He worked for Digital/Compaq for 19 years (until October 1998), focusing on the Internet for the last five years, most recently as "Internet Evangelist." He was one of the handful of people who helped Digital Equipment to recognize and take advantage of new business opportunities on the Internet, and he helped customers understand and adapt to the new business environment.
He frequently writes and speaks on Internet topics, acting as an advocate for more effective use of the Internet for business and education. The second edition of his book The AltaVista Search Revolution was recently published by Osborne/McGraw-Hill. (Library Journal called it "indispensable.") He wrote a consumer book called Shop Online the Lazy Way (1999) published by Macmillan, an ebook Take Charge of Your Web Site for MightyWords(2001), and Web Business Bootcamp for John Wiley and Sons (2002). My Internet: a Personal View of Internet Business Opportunities (B&R Samizdat Express, 2002), available on CD ROM, includes Take Charge of Your Web Site, Shop Online the Lazy Way, and two earlier Internet books of his (The Social Web and The Way of the Web), plus hundreds of related articles. It available from Amazon and from his online store http://store.yahoo.com/samizdat. You can see the table of contents at www.samizdat.com/internetcd.html
He has written weekly columns for AuctionRover and CompareItAll, and his articles on Internet trends were syndicated over the Web by iSyndicate. His weekly chat session on Business on the World Wide Web www.samizdat.com/chat.html is one of the longest-running chat programs on the Web, active since June 1996.
His acclaimed Web site (www.samizdat.com) serves as a test ground for his ideas about Internet business and is frequently cited as an important resource for education and for the blind. There you'll see the Internet the way it was and should be: useful information for free, with no advertising, and no annoying graphics or glitz. That includes his free electronic newsletter on Internet trends (Internet-on-a-Disk, www.samizdat.com/ioad.html).
He has also written novels (The Name of Hero), children's books (The Lizard of Oz), plays (including Without a Myth, recently produced in Spokane, WA), and short stories. His translation from the Russian of two books about Ethiopia -- Ethiopia Through Russian Eyes -- was published by Africa World/Red Sea Press in 2000. His collected non-Internet works are available on CD ROM as Everything but the Internet: Fiction, Plays, and Articles by Richard Seltzer, available from Amazon and from his online store http://store.yahoo.com/samizdat. You can see the table of contents at www.samizdat.com/everythingcd.html
Prior to joining Digital, Richard was editor of such technical trade magazines as Electronics Test and Circuits Manufacturing. He calls himself an "Internet evangelist" because of his passion for the subject and his contagious enthusiasm.
A graduate of Yale ('69), he has a master's degree in Comparative Literature (Russian, French, and German) from the U. of Mass. He lives in Boston with his wife Barbara, and has four extraordinary children. He can be reached at seltzer@samizdat.com
My
Internet: a Personal View of Internet Business Opportunities
by Richard Seltzer, on CD, includes four books, 162 articles, and 49 newsletter
issues that will inspire you and provide the practical information you
need to build your own personal Web site or Internet-based business, helping
you to become a player in this new business environment.
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