RECOMMENDED INTERNET BOOKS

These are books about the Internet and its business impact which I read recently and found very useful. Please send me your reactions to these and recommendations of others.

Richard Seltzer seltzer@samizdat.com

The Internet Business Environment

Smart Mobs by Howard Rheingold 2 (scheduled for Dec. 5, 2002 chat session, see www.samizdat.com/chat.html)review

 Small Pieces Loosely Joined by David Weinberger (scheduled for Nov. 21, 2002 chat session, see

www.samizdat.com/chat.html) review
The Cathedral and the Bazaar by Eric Raymond review

The Cluetrain Manifesto by Christopher Locke, Rick Levine, David Weinberger, and Doc Searls review, related chat transcript, second chat transcript, related article

Weaving the Web : The Original Design and Ultimate Destiny of the World Wide Web by Tim Berners-Lee review

Affiliate Selling: Building Revenue on the Webby Greg Helmstetter and Pamela Metivier, related chat transcript

High Stakes, No Prisoners by Charles Ferguson review

StrikingItRich.com: Profiles of 23 Incredibly Successful Websites You've Probably Never Heard Of by Jaclyn Easton

Essential Business Tactics for the Net by Larry Chase review

High Wired: On the Design, Use, and Theory of Educational MOOs edited by Cynthia Haynes and Jan Rune Holmevik (University of Michigan Press, 1998.) review

The Virtual Community: Homesteading on the Electronic Frontier by Howard Rheingold

Cybercorp by James Martin review

New Rules for the New Economy: 10 Radical Strategies for a Connected World by Kevin Kelly

Burn Rate by Michael Wolff

Rules for Revolutionaries: the Capitalist Manifesto for Creating and Marketing New Products and Services by Guy Kawaski

Startup by Jerry Kaplan (not technically an "Internet" book; but dealing with the same issues that Internet startups face today)

The Innovators Dilemma by Clayton Christensen (likewise not an "Internet" book, but deals with principles important for business success on the Internet)

Living on the Fault Line: Managing for Shareholder Value in the Age of the Internet by Geoffrey Moore

The New New Thing by Michael Lewis (adventure story of Jim Clark, founder of Silicon Graphics, Netscape, and Healtheon) review

Internet-Related Science Fiction

Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson

Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson

Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card

Distraction by Bruce Sterling


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