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My Internet: a Personal View of Internet Business Opportunities by Richard Seltzer
Product Description
The five books, over 160 articles, and 65 newsletter issues on this CD will inspire you and give you the
practical information you need to build your own personal Web site or profitable Internet-based
business, helping you to become a player, rather than just an observer/consumer in this new business
environment. Intended for use on Windows PCs, the texts on this CD are presented in and/or HTML,
organized for easy access, and readable with your browser or word processor.
If you are connected to the Internet, you can use the links in the HTML version
to connect to the pages and sites mentioned. In addition, 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.
No-nonsense guide targets activities that anyone can perform to achieve
online business success.
Ebook News:
Off-the-Wall Ideas
Off-the-Wall Ideas --
Curious technology --
Curious technology -- free translation for Japanese Chinese and Korean
Internet-on-a-Disk #43, November 2000
Curious Technology
Web Notes --
Internet-on-a-Disk #41, September 2000
Curious Technology --
Ebook News:
Off-the-Wall Ideas
Off-the-Wall Ideas --
Curious technology --
Curious technology -- free translation for Japanese Chinese and Korean
Internet-on-a-Disk #43, November 2000
Curious Technology
Web Notes --
Internet-on-a-Disk #41, September 2000
Curious Technology --
For 19 years (up until 1998), Richard Seltzer worked for Digital Equipment, then Compaq, 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. For Digital, he wrote The AltaVista Search Revolution, which Library Journal called "indispensable."
Now, as an independent Internet marketing consultant, he has written Web Business Bootcamp, Shop Online the Lazy Way, and Take Charge of Your Web Site.
In addition, Richard writes fiction and runs his own small publishing business on the Internet. His acclaimed Web site (www.samizdat.com) serves as a test ground for his Internet business ideas. His fiction includes: The Name of Hero, The Lizard of Oz, and Now & Then & Other Tales from Ome. You can reach him at seltzer@samizdat.com
"Talking" software included on this book CD:
- 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
Web
Business Boot Camp: Hands-on Internet lessons for manager, entrepreneurs,
and professionals (originally published by Wiley, 2002)
No-nonsense guide targets activities that anyone can perform to achieve
online business success.
- 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)
You need to get the most out of Web pages that are critical to your business. You suspect that something is wrong—the results just aren't matching expectations. You may be tempted to invest even more on design or on advertising or on both (not realizing that the expensive design you already have could be preventing people from finding your pages naturally). You feel out of control. You don't understand your options, don't understand how details of design can affect traffic. You may not even know what questions to ask. Hence you don't know what to tell the experts to do. Here you'll find one set of lessons that can help solve the problems of four kinds of business people: 1.The independent professional with his or her own Web site.2.The CEO or marketing manager for a startup or a small focused company. 3.The manager or marketing manager of a department or group within a large, diverse company. 4.The Internet technical expert suddenly given broader responsibility.- Introduction: My Web site was supposed to bring me new business. Help!
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- plain text version
- Chapter 1: What you can do to fix your existing site
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- "The power of words on the Internet -- Content-based Internet marketing"
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- text plus audio version (RealPlayer)
- "What belongs on a Web page, and why?"
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- "Advice to a friend redesigning a company Web site"
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- "How to use content to attract traffic to your Web site, even when branding rules saddle you with a search-engine unfriendly design"
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- "The leap to multimedia -- It all depends on disk space"
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- "The future of the Internet and the future of business"
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- text plus audio (RealPlayer)
- Chapter 2: How to build free Web pages
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- "How to Design Web pages without learning HTML"
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- "The Content Question -- Okay, I have Web space. Now what am I going to put there?"
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- "Who Owns What?" [the copyright question]
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- "How to Build a Personal Web Site -- the Broader Implications of Search Engines"
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- Chapter 3: How to publicize your Web site
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- "Search engines and directories: when to use which"
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- "Tutorial: AltaVista Search -- How to get the most out of it"
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- "Misconceptions about 'search engine optimization'"
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- "Make navigation easy for visitors and search engine crawlers: Build a sitemap page"
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- "Search engine submissions -- links to the key pages"
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- "How to publicize your Web site over the Internet"
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- "How to make chat work for your online business"
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- "Going fishing -- hooking Web page visitors and turning them into customers"
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- "Using stats to improve your site"
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The Social Web: how to build a successful personal or business Web site (1997, 1998).
- From "Flypaper" to Social Web (preface)
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- Let People Find You -- Putting "Flypaper" to Work (introduction)
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- Basic Building Blocks of the Social Web (chapter 1)
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- How to Design Web Pages Without Learning HTML (chapter 2)
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- The Content Question -- Okay, I have Web space. Now what am I going to put there? (chapter 3)
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- Who Owns What? (chapter 4)
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- How to Build a Personal Web Site -- the Broader Implications of Search Engines (chapter 5)
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- How to publicize your Web site over the Internet (chapter 6)
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- Making your site global -- taking advantage of free translation at AltaVista (chapter7)
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The Way of the Web lessons from the Internet -- how to adapt to the new business environment (1995).
- Epigraph -- "The Way of the Web"
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- Will the Real Tomorrowland Please Step Forward?" (Introduction)
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- The Giants Wore Velcro on their Shoulders (Chapter 1)
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- Wake Up: Tomorrow Happened Yesterday (Chapter 2)
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- What's the Razor and What's the Razor Blade (Chapter 3)
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- Curious Technology (Chapter 4)
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- Building Communities on the Internet (Chapter 5)
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- And the Blind Shall Lead Them: New Ways to Perceive Cyberspace (Chapter 6)
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- Anonymity for Fun and Deception: The Other Side of Community (Chapter 7)
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- Identity, Motivation, and Community (Chapter 8)
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Shop Online the Lazy Way (originally published by Macmillan, 1999)
When the Lazy Way editors asked me to write a book about online shopping, I jumped at the chance, because online "shopping" involves a variety of tasks--not just clicking to well-known sites, throwing some items in a "shopping cart," and making a credit card transaction. Online shopping also involves auctions, newsgroups, chats, and forums. It involves making your own Web pages, and selling items, as well as buying. Online Shopping The Lazy Way is yet another way to spread the Internet "gospel"--that anyone can become an active player, not just a passive consumer--that anyone can learn to take advantage of the Internet's full power.- IntroductionWhy shop Online?
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- 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.
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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:
- 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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INTERNET BUSINESS INSIGHTS, speeches -- text with audio narration that you can hear with RealAudio, and a classic video
- The future of the Internet and the future of business
- The power of words on the Internet: Content-based Internet marketing
- Why didn't the walls come tumbling down? An outsider's view of distance education
- The Internet -- a New Dimension (remarks when accepting the first ever Internet Marketing Award at Internet World, June 1994, plus script of the award-winning video "A Glimpse of the Future")
- Glimpse of the Future Video, open this file (social implications\glimpse.avi) to see and hear the original video with RealPlayer. This video was created by Richard Seltzer and Berthold Langer in February 1994, when they worked in the Internet Business Group at Digital Equipment. 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.
General Reference -- tips and Qs and As especially useful for newcomers
- Ask Richard: free advice on Web design and marketing -- questions and "expert" answers
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- Quick advice about Internet business
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html version (with links to the Web)
ARTICLES
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
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- 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
- 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
take
advantage as a seller: details that pay
- 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
NB -- While working for Digital Equipment as "Internet evangelist," Richard Seltzer wrote the book The AltaVista Search Revolution, published by Osborne/McGraw-Hill in 1997 and re-issued in a second edition in 1998. That book is still in print.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
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
Off-the-Wall Ideas- 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
Off-the-Wall Ideas- 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
Off-the-Wall Ideas- 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
Web Notes- 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
- Articles
- Forget key words
- The Bombast Transcripts by Christopher Locke, reviewed by Richard Seltzer
- 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
Ebook News:
- 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?
Off-the-Wall Ideas
- 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
Off-the-Wall Ideas --
- 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
Curious technology --
- 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
Curious technology -- free translation for Japanese Chinese and Korean
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"
Internet-on-a-Disk #43, November 2000
Curious Technology
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 Notes --
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
Internet-on-a-Disk #41, September 2000
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
Curious Technology --
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
PLEASE
COPY THIS DISK
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
PLEASE
COPY THIS DISK
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)
You need to get the most out of Web pages that are critical to your business. You suspect that something is wrong—the results just aren't matching expectations. You may be tempted to invest even more on design or on advertising or on both (not realizing that the expensive design you already have could be preventing people from finding your pages naturally). You feel out of control. You don't understand your options, don't understand how details of design can affect traffic. You may not even know what questions to ask. Hence you don't know what to tell the experts to do. Here you'll find one set of lessons that can help solve the problems of four kinds of business people: 1.The independent professional with his or her own Web site.2.The CEO or marketing manager for a startup or a small focused company. 3.The manager or marketing manager of a department or group within a large, diverse company. 4.The Internet technical expert suddenly given broader responsibility.- Introduction: My Web site was supposed to bring me new business. Help!
- Chapter 1: What you can do to fix your existing site
- "The power of words on the Internet -- Content-based Internet marketing"
- Chapter 2: How to build free Web pages
- "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
- "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
related articles:
"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"
related articles:
related articles:
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)
Shop Online the Lazy Way (originally published by Macmillan, 1999)
When the Lazy Way editors asked me to write a book about online shopping, I jumped at the chance, because online "shopping" involves a variety of tasks--not just clicking to well-known sites, throwing some items in a "shopping cart," and making a credit card transaction. Online shopping also involves auctions, newsgroups, chats, and forums. It involves making your own Web pages, and selling items, as well as buying. Online Shopping The Lazy Way is yet another way to spread the Internet "gospel"--that anyone can become an active player, not just a passive consumer--that anyone can learn to take advantage of the Internet's full power.- 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
NB -- While working for Digital Equipment as "Internet evangelist," Richard Seltzer wrote the book The AltaVista Search Revolution, published by Osborne/McGraw-Hill in 1997 and re-issued in a second edition in 1998. That book is still in print.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
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 nade? 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 -- with responses from Alfred Thompson and Bob Clancy
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?
- 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
Social implications of the Internet
- Internet Advice for Newcomers: Message to my old high school (Holderness School, Plymouth, NH) (en francais)
- 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 -- 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")
- 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
- Who we are
- 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
- Richard Seltzer's hyperbio
Can
we help you build an Internet business?
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
Off-the-Wall Ideas- 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
Off-the-Wall Ideas- 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
Off-the-Wall Ideas- 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
Web Notes- 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
- Articles
- Forget key words
- The Bombast Transcripts by Christopher Locke, reviewed by Richard Seltzer
- 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
Ebook News:
- 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?
Off-the-Wall Ideas
- 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
Off-the-Wall Ideas --
- 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
Curious technology --
- 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
Curious technology -- free translation for Japanese Chinese and Korean
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"
Internet-on-a-Disk #43, November 2000
Curious Technology
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 Notes --
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
Internet-on-a-Disk #41, September 2000
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
Curious Technology --
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
PLEASE
COPY THIS DISK
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
PLEASE
COPY THIS DISK
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
For 19 years (up until 1998), Richard Seltzer worked for Digital Equipment, then Compaq, 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. For Digital, he wrote The AltaVista Search Revolution, which Library Journal called "indispensable."
Now, as an independent Internet marketing consultant, he has written Web Business Bootcamp, Shop Online the Lazy Way, and Take Charge of Your Web Site.
In addition, Richard writes fiction and runs his own small publishing business on the Internet. His acclaimed Web site (www.samizdat.com) serves as a test ground for his Internet business ideas. His fiction includes: The Name of Hero, The Lizard of Oz, and Now & Then & Other Tales from Ome. You can reach him at seltzer@samizdat.com
"Talking" software included on this book CD:
Text-to-voice conversion software can allow you to hear as well as read these books. So you can test this capability and decide if it might be valuable to you, we include the include the installation file for ReadPlease 2003 on this CD. You can use that file to install a trial copy of ReadPlease Plus, which is a commercial-quality product and can read files of any size. This trial copy is good for 30 days, after which, if you wish, you could buy a license from ReadPlease for $49.95. As an alternative, you can use that same file to install their free version, which doesn't expire, but which can only handle 16K of text at a time; which means that to read a book, you would have to copy and paste one peice of text after another.
When the rapid, automatic 10 Mbyte installation is done, you will be able to open ReadPlease by clicking on an icon on your desktop. 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.
When you run ReadPlease, you see the text, with yellow highlighting moving from one word to the next, while you hear that same text. And you can at any time edit the text in the video window. Just position your cursor, click you mouse, and tuype whatever you like -- for instance, annotation or marks to show where you last stopped reading. Then save the edited file on your hard drive.
Please keep in mind that ReadPlease is their software not ours. They are the experts on it. You can listen to samples at their site www.readplease.com, where you can also see detailed help files.
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