Sitemap part 4
For the complete sitemap of B&R Samizdat Express see http://www.samizdat.com/sitemap.html)
Other pieces of the sitemap (created because search engines don't look
at the full contents of extremely large pages) http://www.samizdat.com/sitemap2.html,
http://www.samizdat.com/sitemap3.html,
http://www.samizdat.com/sitemap5.html
Edited transcript of "Who needs a desktop?" first
of a new series of business on the Web chat sessions, held March 22, 2006
Business on the Web (complete,
edited transcripts of weekly chat session hosted by Richard Seltzer --
"where word of keystroke begins," starting June 1996)
Farewell to "Business
on the Web" chats Article explaining why we discontinued this weekly
chat program that ran from June 1996 to November 2003. (It may have been
the longest-running chat program on the Web.)
For an article on how to make chat work for your business, see www.samizdat.com/events.html.
To participate in a forum-style discussion of this topic, go to Web
business bootcamp. To post your comments, click on Add, then Login,
and, if it's your first time, Register. Also, please feel free to participate
in the other related discussions at that site.
Transcripts of previous chat sessions:
Selling at eBay: focus on research
November 6, 2003 (edited
transcript) Tracy Marks (who has an eBay feedback rating of over 2470)
sharing tips and
insights about selling at eBay.
Teleseminars with Jenny Hamby and Preston Campbell
Feb. 13, 2003 (edited
transcript) -- Conducting, promoting and archiving teleseminars, with Jenny
Hamby www.hambycommunications.com
and Preston Campbell www.teleseminarsuccess.com
(suggested by Heidi Perry hperry@advantage-online.com)
PR in tough times
November 14, 2002 (edited
transcript) -- Ethel Kaiden and John Comando
The classroom as a database
Oct. 24, 2002 (edited
transcript) -- Kathleen Gilroy, CEO of The Otter Group, an e-learning company.
Where and how to buy things to sell at online auctions
Oct. 10, 2002 (edited
transcript) -- Heidi Perry hperry@advantage-online.com, and Evette Eleese
(author ofHow To Make Money With Internet Auctions: A Proven Method)
Update on selling at online auctions, especially eBay
Oct. 3, 2002 (edited
transcript) -- Evette Elise, author of How To Make Money With Internet
Auctions: A Proven Method shared her experience and provided useful
tips.
Roberta Kalechofsy -- novelist, essayist, speaker, and publisher
May
16, 2002 (raw transcript) -- Roberta Kalechofsky (http://www.micahbooks.com)
talked about her works and also about experiences and learnings from the
realms of traditional small press publishing, print-on-demand, and marketing
over the Internet. I first met Roberta in the mid-1970s when we were both
exhibiting frequently at small press books fairs. Now that my venture of
publishing books on CD ROM is taking off -- with good response to collections
of public domain books -- starting with Roberta, I'm going to begin publishing
contemporary, copyrighted works, paying royalties to authors. I hope to
have a CD with half a dozen of her books available in a few weeks. (Please
check out my other offerings at my online store http://store.yahoo.com/samizdat).
Developing applications for speech, with Ken Ingham of Amazability
May 2, 2002 -- Kenneth
R. Ingham, President of Amazability, Inc. talks about applications developed
for speech as opposed to voice adaptations of graphical presentations.
The discussion centers on an alternative technology for assistive systems
(for the blind/visually impaired), wherein the where speech
is the initial design goal, versus the typical approach, where the starting
point is the visual presentation. Here "speech" includes both voice
recognition and text-to-speech. Related article: "With
voice for input and output, computing enters a new realm"
A new way to make quality "spoken" books
April
18, 2002 (raw transcript) -- guest Nick Hodson explained his method
of "massaging" etext files so they sound good when "read" by a speech engine
(text-to-voice converter). For now, he is focusing on ISpeak from Fonix.
Click
here to download a 2 Mbyte, 17 minute audio sample (in mp3 format) put
together by Nick, 100Kbyte, 25
second audio sample (in mp3 format) created
using the latest version of ISpeak
Building, selling, and reading ebooks the easy way (for use on PCs, without
encryption; e.g., plain text ebooks on CD ROM).
April
11, 2002 (raw transcript) -- Mainly talking about the CD books we're
building at B&R Samizdat Express. See our online store at http://store.yahoo.com/samizdat
Yaga, business models for selling content
March
28, 2002 (raw transcript) -- guest Arnaud Fischer from Yaga. Yaga has
been striving to build a digital content marketplace based on P2P and online
payment technology. We want to find out what they have learned -- what
works and what doesn't and why. (transcript not yet available)
Chatterbox, a new voice conferencing platform
Nov. 15, 2001 (text notes
from the discussion; streaming
audio [for RealPlayer] of the full hour of discussion). Discussion
and demo of a great new voice conferencing platform, with Peter Carlson,
vp of technology with Simple Software (the company that developed it),
and George Buys, an enthusiastic user.
Business use of voice recognition
Nov. 1 (edited transcript)
-- guest Bill De Stefanis, vp of product development at Lernout*Hauspie
(the company that bought Dragon). They just released version 6 of Dragon
Speaking Naturally.
Radio and the Internet
October
25 (raw transcript) -- guests Dave Sciuto and Bill Dubie of the weekly
radio show The Computer Report, broadcast on WCAP in Lowell.
Yaga, a P2P company with new revenue models for content providers
October 18, 2001 (edited
transcript) Arnaud Fischer from Yaga explained the company's new business
model and how content providers can benefit form it, including a paid subscription
service, with the content providers sharing a large portion of the subscription
money. see related article "Yaga, Yaga do! -- P2P meets micropayments"
at http://www.samizdat.com/yaga.html
Quick Topic Document Review
Oct.
11, 2001 (raw transcript) Dan Kalikow demoed a unique online discussion
tool, where your comments are tied to specific parts of particular documents,
using Quick Topic Document Review. See related article A
great way to get feedback -- but will anyone use it?
Global Learn Day
Oct. 4, 2001 we held a "rehearsal". To see archives of this event (both
text and voice), go to http://www.bfranklin.edu
Tapped In MOO
September 27, 2001,
(raw transcript) Guided tour of TAPPED IN (http://www.tappedin.org) an
online conference center hosting an international community of education
professionals. Teachers, librarians, professional development staff, researchers
and students engage in professional development programs and informal collaborative
activities with colleagues and attend online dicussions and classes. Led
by Keiko Schneider.
Impatica for Powerpoint
September 20, 2001, notes not yet available.
Being found by search engines
On Wednesday August 29, 2001 at www.horizonlive.com,I
delivered a full-blown presentation (including audio and slides) about
How
to use content to attract traffic to your Web site, even when branding
rules saddle you with a search-engine unfriendly design at HorizonLive
www.horizonlive.com. The archive of that presentation is now avaiable at
http://208.185.32.221/launcher.cgi?channel=seltzer001_2001_0829_1600_47
Please let me know if you'd like me to hold a followup discussion on the
same topic as one of our upcoming chat sessions.
Getting ready for Global Learn Day
August 23, 2001 -- summarizing the results our experiments with text-chat
platforms.
Edited transcript.
July 26, 2001 -- testing Bravenet chat, with a brief addendum testing
AOL Messenger's chat-room capability. Raw
transcript
July 12 and 19, 2001 -- no transcript (testing multiple applications)
See related article "Text Chat Choices" http://www.samizdat.com/textchat.html
July 5, 2001. We tested the capability of merging the capabilities
of PalTalk (telephony) to the Franklin Telephone Room and archiving of
same.
People in the PalTalk room could hear the people talking in the telephone
room, and people in the telephone room could hear the people talking in
the PalTalk room, without confusion. An annoying background buzz interfered;
but discovering and fixing such problems was an important goal of the experiment.
That session prompted me to write a description/explanation of the importance
of Global Learn Day http://www.samizdat.com/mcluhan.html
(audio version at http://www.samizdat.com/audio/gld.rm)
Experimenting with voice discussion
For a white paper based largely on this series of experiments, see http://www.samizdat.com/real.html
June 14, 2001. Part 7: Using HorizonLive. The archive for the first
fifteen minutes the June 14 presentation is available at: http://asu.horizonlive.com/launcher.cgi?channel=FoxOnline_2001_0614_1156_57
The rest of the session is at http://asu.horizonlive.com/launcher.cgi?channel=FoxOnline_2001_0614_1211_24.
This URL is case sensitive and that there are underscores between the groups
of numbers. There is no audio for the first couple of minutes since, while
people were logging on. Just let it play and the audio will begin. The
text chat comments are available at: http://www.public.asu.edu/~shogun/dl/hlivelog.html
Thanks to Steve Salik, Technology Support Analyst, College of Business,
Arizona State University,shsalik@asu.edu
June 7, 2001. Part 6: Using Webtrain as a distance ed platform. No
transcript. (Notes to come).
May 31, 2001. Part 5: Using Paltalk to discuss voice chat issues and
possibilities. Audio file available at www.samizdat.com/audio/chat0531.mp3,
summary at www.samizdat.com/paltalk
May 24, 2001. Part 4: Paltalk revisited (32 participants), audio file
available at www.samizdat.com/audio/chat0524.mp3,
details
at www.samizdat.com/paltalk
May 17, 2001. Part 3: Paltalk. Third in our series of voice chat experiments.
for details see www.samizdat.com/paltalk
May 10, 2001. Part
2: Telcopoint. Second of a series of experiments dealing with voice chat
and related solutions.
March 1, 2001. Part
1: Plain Old Telephone System (POTS). First of a series of experiments
dealing with voice chat and related solutions.
What free stuff is left and why
February 15, 2001, February
22, 2001 What free stuff is left and why? Many companies used to offer
free stuff and services to quickly build a large audience, with the idea
of either selling advertising or selling the business based on the number
of registered users. With the dot-com stock market crash, lots of free
offers and the companies that depended on them have disappeared over the
last year. What's still available? What's useful? What isn't worth the
price? And what's the future of the Internet business model of giveaways?
Organized list of links
to resources mentioned in this chat
DSL vs. Cable for high-speed access
January 18 – DSL vs. cable and hooking up multiple systems for your home
office (see related article at http://www.samizdat.com/dsl.html)
The edited transcript from this session is not yet available. Meanwhile,
please check the raw
transcript.
Global Learn Day
January 11 -- guest = John Hibbs, Director of the Benjamin Franklin Institute
of Global Education, in San Diego, talking about distance education and
collaboration, and, in particular, Global Learn Day. ) The edited transcript
from this session is not yet available). Meanwhile, please check the
raw
transcript.
MangoMind, your shared disk drive on the Web
Thursday, December 14 -- Scott Davis, vp and cto of MangoSoft, talking
about their MangoMind service. Now you can have your own disk drive on
the Web -- disk space that you access with the same commands and the same
ease as the hard drive on your computer or the shared hard drives on your
LAN, only this disk is out on the Web and accessible from anywhere. The
space is secure and you can share it with designated partners and colleagues.
Check my article about it at www.samizdat.com/mango.html
and
their Web site at www.mangosoft.com
For
a brief bio of Scott Davis (an early developer of clustering technology)
see www.mangosoft.com/about/management.asp?expand=cto.The
edited transcript from this session is not yet available. Meanwhile, please
check the raw
transcript.
DEC, not Digital
Thursday, December 7 -- How would you write the DEC story? An editor at
Wiley has expressed interest in the proposed book "DEC, not Digital." So
Richard would like to take this opportunity to get your suggestions/reminiscences
etc. about DEC. You can see the proposed book intro at www.samizdat.com/dec.html.
To see reader reactions and react to them forum-style, please go to the
related discussion space at http://webworkzone.com/bootcamp
The edited transcript from this session is not yet available. Meanwhile,
please check the raw
transcript.
MangoMind, your disk drive on the Web
Global Learn Day
November 16 -- Guest = W. Sean Chamberlin, PhD, Online Coordinator/Assistant
Professor, Fullerton College, standing in for John Hibbs, Director of the
Benjamin Franklin Institute of Global Education, in San Diego. Talking
about distance education and collaboration, and, in particular, Global
Learn Day. (the edited transcript from this session is not yet available).
Practical experience in distance education
October 26, Guest = Kathleen Gilroy, founder and CEO of the Otter Group
www.ottergroup.com,
an e-learning company that focuses on programs for university alumni. She
has been developing e-learning programs since the early 1980s and has pioneered
the use of satellite communications and the Internet for professional audiences.
Her current clients include Harvard's Kennedy School of Government, where
she is developing an e-learning series on leadership, and MIT's Sloan School
of Management, where she is developing an e-learning program on financial
technology and investments. She also developed the first e-learning program
for scientists in the early 1980s and developed Harvard Business School's
first e-learning program in the early 1990s. In 1995 her company developed
the first e-learning program on e-commerce. (the edited transcript from
this session is not yet available)
Java Puzzle Cards
October 19, guest =
Scott Cramer, talking about Java puzzle cards, an interesting new app,
now in beta. On the one hand this goes one better than e-cards. You can
quickly create puzzles from any photo with whatever words you want right
on the image and email them. The recipient gets a URL that takes him/her
to a Web page where the pieces are scrambled. You click and drag to put
the pieces together (this is very slick). The puzzle solving is fun and
addictive (this is far is involving/participative, while e-cards are not).
And depending on the complexity (number of pieces chosen in the creation
process), it can be quite a surprise as the picture and the words come
together. These puzzle cards could have interesting benefits as part of
viral marketing campaigns and for early childhood education. Please try
it out at www.javapuzzlecards.com
(This works best from Windows PCs. There are still a few bugs to be worked
out for Macintosh).
Business implications of free massive disk space on the Web
Thursday, October 12.
See related article at www.samizdat.com/leap.html
New directions in scifi, with author Patrick O'Leary
Thursday, October 5,
guest = Scifi author Patrick O'Leary. If you don't have them already, run
out and buy his works: Door Number Three, The Gift, The Impossible Bird,
and Other Voices, Other Doors. Check my
book review. Check his
Web site.
Print-on-demand from the perspective of the do-it-yourself publisher
September 21, 2000 guest
= Michael Joyce (translator of Good Soldier Svejk) review
of his book
Internet-based market research
September 14, 2000 guest
= Ray Deck from eglean.com
eBookIt: a quick way to create multimedia books
September 7, 2000 guest
= Bob Zwick, talking about his eBookIt project and other ebook alternatives.
www.cottagemicro.com/ebooks.
Check The Lizard of Oz, for an
example of an audio book made using eBookIt. To hear the narration, you
need to use Microsoft Internet Explorer and you must have RealPlayer.
Coola: a fast new way to move info to your palm
July 20, 2000 -- guests:
Sameer Agarwal and David Agress from Coola, www.coola.com
Punktown by Jeff Thomas
July 13, 2000 -- Jeff
Thomas, author of "Punktown" a powerful collection of short stories that
creatively pose age-old questions through bizarre and intriguing circumstances
on another planet in the future. See review at www.samizdat.com/isyn/punktown.html
Identity is Destiny
July 6, 2000 (transcript not yet available) -- Larry Ackerman, author of
Identity
is Destiny To see an excerpt and other info about the book, check www.identityisdestiny.com
Metro and Ministry of Whimsy Press, including the role of ebooks the Internet
in small press publishing
June 22, 2000, June
29, 2000 (guests: Jeff Edmunds, author of the novel Metro, and Jeff
VanderMeer from the publisher, Ministry of Whimsy Press) The complete book
is available online for free at www.mindspring.com/~toones/ministry.html).
See review at www.samizdat.com/isyn/metro.html
Recruiting for Internet starups
June 1, 2000, June 8,
2000 (edited transcript not yet available)
Differentiate or Die
May 18, 2000 -- (guest: Jack Trout, author of Differentiate
or Die You can see his profile at www.tenagra.com/ips/private/Wiley/differentiate/profile.html
,
an excerpt from the book at www.samizdat.com/diff.html,
and a related article at www.samizdat.com/raging.html
(edited transcript not yet avaliable)
Clicks and Mortar
May 11, 2000 (guest:
Terry Pearce, co-author with David Pottruck of Clicks
and Mortar: Passion Driven Growth in an Internet Driven World) related
article www.samizdat.com/startups.html
Affiliate selling
April 20, 2000 (guests:
Greg Helmstetter and Pamela Metivier, authors of the book Affiliate
Selling: Building Revenue on the Web. For details and an excerpt
see
www.samizdat.com/affil.html
related article www.samizdat.com/affil2.html
Sales channels and the Web
March 30, 2000 (guest:
Jay Owen) Related article www.samizdat.com/channels.html
(related transcripts from April 6 and April 13 still in the works, sorry
for the delay)
Virtual worlds and 3D shopping/advertising
February 17, 2000 See
related articles Internet-on-a-Disk
#34 and www.samizdat.com/3d.html
The Cluetrain Manifesto (with three of the four co-authors)
February 3, 2000 Feb.
10, 2000 (guests: Christopher Locke, Rick Levine, and David Weinberger).
For a review of this book see www.samizdat.com/clue.html
related article www.samizdat.com/listen.html
Sprint marketing: what should you do when time is more important than money?
January 27, 2000 (still editing that transcript, sorry for the delay)
Grassroots democracy: is the Internet making a difference
January 20, 2000 (still editing that transcript, sorry for the delay)
FairMarket: hosting branded auctions
January 13, 2000 (guest:
Bob Supnik from FairMarket)
Online shopping, lessons from the holidays
January 6, 2000
Online auctions
December 2, 1999 (guest:
author Joseph Sinclair), December
9, 1999 (guest: Calvin from AuctionRover)
Selling content/getting paid for content on the Web
October 21, 1999 , October
28, 1999, November 4,
1999 (guests: Greg Schmergel and Carolyn Unger from ExpertCentral.com,
since bought by About.com and replaced by Allexperts.com; Chris Wills from
Learnlots.com, since bought by Service411 and then renamed Attenza.com)
What's happening to Money
October 14, 1999 (guests:
Richard Rahn, author of The
End of Money, and Russ Jones, marketing manager for MilliCent,
a microcommerce system from Compaq)
Wireless Internet
September 30, 1999 October
7, 1999 (guest: Alan Reiter, president of Wireless Internet & Mobile
Computing, a wireless data consulting company) Related
article on wireless Internet,
Second article on wireless Internet
Business opportunities opened by high-speed Internet access
September 23, 1999 (guests
from The Computer Report, radio show broadcast in Lowell, MA, Sundays,
7-8:30 AM, on WCAP 980 AM in Lowell/Boston, MA) an
article based on this discussion
DSL vs. Cable for high-speed Internet access
September 16, 1999 (guests
from Acunet and MediaOne), see also an
article based on this discussion
Ebay and ecommerce lessons
April 8, 1999, May
6, 1999, May 13, 1999,
May
20, 1999, May 27, 1999,June
3, 1999, see also articles based on these discussions, eBay
for sellers, and more
practical advice for eBay sellers
Business implications of the Linux development model
March 18, 1999, March
25, 1999, April 1, 1999
(book
review of The Cathedral and the Bazaar by Eric Raymond)
The new Web business environment and how to cope
January 7, 1999
Shopping on the Internet
November 12, 1998, November
19, 1998
Finding jobs and getting consulting work
October 8, 1998, October
15, 1998, October 22,
1998, October 29, 1998
Selling books and magazines on-line -- Getting paid for content
July 9, 1998, September
24, 1998, October 1,
1998
Internet marketing/advertising tactics (including brand)
June 18, 1998 July
2, 1998
MOO, an environment for on-line discussion, business communities and distance
education
May 7, 1998 May
14, 1998 May 21, 1998
Live demo of AltaVista Forum, a tool for building business communities
and for distance education (now SiteScape Forum, from www.sitescape.com/
April 23, 1998
Building business communities
March 26, 1998, April
2, 1998, April 9, 1998,
April
16, 1998
Distance education and training
March 19, 1998, March
5, 1998 , February 26,
1998, February 19, 1998,
February
12, 1998 February 5,
1998, January 29, 1998,
January
22, 1998 , January 15,
1998
,
January 8, 1998
December
18, 1997
Bazaars: Low-cost store fronts
December 4, 1997, November
20, 1997
The Social Web -- varieties of "community" experience and their implications
for business
November 13, 1997 , November
6, 1997 (also discussing Placeware), October
30, 1997October 2, 1997,September
25, 1997, September 18,
1997 , September 11,
1997 September 4, 1997,
August
28, 1997 ,
Value-added services from ISPs and others: an alternative business model
for commercial Web sites
August 7, 1997, July
31, 1997 , July 24, 1997
Internet telephony and FAX
July 17, 1997, July
10, 1997, July 3, 1997,June
26, 1997
Web-access to databases and database-enabled Web applications
June 19, 1997, June
12, 1997 , June 5, 1997,May
29, 1997
Web-hosting prices, modular Web sites, chat, and other subjects
May 13, 1997
Putting a face on your Web presence and serving customers on-line (including
Groceries to Go and a study of 1000 commercial Web sites
May 1, 1997, April
24, 1997
Serving customers on-line
April 17, 1997 April
10, 1997
On-line advertising/promotion and electronic commerce
April 3, 1997, March
27, 1997 , March 20,
1997, March 13, 1997,March
6, 1997 February 27,1997
Distance education/training
February 20, 1997 (plus
Internet stats)
International aspects of Web business
February 13, 1997 (plus
distance education/training), Februrary
6, 1997 January 30, 1997
(wireless Internet)
Wireless Internet
January 23, 1997
Techniques for personalizing Web sites
January 16, 1997
Intranet development
January 9, 1997, January
2, 1997
Year-end wrapup
December 19, 1996
From Internet World in New York City
December 12, 1996
Impact of search engines on Internet business
December 5, 1996 , November
21, 1996 , November 14,
1996 , November 7, 1996
New kinds of money
October 31, 1996 October
24, 1996
Low-cost Web-access devices (like WebTV)
October 17, 1996 , October
10, 1996 , October 3,
1996
International business
September 26, 1996 (plus
Malaysia)
Virtual companies
September 19, 1996, September
5, 1996
Chat/Forum and related applications
August 29, 1996
Intranets
August 22, 1996
Video over the Internet
August 15, 1996
Intranet
August 8,1996, August
1, 1996
Electronic Commerce
July 18, 1996
General Internet Business
July 25, 1996, July
11, 1996
How to Make Business Chat
Work an article by Richard Seltzer
Internet Speeches Delivered by Richard Seltzer
Why didn't the walls come tumbling down? An outsider's view of distance
education. keynote speech delivered Oct. 4, 1999, at NAWeb 99, a distance
education conference in Fredricton, New Brunswick, Canada, related article
based on the speech Why
didn't the walls come tumbling down? An outsider's view of distance education
The future of the Internet and the future of business, speech
delivered May 11, 1999, in Lewiston, Maine, at "Cities of the Androscoggin
Annual Dinner and Business Forum on Technology and the Future" script
A
videotape of this speech (44 minutes) is available for $20. To order, send
email to seltzer@samizdat.com
or go to Amazon.com
Corporate-wide knowledge management -- breaking through the barriers
today,
speech delivered at ExpoManagement 98 in Buenos Aires, Argentina,
September 1998, article based on the speech Corporate-wide
knowledge management -- breaking through the barriers today
Internet books by Richard Seltzer
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The Social Web how to
build a successful personal or business Web site (text of the entire book)
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The Way of the Web lessons
from the Internet -- how to adapt to the new business environment (text
of the entire book)
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Shop Online the Lazy Way
text of the entire book, also complete list of links from the book.
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IntroductionWhy shop
Online?
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Part One covers aspects of online shopping that apply no matter what you
want to buy.
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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.
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Chapter Two provides the
information you need to become an independent shopper, using search engines
and price-comparison sites, and auctions.
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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.
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Part 2 covers special cases, where there are major differences in how you
shop based on the kinds of things you are looking for:
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Chapter Four -- books,
music, and videotapes
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Chapter Five -- computers
and software
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Chapter Six -- travel
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Chapter Seven -- food
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Chapter Eight -- money,
including loans, insurance, and investments
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Chapter Nine -- cars
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Chapter Ten -- real
estate, including houses, apartments, and roommates
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More shopping ideas and
resources (the appendices)
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Bio of the author and why
he wrote this book
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Acknowledgements and thank you's
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The AltaVista Search Revolution
related
tutorial, articles, and speeches
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Available in bookstores and orderable online: The AltaVista Search Revolution,
(second
edition, 1998) by Richard
Seltzer and Eric and Deb Ray (Osborne/McGraw-Hill). Click
here to see the press release Available in Hebrew and Japanese translations.
Also available in Braille, from the National
Braille Press. . "Indispensable," says Library Journal, Feb.
1, 1997, p. 102. "This complete guide to using the AltaVista web searching/indexing
system will be indispensable to both librarians and patrons.... Get one
copy to circulate, nail one down in the computer lab, and pass one around
the reference desk." Winner of the "Distinguished Technical Communication
Award", the highest award given by the Society for Technical Communication
Publications.
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BUY
IT HERE. If you buy The AltaVista Search Revolution using
this link, you'll get the usual discount and service from Amazon.com, and
we'll get a small commission for the referral. That could help us pay some
bills and expand what we do for you.
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Love that quote: Found at the Quantum
Books site (http://www.quantumbooks.com/altavista.html)
"Richard Seltzer by day is a mild-mannered marketing consultant at Digital
Equipment and by night is an awesome Web Evangelist, providing aid and
encouragement to people in web distress, giving public lectures, writing
articles and publishing anything and everything here on his own personal
web site."
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An interview with Richard about the book is available in RealAudio at PCWorld
Online http://www.pcworld.com/news/newsradio/seltzer/index.html
Entitled
"Query and Ye Shall Find: Tune up your search engine skills and kiss information
overload goodbye", it consists of eight audio files: Introduction. Why
is AltaVista revolutionary? Tips for narrowing searches fast. Tips so others
can find your Web site. What are META tags? What's the ranking algorithm?
Tips for searching newsgroups. AltaVista Search on my PC.
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Publishing party of the
decade -- list of attendees (to help them stay in touch with one another).
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Favorite search engine: www.altavista.com
Original
AltaVista press release.
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Original AltaVista article, "The
AltaVista Revolution" published in Internet-on-a-Disk back in January
1996.
From Internet-on-a-Disk
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Internet Advice for Newcomers:
Message to my old high school (Holderness School, Plymouth, NH) (en
francais)
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Training, Not Censorship The
Road to Eden is Closed. Need for Cyber-Street-Smarts -- with responses
from Alfred Thompson and Bob Clancy
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The Joy of Being Found:
Want to Connect with Old Friends, Customers, Employer? Try using "Flypaper"
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Suggestion -- No Frills
Web Pages for Community Service Organizations
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The Internet Tug of War
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All that Glitters -- If
I had Bandwidth Enough and Time
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Just Enough Quality
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Up-Dating the Circles Model
-- Value-Added Internet Services
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The AltaVista Revolution
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Video and the Internet
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Will "The News" Go Away?
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The Evolution of Technology
and the Internet
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'Hit-Vitations': What's Going
On? And How Do You Play This Game?
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The Internet -- a New Dimension(remarks
when accepting the Internet Marketing Award at Internet World, June 1994,
plus script of the award-winning video "A Glimpse of the Future")
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Glimpse of the Future Video. broadband
(256K), dialup
(56K). Open this file to see and hear the original three-minute video
with RealPlayer. This video was created by Richard Seltzer and Berthold
Langer in February 1994, when they worked at DEC, half a year before formation
of DEC's Internet Business Group. NCSA (creators of Mosaic, the first Web
browsers) and dozens of other organizations, including Digital's competitors.
distributed thousands of copies of this video, using it to help spread
the word about the business potential of the Web, which, at that time,
many business people found difficult to imagine. Thanks to David Wecker
and Gene Kusekoski for converting this video to a variety of formats.
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The Internet and the Human
Spirit
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The Associative Power --
This Ain't Kansas, Mr. Broadcaster
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Commerce, Democracy, and
the Internet
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We Don't Need Cities Anymore
Reflections on the Meaning of Commerce on the Internet
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Suggested Tactics for Building
an Electronic Library
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An Author's View of Electronic
Rights and the Public Domain
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The Public Domain and the
World Wide Web -- Keep the Frontier Open
Articles that appeared in Internet World Magazine
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Picture Power: The
Web can serve as a family album and hall of fame, Internet World Magazine,
Oct. 1995.
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Personal Touch: by
hosting chat forums, Web publishers can build communities -- and their
businesses, Internet World Magazine, Nov. 1995.
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Heads Up: After you
create your Web site, you need to let everyone know it's there, Internet
World Magazine, , April 1996.
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Priming the Pump:
The potential for Web-based discussion for distance learning is great,
but will people catch on?, Internet World Magazine (on-line edition),
September 1996.
Articles by Richard Seltzer have also appeared in the August 1997 issue
of Information
Technology and Disabilities, in the November 1995 issue of Library
Hi Tech, in TechRepublic
(search for "Engineering content for engineers: the ActiveAnswers solution,"
"Build pilots, not virtual mausoleums"), and in the Cobb newsletter Internet
Search Advantage
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Recommended Internet books
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Review of Weaving the Web
by Tim Berners-Lee
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Review of The Cluetrain Manifesto
by
Rick Levine, Christopher Locke, Doc Searls, and David Weinberger
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Review of The Cathedral and
the Bazaar by Eric Raymond
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Online Shopping Directory
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Part 1: General
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Part 2: Categories --
cars, books, music, videos, real estate
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Part 3: Categories --
money, groceries, computers and software, travel
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Part 4: (under construction)
Categories
-- Health, gifts, collectibles, live entertainment, toys, clothing, education,
furniture
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Online Media Contact List
(new and under construction)
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Links to a hundreds of other
Web sites. (this is being updated now)
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Resources for doing business
on the Internet (this is being updated now)
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Real Results: directory
of successful Web sites (this was active 1995-96, and is now of historical
interest)
DEC/Digital
Cyber-Movie Reviews These reviews were published in Media Wave magazine.
For further info, contact the editor, John
Shinnick.
The Readers' Room and Writers' Showcase
This area has several related purposes: to share book recommendations and
reviews with avid readers, to serve as a showcase for writers who are looking
for readers, and to point people to Web sites devoted to writers and electronic
books. Feedback is greatly appreciated. Please let us know about your favorite
books and related Web sites, and also let us know your reactions to the
works posted here. Richard Seltzer, seltzer@samizdat.com
Readers' room
What I've read
Alphabetical lists -- authors
A-D, authors E-K ,
authors
L-Q, authors R-Z
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Chronological lists: 2005,
2004,2003,2002,2001,2000,
1999,
1998,
1997,
1996,
1995,
1994,
1993,
1992,
1991,
1990,
1989,
1988,1987,
1986,
1985,1984,
1983,
1982,
1981,
1980,
1979,
1978,
1977,1976,
1975,
1974,1973,
1972,
1971,
1970,
1969,1968,
1967,1966,
1965,
1964,
1963,
1962,
1961,1960,
1958-59
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Year-by-year score
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Books I want to read next
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Books begun, but never
finished
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Uncollected articles and
short stories read (starting 1997)
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Thoughts about books I recently
read
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Gifts -- Books and music
recently bought as gifts
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Book reviews and criticism
by Richard Seltzer
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A Day in the Life of a Surgeon (Saturday by
Ian McEwan)
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Thank you, Matthew
Pearl (a review of The Dante Club)
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The Bombast Transcripts by
Christopher Locke
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Smart Mobs by Howard Rheingold
reviewed
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Small Pieces Loosely
Joined by David Weinberger
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Justice My Brother
by Roberta Kalechofsky
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Another look at Moliere's
l'Avare
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Dryden's exemplary drama
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Mercy Warren: Conscience
of the American Revolution a review of "The Rise, Progress and Termination
of the American Revolution"
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Blinded at Birth, poems
by Diane Croft
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House Call to the Past
by Janet Elaine Smith
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Introduction to the world
next door -- Sadie's Song by Linda Hall
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What a difference a translation
makes -- The Iliad translated by Robert Fagles
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At the end of the tunnel
-- vibrating strings, some of which are light: the world can be known,
The Elegant Universe by Brian Greene
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Multiple reflecting mirrors:
Fiction about fiction, fictitious biography about fictitious biography--
The Biographer's Tale by A.S. Byatt and The Notebooks of Lana Skimnest
by Anselm Atkins
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China today -- The
Search for Modern China by Jonathan Spence, Soul Mountain by Gao Xingjian,
When We Were Orphans by Kazuo Ishiguro, and The Bonesetter's Daughter by
Amy Tan
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Enjoying Faulkner
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Powerbook by Jeanette
Winterson
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Cultural interpreters,
opening foreign worlds
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Getting the story
right. Chocolat: the movie and the novel
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Why great companies fail:
The
Innovator's Dilemma by Clayton Christensen and Living on the Fault Line
by Geoffrey Moore
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What's my line? a review
of Mason & Dixon by Thomas Pynchon
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Granta -- more than
a literary magazine
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Old-fashioned fun and
mutability in Barth's Sot-Weed Factor
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The Gift by Patrick O'Leary
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Pilgrim in a modern hell
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Trying to enjoy Bellow
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The New New Thing by
Michael Lewis
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The speculative fiction
of Patrick O'Leary and Victor Pelevin
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What Remains to be Discovered
by John Maddox
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Buddha's Little Finger
by Victor Pelevin
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High Stakes, No Prisoners by Charles Ferguson
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Read Harry aloud --
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by J.K. Rowling
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The resurrection of the
Good Soldier Svejk. New translation bring sclassic comedy to life.
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Rapping with Socrates,
a review of The Consolations of Philosophy by Alain de Botton
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Plowing the Dark by
Richard Powers
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Fierce Invalids Home
from Hot Climates by Tom Robbins
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Metro by Jeff Edmunds
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Nothing matters -- it matters
a lot. Review of "Perfect Vacuum" by Stanislaw Lem
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Punktown by Jeffrey
Thomas
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White Teeth by Zadie
Smith
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Anil's Ghost by Michael
Ondaatje
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The History of the
Siege of Lisbon by Jose Saramago
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November 1916 by Alexander
Solzhenitsyn
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Quest for the Jade Sea
by Pascal James Imperato
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Shakespeare would
love it -- Gertrude and Claudius by John Updike
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Having fun with Einstein
and politics -- Einstein's Bridge by John Cramer
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Transforming history
from narrative to science -- Guns, Germs, and Steel by Jared Diamond
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Messiah soul brothers
-- Ender, Bean, and Harry Potter
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Katheryn's Secret by Linda
Hall
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One Vermeer painting,
two works of fiction
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The Cathedral and the Bazaar
by Eric Raymond
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The importance of listening
(more about The Cluetrain Manifesto)
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The Cluetrain Manifesto by
Rick Levine, Christopher Locke, Doc Searls, and David Weinberger
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Weaving the Web : The Original
Design and Ultimate Destiny of the World Wide Web by Tim Berners-Lee
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The slavery that was
Rome (in Plautus, Terence, and Petronius)
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The real story of Around
the World in 80 Days
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Why I'm addicted to
Robert Parker, despite and because of all his faults
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Anticipation in Consciousness
Explained by Daniel Dennett, How Proust Can Change Your Life by Alain de
Botton, The Language Instinct by Steven Pinker, and The Dilbert Future
by Scott Adams
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The Other Herodotus
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Scifi thoughts prompted
by Song of the Dodo by David Quammen
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Infinite Jest by David
Foster Wallace
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The Three Musketeers
and its sequels by Alexandre Dumas
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A Widow for One Year
by John Irving
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The Border Trilogy
by Cormac McCarthy
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The Age of Spiritual
Machines by Ray Kurzweil
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The Sea Came in at
Midnight by Steve Erickson
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Taking a Fresh Look
at The Story of Civilization by Will and Ariel Durant
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Making Sense of the Internet
Business Environment, a review of 'The Great Disruption' by Francis
Fukuyama
Book reviews by Deane
Rink
Has the News Become Like
the Neutrino, a speech by Deane Rink
The Role of the Arts
in Times of Peril, an essay by Deane Rink
Centurion the Younger,
a poem by Deane Rink
Books read by Timothy Seltzer
(age 14)
Recommendations and comments
about books from other enthusiastic readers
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Dialogue on favorite books with Deane Rink before and during his latest
trek to Antarctica, with a note from Bill Ransom and contributions from
Jonathan Loschi (a.k.a. Bookbabble 101) --a very long and rapidly growing
document (a.k.a. Bookbabble 101) Part
1 (starting 9/2/96), Part
2 (starting 11/17/96)
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Correspondence with Authors
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Encounters with Authors
The Name of Hero by Richard Seltzer. an historical novel based
on the life of Alexander Bulatovich, a Russian who was an explorer in Ethiopia,
and a cavalry officer during Russia's conquest of Manchuria in 1900. Later,
as a monk at Mount Athos, he led a group of "heretics" who challenged the
hierarchy of the Russian Orthodox Church, asserting the divinity of the
Name of God. Hard cover.
Everything
But the Internet gathers the complete non-Internet works
of Richard Seltzer on CD, in plain text, with software that lets you listen
as well as read. It includes: The Name of Hero, Ethiopia Through Russian
Eyes, The Lizard of Oz, Without a Myth, Spit and Polish, Mercy, Rights
Crossing, short stories, articles, book reviews, and poems.
Ethiopia
Through Russian Eyes by Alexander Bulatovich, translated by Richard Seltzer.
Unique and detailed first-hand account of Ethiopia in 1896-98 -- at the
change of an era -- by a Russian officer with remarkable understanding
for the many varied people who lived there and keen insight into their
destiny.
Web
Business Boot Camp: Hands-on Internet lessons for manager, entrepreneurs,
and professionals by Richard Seltzer (Wiley, 2002).
No-nonsense guide targets activities that anyone can perform to achieve
online business success.
Reviews.
This site is Published by B&R Samizdat Express, 33 Gould St., West
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