fishing -- hooking Web page visitors and turning them into customers"
• "Using stats to improve your site" www.samizdat.com/stats.html

The Social Web: how to build a successful personal or business Web site (1997, 1998).

• From "Flypaper" to Social Web (preface)
• Let People Find You -- Putting "Flypaper" to Work (introduction)
• Basic Building Blocks of the Social Web (chapter 1)
• How to Design Web Pages Without Learning HTML (chapter 2)
• The Content Question -- Okay, I have Web space. Now what am I going to put there? (chapter 3)
• Who Owns What? (chapter 4)
• How to Build a Personal Web Site -- the Broader Implications of Search Engines (chapter 5)
• How to publicize your Web site over the Internet (chapter 6)
• Making your site global -- taking advantage of free translation at AltaVista (chapter7)

The Way of the Web  lessons from the Internet -- how to adapt to the new business environment (1995).

• Epigraph -- "The Way of the Web"
• Will the Real Tomorrowland Please Step Forward?" (Introduction)
• The Giants Wore Velcro on their Shoulders (Chapter 1)
• Wake Up: Tomorrow Happened Yesterday (Chapter 2)
• What's the Razor and What's the Razor Blade (Chapter 3)
• Curious Technology (Chapter 4)
• Building Communities on the Internet (Chapter 5)
• And the Blind Shall Lead Them: New Ways to Perceive Cyberspace (Chapter 6)
• Anonymity for Fun and Deception: The Other Side of Community (Chapter 7)
• Identity, Motivation, and Community (Chapter 8)

• IntroductionWhy shop Online?
• Part One covers aspects of online shopping that apply no matter what you want to buy.
• Chapter One covers the basics -- how to find your way to the online stores you want by way of the paths that others have laid out for you.
• Chapter Two provides the information you need to become an independent shopper, using search engines and price-comparison sites, and auctions.
• Chapter Threegives you pointers on advanced techniques, which can help you become a creative shopper -- sharing experiences with and getting advice from other shoppers, and becoming a full member of the online community.
• Part 2 covers special cases, where there are major differences in how you shop based on the kinds of things you are looking for:
• Chapter Four -- books, music, and videotapes
• Chapter Five -- computers and software
• Chapter Six -- travel
• Chapter Seven -- food
• Chapter Eight -- money, including loans, insurance, and investments
• Chapter Nine -- cars
• Chapter Ten -- real estate, including houses, apartments, and roommates
• More shopping ideas and resources (the appendices)
• Bio of the author and why he wrote this book
• Acknowledgements and thank you's

Internet business trends

• The microphone may be mightier than the keyboard: business uses of speech recognition
• Business model in motion -- Yaga offers an alternative to advertising for content-rich Web sites
• A great way to get feedback -- but will anyone use it? Quick Topic Document Review
• Cyberwinds -- which way are the winds of change blowing?
• Redesign your site for the post-Minda era -- browsing behavior is changing; users have turned off java and active scripts
• Yaga, Yaga do! -- P2P meets micropayments
• Baseball -- the killer app for audio over the Internet
• Text chat choices
• Message from Mongolia
• Beyond McLuhan -- many parallel media, and discussion, not message
• Evaluating synchronous/real-time platforms for distance education
• PalTalk -- a free voice chat alternative for distance education and business
• Business opportunities for peer-to-peer (P2P) networks
• Rethinking "books" and "ebooks" -- stating the obvious (which often seems to be ignored.)
• Free talk flourishes
• Beyond banner ads: how to turn a newspaper audience into revenue
• What free stuff is left and why? Recommended sites
• Half is more than enough -- half.com's online retail business model
• Banner ads are dead, long live online advertising
• How businesses can capitalize on Java Puzzle Cards
• Going fishing -- hooking Web page visitors and turning them into customers
• Your private disk drive on the Web -- MangoMind from MangoSoft
• The leap to multimedia -- it all depends on disk space
• The future of the Internet and the future of business
• Survival of the startups - how to recruit the right people and build loyalty and create a motivating - who has time for this?
• The Internet and books -- transformation of an industry
• Learn to ask the right questions
• The Web and your palm -- sometimes less is more, when it's the right less
• Bridging wired and wireless, and putting the user in control
• Sync to people: building relationships palm-to-palm
• Brand names on the Web -- a raging success story (about Raging Search)
• Turning Web traffic into revenue -- affiliate and related programs
• Another look at the future -- divergence is the next challenge
• When progress is a step backward -- in praise of plain-text email
• Make your presentations in Internet, instead of PowerPoint
• Building businesses on top of businesses -- the AuctionRover example
• Thoughts about 3D on the Web
• Internet lessons from London
• Web-site superglue -- the Nutrition Calculator at Healthwatch
• Sales channels and the Web
• Whatever happened to virtual companies?
• Wireless Internet from a business perspective
• Business opportunities opened by high-speed access
• DSL vs. cable for high-speed Internet access
• Video and the Internet
• Just Enough Quality
• The Internet Software Tug of War
• Updating the Circles Model -- Value-Added Internet Services
• Scanning for gold -- Experiences in the global electronic environment

Online shopping/selling

• Building a store at Yahoo
• Airlines, online shopping and focusing your business on what matters
• Thoughts about 3D on the Web
• Barter and swapping sites -- an alternative to online auctions
• Half is more than enough -- half.com's online retail business model
• Online shopping lessons from the holidays
• What's all the fuss? Putting online credit card security into perspective.
• Shopping for gifts: help in buying things you'd never buy for yourself
• The right stores for extraordinary gifts: personal favorites and advice
• Shopping for what you wish money could buy: health, fitness, and beauty, Part One: Coping with illness
• Shopping for what you wish money could buy: health, fitness, and beauty, Part Two: Wellness -- exercise, diet, and nutrition to get in shape, feel better, live longer, and look better
• Looking good no matter how you feel -- Shopping for cosmetics
• Buying prescription medicines online
• Web-site superglue -- the Nutrition Calculator at Healthwatch
• Web-based relief for tax-time headaches
• Shopping for a summer vacation: when you want to buy a dream
• Buying tickets for live events -- What to do when you absolutely, positively want to be scalped

Advice for online auction sellers

• Are you an online auction addict? If not, here's why and how to become one.
• Guide to eBay for sellers -- practical advice from one seller to another
• More practical advice for sellers at auctions -- the devil in the details
• Building businesses on top of businesses -- the AuctionRover example
• Barter and swapping sites -- an alternative to online auctions

• Building (and Protecting) Your Reputation as a Seller
• Getting to know them -- Part 1: Understanding the needs of dealers, collectors, and fans
• Getting to know them -- Part 2: Dealing with dealers and collectors
• Getting to know them -- Part 3: Understanding the buying patterns of fans
• Getting to know them -- Part 4: How to get buyers to reveal their interests
• Make-to-sell -- can this model work for online auctions? Another instance of the value of getting to know your customers
• Building your own Web pages to help you buy/sell at auctions Part 1: What are your options?
• Building your own Web pages to help you sell at auctions Part 2: Keep it simple and focus on what will help buyers find you
• Building your own Web pages to help you sell at auctions Part 3: Letting people find you through search engines and directories
• Building your own Web pages to help you sell at auctions Part 4: Talk it up
• Record keeping for auction sellers Part 1: Learning how to mine gold efficiently
• Record keeping for auction sellers Part 2: Practical tips for taking care of tedious details
• Record keeping for auction sellers Part 3: Yes, Virginia, there is an IRS
• Record keeping for auction sellers Part 4: Getting ready for tax time
• Timing your Auctions -- When to start your auctions to get the most bids, and how to do it
• What's it worth?
• Entering the gray zone: Be creative but watch your step. Do's and don'ts of off-line sales
• Using auctions to promote your business -- Listings as advertising/marketing messages
• Auction selling for market research and ecommerce lessons
• Setting starting prices for your auctions
• Managing your auctions to sell more profitably -- posting auctions with "inventory"
• Managing your auctions to sell more profitably -- using image hosting, scheduling, and "closed auctions"
• Encouraging bids -- focus on price and description
• Encouraging bids the creative way
• Are refunds and guarantees overkill?
• Refunds and guarantees -- psychology and convenience
• What's the meaning of "auctioneer" on the Internet? Misunderstanding leads to "licensing" problems
• Turning "pro"-- when your online sales become a "business," you need to check and comply with local laws and regulations
• Do you have to pay auction fees with credit cards?
• Tips on getting organized -- building habits and using a Palm
• Tips on being a good boss when you work for yourself
• Tips on being a better employee when you work for yourself -- the power of "creative procrastination"

Internet search -- how to find and how to be found

How to find and be found on the Internet. Richard originally wrote this detailed tutorial as the script of three-hour seminar given dozens of times. In 2000, as a consultant, he expanded and revised the Advanced Search portions for posting at the AltaVista site in 2000. Since then he has continued to revise and expand the entire documents for posting at his own site, www.samizdat.com and inclusion here.

Articles by Richard Seltzer:

• How to use content to attract traffic to your Web site, even when branding rules saddle you with a search-engine unfriendly design
• Redesign your site for the post-Minda era -- browsing behavior is changing; users have turned off java and active scripts
• Search engine update (March 2001)
• Search engine submissions -- links to the key pages
• Misconceptions about "search engine optimization"
• Search, Compare, and Bid--Finding What You Want on Your Own chapter from the book Shop Online the Lazy Way
• Search engines and directories: when to use which
• Make navigation easy for visitors and search engine crawlers: Build a sitemap page
• Brand names on the Web -- a raging success story (about Raging Search)
• Original AltaVista article, "The Alta Vista Revolution" published in Internet-on-a-Disk back in January 1996.

• Flypaper: how to draw traffic to your Web pages
• From "Flypaper" to Social Web (preface to the book The Social Web)
• Let People Find You -- Putting "Flypaper" to Work (introduction to the book The Social Web)
• The Joy of Being Found: Want to Connect with Old Friends, Customers, Employer? Try using Flypaper
• Flypaper Dialogue -- Making Web Sites Interactive Without Interactive Software
• Flypaper examples (from tutorial "How to find and be found on the Internet")

Internet marketing

• Airlines, online shopping and focusing your business on what matters
• Building a business that can last
• The power of words on the Internet -- content-based Internet marketing
• Going fishing -- hooking Web page visitors and turning them into customers
• Misconceptions about "search engine optimization"
• What belongs on a Web page, and why?
• Web site style -- how to appeal to a general audience
• Content wars: video vs. text. Welcome to Lilliput, Mr. Gulliver.
• Varieties of content (spontaneous, crafted, and engineered) and how to turn content into value
• Defining "Internet marketing"
• Sprint marketing: what should you do when time is more important than money?
• Opportunities lost: trying to make sense of sprint marketing
• 'Hit-Vitations': What's Going On? And How Do You Play This Game?
• Flypaper: how to draw traffic to your Web pages
• How to publicize a new web site over the Internet

Community and collaboration

• Chatterbox -- a new alternative for voice chat
• Quick advice for managing members-only online discussion
• Text chat choices
• Evaluating synchronous/real-time platforms for distance education
• Advanced techniques--Becoming a Creative Online Shopperchapter from the book Shop Online the Lazy Way
• The importance of "listening"
• Review of The Cluetrain Manifestoby Rick Levine, Christopher Locke, Doc Searls, and David Weinberger
• Review of The Cathedral and the Bazaar by Eric Raymond
• Corporate-wide knowledge management -- breaking through the barriers today
• How to make chat work for your online business
• Building communities on the Internet
• Anonymity for fun and deception: The other side of community
• Identity, motivation, and community

Distance education

Web page/site design

• Redesign your site for the post-Minda era -- browsing behavior is changing; users have turned off java and active scripts
• Using stats to improve your Web site
• Make navigation easy for visitors and search engine crawlers: Build a sitemap page
• Misconceptions about "search engine optimization"
• Advice to a friend redesigning a company Web site
• What belongs on a Web page, and why?
• Web site style -- how to appeal to a general audience
• How to design Web pages without learning HTML
• Make your presentations in Internet, instead of PowerPoint
• Flypaper dialogue -- Making Web sites interactive without interactive software
• Degrees of separation: A design goal
• Who controls the context? Search Engines and the Fate of Carefully Constructed Web Sites

Advice for working at home

• Tips for working at home, for yourself
• Tips on getting organized -- building habits and using a Palm
• Tips on being a good boss when you work for yourself
• Tips on being a better employee when you work for yourself -- the power of "creative procrastination"

What's happening to book publishing?

Internet-on-a-Disk (newsletter of electronic texts and Internet trends; every issue, starting Feb. 1994)

Internet-on-a-Disk #65, January 2006

• Off-the-Wall Ideas by Richard Seltzer, seltzer@samizdat.com
• Web Notes by Richard Seltzer, seltzer@samizdat.com
• New eBay Insights by Richard Seltzer, seltzer@samizdat.com

Internet-on-a-Disk #64, August 2005

• Southwest Travelogue: an account of our recent vacation in Utah, Colorado, New Mexico, and Arizona, with travel recommendations
• Political Correctness Wins Out over Science: "Puebloan Ancestors" vs. Anasazi
• Theory of the kiva: Speculation about the Anasazi

Internet-on-a-Disk #63, July 2005

• Maybe we should rename Norfolk "Pearl Harbor 2" -- when well-meaning folks do bad things for good reasons
• Selling money -- An alternative to taxes
• If you could time-travel to the ancient world, could you make a difference?
• Why didn't southern plantation owners make Indians slaves?
• Alternate "War of the Worlds" plots
• Reinventing Football

• Google Desktop Search

A Day in the Life of a Surgeon, review of Saturday by Ian McEwan

Internet-on-a-Disk #62, November 2004

• Another Product that Doesn't Exist Yet, but Would be a Natural -- Oral Sex Toothpaste
• Second life idea for AOL -- become a gated community, at least for email
• Need for new kinds of baseball statistics
• Washington Monument as site for deep-underground bunker for president and Congress
• Service exchange as a way to finance long-term care
• Selling groceries by weight
• Likely scenario for the development of outspace -- private companies run space stations and cities on the moon
• Outsourcing government
• Bush may be far more intelligent than you ever imagined

• The joy of changing Web hosts
• PayPal's free shopping cart
• Tsunami -- an Alternative to Babelfish for free, fast, online translation

Internet-on-a-Disk #61, October 2004

• Suggested Slogan for Kerry -- "Fight Oil, Not Terrorism"
• A Product that Doesn't Exist Yet, but Would Be a Natural -- Perfume Remover
• Scalping for Charity

• Thoughts on How Ebooks Can Change Our Lives

Internet-on-a-Disk #60, September 2004

• Books on DVD
• Book CD of the Month
• Free Ebook of the Week

• Selling Your Own Stuff at eBay -- Updated Tips for Serious Sellers

Surviving as a Small Company in the Age of Google

• Off-the-wall ideas
• Creative financing for the Gulf War
• Articles
• The Arrogance of Amazon
• Going Fishing Again -- Testing Sitechatter as a way to hook customers

• Off-the-wall ideas
• Creative financing for the Gulf War
• Web notes
• Personal Anthologies
• Articles
• The Arrogance of Amazon
• Going Fishing Again -- Testing Sitechatter as a way to hook customers

• Off-the-wall ideas
• Could the "failure of diplomacy have been deliberate?
• Biological hacker
• Why not run government like a business? Citizens as shareholders rather than taxpayers
• Toward a "simple" society
• Articles
• Keep It Simple -- Use Low-tech Methods for Better Results at Low Cost
• Teleseminars -- using telephone concalls for marketing, training, and education
• Learn from online universities -- join them, don't fight them, and help transform education
• Dialogues with Readers
• link: at Google

• Off-the-wall ideas
• Learning from Mr. Sterling: Thoughts on campaign finance reform -- focus on reducing costs, instead of raising campaign funds
• Dust magnets -- the physics of household filth
• Web Notes
• Search results at Google
• Book reviews
The Bombast Transcripts by Christopher Locke, reviewed by Richard Seltzer
• Articles
• Forget key words

• Print industry vs. ecommerce -- trying to answer the wrong question
• Web site suggestions for bed and breakfasts
• "Google it" -- word of mouth makes household words
• Divergence and fragmentation of Internet activities and markets

• Keep it simple -- sometimes an ordinary list is more valuable than a database
• Hunting wild tunes and videos with Kazaa
• Group grope -- trying to get business benefit from Yahoo Groups

It's alive! Alive! -- XBox goes online

Web Notes

• IP addresses, SmartWhois, and learning more about your audience
• ReadPlease turns plain text books into talking books
• Ask Richard: free advice on Web design and marketing and free advice about writing and publishing fiction -- questions and "expert" answers
• Quick advice about Internet business
• Solutions to HiQ (AKA peg solitaire) and the continuing value of "flypaper" on the Web

• Smart Mobs by Howard Rheingold, mark this one "must read"

• Dialogue about metatags with important information about Google ranking

• eBay update -- what's changed over the last few years and how you can take advantage as a seller: details that pay
• Sailing into the wind -- real-time marketing navigation on the Web, Part 1 -- Price changes

Web Notes:

• Streaming to a monitor near you: Full-length full-screen mainstream movies
• Do you know where your traffic comes from?
• Internet nostalgia (remember the days when the Web was new and very few companies used it for business?)
• Reviews of Richard Seltzer Web Business Bootcamp

• Using Yoda to teach English

• Small Pieces Loosely Joined by David Weinberger

• Coping with email pollution -- viruses, scams and spam
• Clues to online success in today's down business environment

• B&R Samizdat Express
• Course about using books on CD ROM in the classroom
• Fiction by Roberta Kalechofsky

• Book reviews by Deane Rink
• Handy guide to events in New York City

• Mindlabs

• SiteChatter

• How to get the most out of books on CD ROM
• How search engines distort Web page design and lead to the rise and fall of business models -- the price of "popularity"

With voice for input and output, computing enters a new realm

• Google's weakness and AltaVista's strength
• Coping with income tax and financial aid in 2002
• Building a store at Yahoo
• To palm or not to palm? coping with ebook format mania
• How to make money on the Web -- hypothetical example from the car rental business
• The Serge Solovieff mystery -- a WWI variant of the Spanish Prisoner scam
• Mercy Warren: Conscience of the American Revolution -- Review of her book "The Rise, Progress and Termination of the American Revolution"
• Movie Endings -- what works and when?

Commercial sponsorship of military units and vehicles :-)

Airlines, online shopping and focusing your business on what matters
Business model in motion -- Yaga offers an alternative to advertising for content-rich Web sites
The microphone may be mightier than the keyboard: business uses of speech recognition
A great way to get feedback -- but will anyone use it? Quick Topic Document Review
Building a business that can last

You Can't Take It With You. com, a business airline with no luggage and no carry-ons

Books, stories, poems, and artwork available for free in the Readers' Room and Writers' Showcase at B&RSamizdat Express
Books for pennies a piece on CD ROM (from Seedy Press books on CD)
Renascence Editions
Christian Ethereal Classics Library

Cyberwinds -- which way are the winds of change blowing?
Redesign your site for the post-Minda era -- browsing behavior is changing; users have turned off java and active scripts
Assessing Usability for People with Disabilities Through Remote Evaluation and Critical Incident Reporting by Mike Paciello
How to use content to attract traffic to your Web site, even when branding rules saddle you with a search-engine unfriendly design

Articles:

Yaga, Yaga do! -- P2P meets micropayments
Business opportunities for peer-to-peer (P2P) networks
Baseball -- the killer app for audio over the Internet
Beyond McLuhan -- many parallel media, and discussion -- no message
Message from Mongolia
PalTalk -- a free voice chat alternative for distance education and business
Evaluating synchronous/real-time platforms for distance education
Text chat choices

Free search dedicated to your Web site
Free automatic translation to and from dozens of languages
Automatic translation with free chat service

Audio-text books

Update on search engines
Rethinking "books" and "ebooks" -- stating the obvious (which often seems to be ignored.)
What free stuff is left and why? -- recommended sites
Free talk flourishes
Beyond banner ads: how to turn a newspaper audience into revenue
Half is more than enough -- half.com's online retail business model
Using stats to improve your Web site

from Bartleby
from Gutenberg

Articles --

Make navigation easy for visitors and search engine crawlers: Build a sitemap page

Search engine submissions -- links to the key pages

DSL vs. cable revisited -- Jan. 2001

Book Review -- Why great companies fail: The Innovator's Dilemma by Clayton Christensen and Living on theFault Line by Geoffrey Moore

New electronic texts -- from Gutenberg
Internet-on-a-Disk #44, December 2000
Articles

Banner ads are dead, long live online advertising
How businesses can capitalize on Java Puzzle Cards
Misconceptions about "search engine optimization"

Your private disk drive on the Web

Going fishing: hooking Web page visitors and turning them into customers
The New New Thing by Michael Lewis, a book review
Bridging wired and wireless, and putting the user in control New electronic texts -- from Gutenberg

Web Business Boot Camp
The Internet Archive

Javapuzzlecards
eBookIt

Make your presentations in Internet, instead of PowerPoint
Advice to a friend redesigning a company Web site
The leap to multimedia -- it all depends on disk space
Expanded translation capabilities at AltaVista's Babelfish site
Brief history of DEC's Internet Business Group

Learn to ask the right questions by Richard Seltzer
Web site style -- how to appeal to a general audience by Richard Seltzer
Barter and swapping sites -- an alternative to online auctions by Richard Seltzer
New electronic texts -- from Gutenberg

Use email to "beam" information to other palm users
Use live text chat to help your Web visitors
Get free voicemail

Start the day with the start of a good book

Let books grow -- implications of electronic books and print on demand by Richard Seltzer
Dialogue about the implications of epublishing and print on demand for authors and publishers -- Jeff VanderMeer, Jeff Thomas, and Richard Seltzer

High Stakes, No Prisoners by Ferguson

from Gutenberg

Weight and exercise, from Alfred Thompson

Off-the-wall ideas: Just can't weight? Trying to make sense of the relationship between exercise and weight loss
The Web and your palm -- sometimes less is more, when it's the right less by Richard Seltzer
Sync to people: building relationships palm-to-palm by Richard Seltzer
The Internet and books -- transformation of an industry by Richard Seltzer
Further thoughts about the Internet and books by Richard Seltzer
Many of today's "online publishers" are really just "online printers" by Richard Seltzer
New electronic texts: from Gutenberg

Survival of the startups - how to recruit the right people and build loyalty and create a motivating culture - who has time for this? by Richard Seltzer
What belongs on a Web page, and why? by Richard Seltzer
Tips for working at home, for yourself by Richard Seltzer
When progress is a step backward -- in praise of plain-text email by Richard Seltzer
New electronic texts: from Gutenberg

Web Notes: Becoming media
Turning Web traffic into revenue -- affiliate and related programs by Richard Seltzer
Brand names on the Web -- a raging success story by Richard Seltzer
New electronic texts: from Gutenberg

Building businesses on top of businesses -- the AuctionRover example by Richard Seltzer
Sales channels and the Web by Richard Seltzer
Internet lessons from London by Richard Seltzer
Thoughts about 3D on the Web by Richard Seltzer
Letters to the editor: Using the Internet to dialog with voters by Alfred Thompson
New electronic texts: from Gutenberg

Political web sites and community by Alfred C. Thompson II
Whatever happened to virtual companies? by Richard Seltzer
Web-site superglue -- the Nutrition Calculator at Healthwatch by Richard Seltzer
Content wars: video vs. text. Welcome to Lilliput, Mr. Gulliver. by Richard Seltzer
New electronic texts: from Gutenberg

Web Notes -- AltaVista, CompareItAll, iSyndicate, Learnlots, flypaper, Harry Potter, and free Internet access
Off-the-wall ideas -- URhell.com, baseball salaries, author chats
Feature articles:
3D Advertising by Mark Neely
Sprint marketing: what should you do when time is more important than money? by Richard Seltzer
Opportunities lost: trying to make sense of sprint marketing by Richard Seltzer
Book Review: The Cluetrain Manifesto by Rick Levine, Christopher Locke, David Weinberger, and Doc Searls
The importance of "listening" by Richard Seltzer
New electronic texts: from Gutenberg

Defining "Internet marketing" by Richard Seltzer
Book Review: Weaving the Web by Tim Berners-Lee
Experiment in participative democracy: car recalls by Richard Seltzer
Internet litmus test for candidates
Alternative to ISBN for electronic books

Varieties and value of content (spontaneous, crafted, and engineered) and how to turn content to value on the Internet by Richard Seltzer
How to make chat work for your online business by Richard Seltzer
Search engines and directories: when to use which by Richard Seltzer
New electronic texts -- from Gutenberg

DEC, not Digital -- -- the right thing to do: An experiment in human engineering by Richard Seltzer
Where the people are -- now it's Boston/New Hampshire by Richard Seltzer
Why didn't the walls come tumbling down? An outsider's view of distance education by Richard Seltzer
New electronic texts-- from Gutenberg

Web Notes -- B&R Samizdat Express
Business on the World Wide Web -- fall schedule for this chat program
DSL vs. cable for high-speed Internet access by Richard Seltzer
Business opportunities opened by high-speed Internet access by Richard Seltzer
Wireless Internet from a business perspective by Richard Seltzer
Here comes wireless -- watch out for the riptide by Richard Seltzer
New electronic texts -- from The Gutenberg Project

Advice for authors about electronic opportunities by Richard Seltzer
How not to do ecommerce: learning from the mistakes of others by Richard Seltzer
Book reviews --
Taking a fresh look at Durant's Story of Civilization, and thinking about the Internet
Making Sense of the Internet Business Environment, a review of 'The Great Disruption' by Francis Fukuyama
The Age of Spiritual Machines by Ray Kurzweil
The Border Trilogy by Cormac McCarthy
Steve Erickson's The Sea Came in at Midnight
New electronic texts -- from The Gutenberg Project
Letters to the editor

Curious Technology -- Linkbot
Web Notes -- Web sites I keep returning to, Tips on selling at Ebay
Off-the-wall ideas -- The Law of Collectibles
Content-based Internet Marketing by Richard Seltzer
Have you read or published an electronic book lately? by Richard Seltzer
Movie Review -- Random Thoughts on "Message from a Bottle" by Barbara Seltzer
Letters to the Editor -- Online Ambassadors, Generalists, Email Format
New Electronic Texts-- Gutenberg Project

Generalists needed, but not wanted by Richard Seltzer
It's getting really crazy -- now how do we compete? by Richard Seltzer
Random, variable discounts -- shopping the slot-machine way, one way to cope with the new Internet business environment by Richard Seltzer
Volunteer e-business ambassadors -- a way to go high touch without going broke by Richard Seltzer
Soundbytes from "Measuring and Improving Internet Marketing", an IQPC conference held in San Francisco, Jan. 13-14, 1999 by Richard Seltzer
Has the window closed for would-be online trading companies? And is it closing rapidly for other niches as well? Maybe not. by Richard Seltzer
Playing to win. Suggestions for transferring game techniques to the world of business. by Richard Seltzer
New electronic texts from the Gutenberg Project

Curious technology
Play vintage videogames on your PC, with free emulator software (Retrocade and Mame)
Downloading is a lot easier now than it was a year ago -- using SmartDownload
Web notes
Internet shopping
AltaVista PhotoFinder
E-Books will bring a new era of opportunity for writers/authors -- post-filtering instead of pre-filtering content by Jon Noring
Basic questions for developing an Internet business strategy by Richard Seltzer
Dharma and Greg and Internet business by Richard Seltzer
The two faces of Internet business: traditional and revolutionary by Richard Seltzer
Aim for more than just delivering training. Create a learning environment by Richard Seltzer
Off-the-wall ideas
The extraterrestrial descent of man? by Richard Seltzer
Reviews --
Unexpected gem -- Granta 64, Russia: The Wild East (added 11/29/98)
Love that quote: "A plenitude of information leads to a poverty of attention"
New electronic texts -- from the Gutenberg Project, the Internet Public Library, and PLEASE COPY THIS DISK
Letters to the Editor -- Making a Web site accessible for the blind

Web notes --
Automatic email updates to AltaVista queries (from TracerLock)
Reverse telephone lookup (from Anywho)
Changes to Advanced Search at AltaVista
Halloween strikes again -- the power of content for driving traffic to Web sites (added 11/2/98)
Please share your on-line shopping experiences (added 11/2/98)
Looking for jobs and consulting work (added 11/2/98)
Anyone need a consultant? I'm on my own now (added 11/2/98)
Portable electronic book readers by John Mark Ockerbloom
Recommended plug-ins and utilities by Tracy Marks
New electronic texts -- from the Gutenberg Project, from The Internet Public Library Online Texts Collection
Off-the-wall ideas
"Cultural citizenship" -- an alternative form of government made possible by the Internet by Richard Seltzer
Reply from Alfred C. Thompson
Castro, baseball, and a possible end to political conflict with Cuba -- by Richard Seltzer
Response from Larry Eldridge (retired sports editor of the Christian Science Monitor)
Baseball -- time for a rule change: from intentional walk to "home walk" -- by Richard Seltzer
Response from Larry Eldridge (retired sports editor of the Christian Science Monitor)
Why Clinton might resign -- by Richard Seltzer
Response from Alfred Thompson
Letters to the Editor
Marketing the book vs. marketing the author -- from Brett Hart
Asking for advice re: do-it-yourself Web hosting by cable modem -- from "martin--the birdscaper" and from Eric Eldred
Advice regarding anti-hate pledge -- from Denise Rogers

Curious technology -- Help Read, AltaVista Discovery, FaceWorks
New electronic texts -- from The Gutenberg Project
Modular distributed Web sites -- a kludge for personal and small business Web sites that offers richness and variety at no cost
Book Review -- Welcome to the revolution (Cybercorp by James Martin)
Do-it-yourself Web hosting -- some say it can't be done; others are doing it already
Letters to the Editor
Reactions to "Web hosting and cable modems"
Cable-company policies get in the way -- from Manny Wise
Linux PC at home using cable modem -- from Eric Eldred
Flies in the ointment -- from Jerry Green
DSL, not cable modems -- from Perry Schager
That is exactly what is happening -- from Jim Carroll
Cable modem connections are totally unsuitable for serious web hosting -- from Gabriel Ioan
Risks and hassles -- from Chris Cavallucci
Content becoming more relevant than presentation -- from Radu Hociung
50-meg Web site -- from Yvan Rivard
Reactions to Internet-on-a-Disk #23 -- from Eric Eldred
Automatic translation -- from Eric Eldred

Marketing the book vs. marketing the author -- the differing interests of authors and publishers
Courses anyone? From book to distance ed -- proposed course outlines
Associate/affiliate/referral programs and the old Internet culture
Promoting books on-line
Book Review -- How, but no clue of why (aol.com by Kara Swisher)
Book Review -- Machine-gun Larry: right on target (Essential Business Tactics for the Net by Larry Chase)
Web Notes
Finding live events and getting yours listed
Red Tide (an artist's site)
New Electronic Texts
from The Gutenberg Project, Renascence Editions, Edmund Spenser's Home Page, Biographies, The Naked Word, the CIA
Movie stuff
Sites for movie lovers
How to find movies on TV/cable
Business opportunity -- movie previews
Endings Then and Now -- from Taxi Driver to Silence of the Lambs
Off-the-wall ideas
Information sharing and communism
What price privacy?
Letters to the Editor
Why do you do it? -- Maxine Hartley
Web-based distribution -- Ken Laws
On-Line Communities -- Jared Bradley Goldstein
Web hosting and cable modems -- Jake Moskowitz and Jeff Field

Thoughts on branding on the Internet
No more excuses. Build your own personal Web site. It's time to experiment.
From Web-hosting back to do-it-yourself -- the likely impact of cable modems
Quick summary of current Internet trends
Comparing on-line shopping experiences -- getting better
Upcoming chat topics -- Business on the World Wide Web
Book Review -- Everything you need to do to MOO: guide to an alternative environment for on-line discussion, business communities, and distance education
MOO wishlist -- why not add a time dimension?
Book Review -- The death of demographics
Book Review -- How easy is it to build a business by building a virtual community?
Coping with discontinuous change
Off-the-wall ideas
Profile in courage
Venture capital and Christopher Columbus
Slavery and industrialization
The energy cycle
Revival of silent movies?
The evolutionary value of the speed of light and the distance of stars
Einsteinian space-time
World War II legacy
New electronic texts

Web notes-- Acunet Internet Commerce Services, Amazon.com Associates Program, Power Searching with AltaVista, Mainspring, The Elsop Webmaster Resource Center, Language Tags at AltaVista Search, Example of use of AltaVista, PriceScan -- Web-based computer price search engine, A Clue...to Internet Commerce by Dana Blankenthorn, Barcode Web, Windweaver, Center for International Legal Studies
Educational resources -- Study Web, LIVE FROM MARS, Empowerment Zone, Distance Education Clearinghouse, Online Class
Curious Technology -- AltaVista Search Personal eXtension 97, Cosmo Player, PGPcookie.cutter for Windows 95 and NT 4.0
Internet resources for the blind -- National Braille Press, dev-access mailing list
Reviews of Internet books -- Net Gain, Rules of the Net
Features
Building On-Line Communities by Alfred Thompson
What it Takes: Skills for Successful Communities by Richard Seltzer
Push? Maybe. Maybe Not. by Richard Seltzer
Speculation about the Effect of the Internet on the Economy by Richard Seltzer
Letters to and responses from the editor What Did You Learn from All that Reading? Updike's Rabbit Novels, How to Publicize a Web Site? Culture and Web-Site Design
What's new -- (etexts available on the Internet): B&R Samizdat Express, The Gutenberg Project, Naked World, Electronic Frontier Foundation, Screenwriters Utopian Home Page, MIT Press, On-Line Books Page new books listing, Accessing the Internet by Email, Moths to the Flame: The Seductions of Computer Technology, The Duke Papyrus Archive, The Secular Web (formerly called the Freethought Web), Russian Story - Russian Periodicals Online, CultureWork, Athena Pages, American Literary Classics - A Chapter a Day
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What's new -- (etexts available on the Internet): B&R Samizdat Express, The Gutenberg Project, Project Bartleby, Bibliomania, Macmillan's Que Books, CIA, Naked Word, Voice of the Shuttle, Zvi Har' El's Fairy Tales and Stories Site, Writers' Haven
Sources of info about copyright
PLEASE COPY THIS DISK
Web notes -- Amazon.com, Top 100 Electronic Recruiters, Mainspring
Friends on the Web-- Robin & Berthold Langer, Dave Stamps, Jack Rahaim, Dan Kalikow, Alfred Thompson
Educational resources -- LIVE FROM ANTARTICA 2, LIVE FROM MARS, Science Textbooks and Historical Science, Cybrary, Resources Pathways College Information Community,
Curious technology -- Live Topics at AltaVista Search, Voxware, Four11's Internet Phone and Video Phone Directories, MapQuest, Internet Classroom Assistant, WebEtc from Microtest
Internet resources for the disabled -- "Design Considerations: Readers with Visual Impairments," Empowerment Zone (employment info for the disabled), Yuri Rubinsky Insight Foundation
Features--
Internet Advice for Newcomers by Richard Seltzer
Training, Not Censorship -- The Road to Eden is Closed, Need for Cyber-Street-Smarts by Richard Seltzer
Flypaper Dialogue -- Making Web Sites Interactive without Interactive Software by Richard Seltzer
Toward a Learning Community/Market by Richard Seltzer
Another Look at the Future -- Divergence is the Next Challenge by Richard Seltzer
Letters to and responses from the editor -- Reaction to article "Internet Advice for Newcomers," Reaction to article "How to Make Business Chat Work," What is the market for electronic books? How do you make money? Advantages and disadvantages of intranets, What does "Samizdat" mean? Corelli's Mandolin

What's New (etexts available on the Internet): B&R Samizdat Express, The Gutenberg Project, The Bartleby Project, Bibliomania, Theology on the Web, The Tech Archive, Philosophers (The U. of Idaho), The Electronic Text Center at the University of Virginia, The Tolstoy Library, the Jules Verne Collection, The Screenwriters Utopian Home Page, Wordman Production Company, Macmillan Computer Publishing Online Books, Chalidze Publications, The Online Medieval and Classical Library, The Virtual Bookshelf, Book People
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Web Notes The Changing Face of Technology, Electronic Recruiting News, Mapping Your Future, CollegeBound.NET, Contact Center Network, Terra Chess, Live Computer Help, Lawguru.com, VersusLaw, Web Consultants Association, IBM Patent Server
Curious Non-Use of Technology Telephone over the Internet, Internet Fast Forward
Curious Technology Firefly, Site Watch, internet-now, Broadcaster, NewsMonger, LookSmart, Filez, Coola
Curious Business Models Millenium Interactive
Resources for the Disabled "Guidelines for Reporting and Writing about People with Disabilities", In Touch Network
Other Educational Resources Live from Antarctica 2, WebCT, Index of Resources for Historians, Al Bodzin's Home Page
Reviews of Internet Books
24 Hours in Cyberspace
Features:
How to Make "Business Chat" Work by Richard Seltzer
People with Disabilities Can't Access the Web! by Mike Paciello
Letters to & Responses from the Editor

What's New (etexts available on the Internet): B&R Samizdat Express, The Gutenberg Project, Internet World Magazine, Henry James Scholar's Guide, Bartleby Project, Bibliomania, Moby Lexicon Project
On-line Commercial Publishing Experiments Que Publishing, O'Reilly, Reality Software
Web Notes : Intranet, Health, Blindness/Disabilities, Telephone Etc. Directories, Government, Travel, Miscellaneous
Other Educational Resources : Copyright & Fair Use, Passport to Knowledge, UK Boarding Schools, CubaNet, MapQuest, Teaching about the Americas, Astronomy
Curious Technology : Faxes and Voicemail Delivered by Email (JFAX), Zap Banner Ads and Kill the Cookie Monster with Internet Fast Forward, More on Cookies and Other Insidious Traps, Free Email (HotMail and Juno)
The Joy of Being Found: What to Connect to Old Friends, Customers, Employers? Try Using Flypaper by Richard Seltzer
Suggestion -- No Frills Web Pages for Community Service Organizations by Richard Seltzer
Let Plain Text Take You to a Different World -- the Potential of MUD by Michael Andrew Clubine and Adriana Cristina Oliveri
Degrees of Separation: a Design Goal by Richard Seltzer
Letters to the Editor

What's New (etexts available on the Internet): B&R Samizdat Express, The Gutenberg Project, The Bartleby Project, Bibliomania (Data Text), Notre Dame, REESWeb, Oxford Archive
Web Notes : Context & Concept Filtering, First Steps: Marketing & Design Daily, Switchboard, Telstra, Four11, Liszt Directory, The Meaning of Life, Web Etiquette, Virtual Institute of Information, Union of International Associations, Web Digest for Marketers, Computerist Magazine
Other Educational Resources : Focus on Words, Student Book Reviews, Eco Travel in Latin America, New South African Constitution
Metasites: Boston.com, Travelocity, Matchpoint, Classified2000, Let's Talk Business, Mississippi River Home Page, Ireland On-Line, Hearthnet, Birmingham Assist, College Guides and Admissions
Places to Discuss Internet Marketing Issues: Business on the World Wide Web chat session, Asian Internet Marketing, Guerilla Marketing Online, Web Consultants mailing list, Intranut, Internet Marketing Communications mailing list, International Business Discussion Group, Internet-Sales Discussion List, Internet Developers Association, ISBC Business Discussion Group Newsletters, Abracadabra, Conference on Sales and Marketing via the Internet, Market-L List, CAN-IMARKET, Oracle-Agora, Marketplace
Curious Technology : EarthWeb Chat, Smart Bookmarks
Low-Tech Web-Page Design by Richard Seltzer
Advertising on the Internet -- Is it Worth the Price? by Alfred Thompson
Letters to the Editor

What's New (etexts available on the Internet) -- B&R Samizdat, The Gutenberg Project, Electronic Frontier Foundation, E-Literate Enterprises, Basement Full of Books, Vile Goller/ Fine Arts Printing
Web Notes -- net.radio, Amish Paradise, SubmitAll, wURLd Presence, International Union of Gospel Missions, Asian Internet Marketing, FindLaw
Update on Metasites -- Village Group, ArchitectsOnline, Canadian Real Estate Association, The HomeScout Guide
Educational Resources -- African Literature, Live from the Hubble Space Telescope, Monster Exchange Project, Web66, Latitude28 Schoolhouse, H-net (Humanities and Social Sciences), Vietnam: Yesterday and Today, The Biology Place
Curious Technology -- Netcharger, VDOPhone, DialWeb, A-Mail
Features
All that Glitters -- If I Had Bandwidth Enough and Time by Richard Seltzer, plus responses from Mike Macomber, Alfred Thompson, and Vijay Mukhi
The Internet Software Tug-of-War by Richard Seltzer, plus response from Russ Jones
The Web and People with Disabilities: Cutting Edge Developments by Michael Paciello
Letters to the Editor

What's New (etexts available on the Internet) -- B&R Samizdat, Gutenberg, Edward Lear's Nonsense, Drew's Scripts-O-Rama, Into the Wardrobe, On-Line Books Page
Web-Based PC Support?
Web Notes -- Expertspace, Internet Business Network, Ecola's Newsstand, Searchable list of discussion mailing lists, NetTax '96, Akropolis Arts Magazine
Other Educational Resources -- K-12 Administrator's Connection, Bosnia Page, H-NET, The Book Nook
Features:
Just Enough Quality -- Richard Seltzer
Up-Dating the Circles Model: Value-Added Internet Services -- Richard Seltzer
The AltaVista Revolution -- Richard Seltzer
Making the Web Accessible for the Deaf, Hearing and Mobility Impaired -- Mike Paciello
Are Participants Born or Made? The Potential of Web-Based Discussion for Distance Education -- Richard Seltzer
Letters to the Editor

What's new -- B&R Samizdat, Gutenberg, Edmunds Spenser, Douglas Adams, Unofficial Internet Public Domain Index,Unofficial Internet Public Domain Index, Basement Full of Books, Omnimedia, Association of Research Libraries, World Anonymous ftp sites
Web notes -- Open Text, Scout Report, B&R Samizdat, Real Results, Zip codes from US Postal Service, Brain Treatment Center, BargainFinder, InterLotto from the government of Liechtenstein
Other educational resources -- 1995 CIA World Factbook, Live from the Hubble Telescope, Bioblast Project, K-12 Opportunities from Global SchoolNet, Voices of Youth Project from UNICEF, Galileo -- Online from Jupiter, Primary Destination New Hampshire from Foster's Dailly Democrat
Curious Technology -- WWW Homepage Creation Center from The-Inter.Net, VDOLive, StreamWorks from Xing Technology Corp.
Features
Video and the Internet -- Richard Seltzer
Will the "news" go away? -- Richard Seltzer
The evolution of technology and the Internet -- Richard Seltzer
Who controls the context? Search engines and the fate of carefully contructed Web sites -- Richard Seltzer
Letters to the editor

What's new -- B&R Samizdat Express, Gutenberg Project, Edward Beach, The Seven by Nine Squares
Web notes -- Central Source Yellow Pages, Travel Time Trip Planner, EnviroLink Network, MendelWeb, Trace Research and Development Center, Web Digest for Marketers, The Internet Index from Win Treese, Family pages or "Cyberhomes"
Other educational 4esources -- Primary Destination New Hampshire, from Foster's Daily Democrat in Dover, NH and Digital Equipment Corporation, Quest! Home of NASA's K-12 Internet Initiative, Live from the Stratosphere, Washington Social Studies, International Honors Program, Newton's Apple, The Armchair Scientist
Curious technology -- Free Services Page from NetMind, Free Services Page from NetMind, NetBuddy from Internet Solutions, Tiger Map Service, Excite, Webwhacker from Forefront Group, Netscape Navigator 2.0 (beta) from Netscape, Workgroup Web Forum from Digital Equipment Corp.
New business models -- Cartoonist by-passes syndicators (Borderline Cartoon Archive), A new kind of advertising (Webconnect)
How do you define success? The Real Results Directory
Features:
"Hit-Vitations" -- What's going on? And how do you play this game? -- Richard Seltzer
How to publicize a new Web site over the Internet -- Richard Seltzer (updated version)
Movies notes: Lost in Cyber Space -- My Very Personal Reaction to "Hackers"
Letters to the editor

The Way of the Web (poem) -- Richard Seltzer
What's new -- B&R Samizdat, Gutenberg, Richard Bear, Banned Books Online, Scott "Omar" Davis, Christian Classics Ethereal Library, Mississippi State University, U.S. Department of Labor
Incredible! We made the "top 50" list of Web sites
Web notes -- Welford and Wickham Primary School in Berkshire, England; the Lenox Group; Foster's Daily Democrat in Dover, NH and Digital Equipment Corp.; Gargoyle fans; four sites devoted to Ethiopian culture and history
Other educational resources -- EdWeb, Net-Happenings, Distance Learning Library
Curious technology -- Jazz drive, Crayon, Experimental Search Tool from Steve Glassman at Digital Equipment, Submit It
Book notes -- Desire for the Land by Richard Bear
Movie notes -- Just enough tech: "The Net" works well
Features
Will the real Tomorrowland please step forward? -- Richard Seltzer
Making the Web accessible for the blind and visually impaired -- Mike Paciello
And the blind shall lead them: New ways to perceive cyberspace -- Richard Seltzer
Letters to the editor

What's new -- B&R Samizdat, Gutenberg Project, Richard Bear, Data Text, Project Bartleby, United Nations, Electronic Text Center at U. of Virginia, Contemporary American Poetry Archive, Reality Software, Sam Sternberg, Gary Kline
Web notes -- Zip codes from US Postal Service, National Institutes of Health, Internet Chess Club, sites devoted to the blind and disabled
Other educational resources -- Live from the Stratosphere
Curious technology -- RealAudio, Zip drive
Feature -- Hey, that's your picture -- Web pages as tools for recognition and motivation -- Richard Seltzer
Book note -- Being Digital by Nicholas Negroponte
Movie note -- Johnny Mnemonic: forget it
Letters to the editor

What's new -- B&R Samizdat, Gutenberg Project, Project Libellus, Data Text, Project Bartleby, U. of Pennsylvania, La Bibliotheque d'ABU, United Nations, Radio Free Europe, The Online World
Web notes -- Yahoo, Children's Literature Web Guide, Smithsonian Institute, James Joyce in Cyberspace, Mark Twain Library, Hillside Elementary in Minnesota, Mark Lottor of Network Wizards, Proyecto Cervantes, Amistad Research Center, Tarlton Law School, Montgomery County Pennsylvania
Curious technology -- Vocaltech, Electric Magic
Feature -- The associative power: This ain't Kansas, Mr. Broadcaster -- Richard Seltzer
Letters to the editor

What's new -- Gutenberg, Live from Antarctica, Data Text, Freethought Web
Web notes -- Hillside Elementary, Library of Congress: Thomas, Montgomery County Pennsylvania
Curious technology -- converting HTML to plain text, converting files to HTML, hypermail
Readership: who's out there
Feature -- The Internet and the human spirit -- Richard Seltzer
Hope for the disabled -- Microsoft opens Windows for the blind

What's new -- Gutenberg Project, Stony Run Farm
Web notes -- United Nations, US House of Representatives, Yahoo, Greenwood Publishing, U. of Michigan Press, Gordon Joly
Curious technology -- Modus Internet, Vocaltech,
Using electronic texts in schools
Feature -- Commerce, democracy, and the Internet -- Richard Seltzer

What's new -- Gutenberg Project, Live from Antarctica, CIA, Classics site, Proyecto Cervantes, Roadmap from Patrick Crispen
Web notes -- Yahoo, Lycos, Digital Equipment, Gleason Sackman, Canada's Schoolnet, IRS, UK Treasury, Wall St. Journal, Taylor Road Middle School, Internet Mall, California Virtual Tourist, chess on the Web
Curious technology -- SlipKnot, Web FAX
Features
We don't need cities anymore: Reflections ont he meaning of commerce on the Internet -- Richard Seltzer
Lynx means access to the World Wide Web for the blind -- Richard Seltzer
Lynx letters

What's new -- Gutenberg Project, Wiretap, Association des Bibliophiles Universels, Country Studies on World-Wide Web from Library of Congress, U.S. Army Area Handbooks, United Nations
Web notes -- Netscape browser, Yahoo, search tools, White House, California election, Britannica
Features --
Eureka! I can run a Web server from my PC at home with an ordinary modem and SLIP account -- Richard Seltzer
Cataloging the Internet -- Richard Seltzer
Hey, this is great. But how can I use it -- Richard Seltzer

What's new -- Gutenberg Project, Wiretap, Libellus Project, Oxford Archive, Diana collection of human rights resources, Congressional Quarterly, Legal Information Institute (Cornell), Marvell Comics, Spunk Press, Alex Catalog of Texts, Directory of e-text centers, Novel in Progress
Features
Diskette power -- Richard Seltzer
Alternatives to traditional academic publishers -- Richard Seltzer
Letters to the editor

What's new -- Gutenberg Project, Wiretap, US Dept. of Education, The Fourth World Documentation Project, Baha'i World Centre
Features
Suggested tactics for building an electronic library -- Richard Seltzer
Clarification: Authors and the Internet -- Richard Seltzer
The Internet: A new dimension -- Richard Seltzer

What's new -- Gutenberg Project, US Dept. of Education, NATO, Helsinki City Library, Project Runeberg
Landmarks -- Elementary schools on the Web, Peru (in Spanish) on the Web
Feature -- An author's view of electronic rights and the public domain -- Richard Seltzer

What's new -- Gutenberg Project, Wiretap, Oxford Archive, Libellus Project, Electronic Frontier Foundation, US Dept. of Education, University of Maryland, NATO
Feature -- Open Texts: A rallying cry for schools and libraries -- Richard Seltzer

What's new -- Gutenberg Project, Wiretap, Oxford Archive, Electronic Frontier Foundation, White House, US Dept. of Education, U. of Pennsylvania, Case Western Reserve University, NATO
Feature -- The public domain and the World Wide Web: Keep the frontier open -- Richard Seltzer

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