Pynchon Fans Online--Wired
News
Adoptees Use Net to Find
Birthparents-My article in
Yahoo! Internet Life
R-Net: Real Estate and the Net
TheDJ
Player: The Internet as a Virtual Jukebox
Arthur
C. Clarke Chapter of The Silicon
Jungle
Washington Post
vs. Webiquette
Let 'Em Eat Nature, Says Cliff
Stoll--Salon
Faster Web
on the Way--N.Y.
Times
(you need a password, but it's free in the U.S.)
56K Modems: The Real Story--
Communications Week
How
Your Old PCs Can Help Kids and Poor People Get on the
Net
Your Web Page in an Electronic
Museum?
Surf Web for "Free"? E-Mail for $10 a
Year? | Reuters Story on "Free" Service
Roger Ebert: Getting the Net Right on
Film--Yahoo! Internet Life
Bill Gates vs. Media Clutter | Gates Parody
in RealAudio
Easy Reading off the Net with New LCD Screens? NetWorld!
Prediction Getting Closer
Kooky
Suit against Unauthorized Web Links
Campaign Sites
as I Reviewed Them
for the Oct. Issue of
Yahoo! Internet Life
Electronic Peace
Corps Proposal
TeleRead Idea
on Washington
Post Op-Ed
Page
NetWorld Update
My wife has been sick, so I haven't been able
to update this area as often as I would like. Many of the outside links
are disgustingly out of date. On the other hand, the internal links all
work, including the one to my No-Frills Home
Page, so enjoy! And thanks for dropping
by! -- David H. Rothman
mailto:mailtodr@davidrothman.com
Updated Sept. 17, 1999
Ordering Information from Prima Publishing
Buying
NetWorld!--Inside or
Outside the U.S.
NetWorld! versus Bill Gates'
$2.5-Million Book, The Road
Ahead
David H.
Rothman's No-Frill's Home Page--recommended by the
Excite search engine
William
F. Buckley, Jr., and James Fallows on NetWorld! 
Fallows
Central: Personal Home Page of Editor of U.S. News
& World Report.
The Unabomber
and the Net: A Media Challenge
The Valentine's
Day Massacre: Biased Washington Post Story Attacks Many-to-Many Net
Model
Post Ombudsman Writes Clueful Column
on Anti-Net Story--But No "Clarification" Comes from News
Side.
Also read
how an anti-Net piece in Washington Times picked up part of the
Post story.
R-Net:
Real Estate and the Net. Scads of useful links--to
help you shop for a mortgage,
for example, or find a first-rate real estate lawyer. Net.business in
action!
Club Love: Ten Million Hits in Two Months. So how's a sex site faring
under the Communications Decency Act? Here's an interview that Scott
Chalen, club executive director, gave Web
Review. Chalen, ex-editor of Hustler, says: "It's much more
difficult for a kid to access some nudity on the Net than it is to go down
to 7-Eleven and buy a Playboy or a Penthouse." Agree or not?
Send me your opinions, and tell me if it's okay for me to quote them here
on this site. Come on, don't be shy!
Pulitzer Prize for Public Service Goes to Raleigh News & Observer. The N&O used
computer-assisted journalism in its series "Boss Hog: North Carolina's
Pork Revolution." Reporters Joby Warrick and Pat Stith followed the smell of the
pork industry--from the odors of rural Carolina to those of the campaign
donations. NetWorld! devotes thousands of words to the
N&O's role on the Net, which is an offshoot of the paper's
long-term interest in databases.
Arthur C.
Clarke Chapter from The Silicon
Jungle
NetWorld! Reader Tells How Cliff
Stoll's Wicked Net Helps Parents-to-Be
TeleRead:
Bring the E-books Home
The net.nannies
Page.
Read of the fat contributions that Bob Dole and other "pro-child"
defenders of net.censorship have gotten from the booze and tobacco
interests.
Scholarly Publishing: The Electronic
Frontier. My TeleRead chapter concludes this information science collection
from The MIT
Press
and the American Society for Information
Science.
R-NET: REAL ESTATE AND THE NET
Oh, how true an old adage is. The Net blurs the distinction between the local and the national (or international). Check out R-Net: Real Estate and the Net for a good example of this.
Not long ago, at a
book-signing here in Alexandria, Virginia, some real estate investors
approached me out of the blue and asked me to speak to them about the Net.
"Hmmm," I thought, "maybe I should show a little mercy and prepare a handout with some
handy links, so they won't have to write it all down." And from there it
was just a nanosecond to the realization that I could turn my handout into
a Web page.
Simultaneously I could add useful information to the Net and, yes, promote NetWorld, just as I'm doing here. As a group, real estate folks are an outgoing, people-oriented bunch. Not all, but many, fear the technology of cyberspace--a far, far cry from the pounding of shoe-leather in Real Space. And so I'm pleased to envangelize. I encourage Netfolk to print out my new page for their friends offline. It isn't just for investors and agents. R-Net: Real Estate and the Net is for everyone from apartment-dwellers and home-hunters to mortgage lenders and real estate lawyers. Suggestions welcome from Net types and real estate people alike!
The purpose of this page is to give an impartial overview--let the different groups learn from each other--rather than beat the drums for any one interest. You'll even find a pointer to a tenants rights page.
ORDERING INFORMATION--INSIDE OR OUTSIDE THE U.S.
NetWorld's ISBN is 0-7615-0013-8, the format is hardback, the standard domestic price is US$22.95, and you can buy or order NetWorld! from scads of local bookstores. Click here for a list of members of the American Booksellers Association in the U.S. and elsewhere.
NetWorld is available, too, through some bookstores on the Web, such as Book Stacks Unlimited and Amazon Books.
You can also order directly from Prima Publishing (distributed in the U.S. by Random House). The telephone number is 916-632-4400 or 1-800-632-8676, and the fax number is 916-632-4405; the e-mail address is steveb@primapub.com. You shouldn't have any problems, but if so, let me know at rothman@clark.net. Contact Prima for the exact price from your location, and for other details.
If you're a non-U.S. publisher interested in rights, please e-mail, phone or fax Diane Durrett, Prima's rights and permissions manager (diane@primapub.com).
NETWORLD! TABLE OF CONTENTS
NetWorld! is 344 pages long and includes seven chapters:
Chapter One: The
Terrain
Chapter Two: Business on the Net:
From White Rabbit Toys to Intel Inside
Chapter Three: EntertaiNet: A Few
Musings on Net.Rock, Leonardo da Vinci, Bill Gates, Bianca's Smut Shack,
and David Letterman in Cyberspace
Chapter Four: Can the Print World
Learn to Love the Net?
Chapter Five: Wired Knowledge: When
They Let a Murderer Loose on the Internet
Chapter Six: Governments and the Net:
Making Sure Orwell Was Wrong
Chapter Seven: The Electronic
Matchmaker
"A considerable achievement. You find
yourself wanting to read NetWorld! even if you have no thought of
baptism into the great new scene." - William F. Buckley,
Jr.
"Best job yet of illustrating exactly
how and why the Internet will change the texture of daily life…Very useful
and entertaining." - James Fallows, Washington editor of The
Atlantic Monthly.