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My Internet: a Personal View of Internet Business Opportunities by Richard Seltzer

My Internet: a Personal View of Internet Business Opportunities
My Internet: a Personal View of Internet Business Opportunities
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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. You can copy any of these files onto your hard drive for convenience, or make an archival copy of the CD, as backup in case of damage to the original.

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BOOKS

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!
    • html version
    • plain text version
  • Chapter 1: What you can do to fix your existing site
    • html version
    • plain text version
    related articles:
    • "The power of words on the Internet -- Content-based Internet marketing"
      • html version
      • plain text version
      • text plus audio version (RealPlayer)
    • "What belongs on a Web page, and why?"
      • html version
      • plain text version
    • "Advice to a friend redesigning a company Web site"
      • html version
      • plain text version
    • "How to use content to attract traffic to your Web site, even when branding rules saddle you with a search-engine unfriendly design"
      • html version
      • plain text version
    • "The leap to multimedia -- It all depends on disk space"
      • html version
      • plain text version
    • "The future of the Internet and the future of business"
      • plain text version
      • html version
      • text plus audio (RealPlayer)
  • Chapter 2: How to build free Web pages
    • html version
    • plain text version
    related articles:
    • "How to Design Web pages without learning HTML"
      • plain text version
      • html version
    • "The Content Question -- Okay, I have Web space. Now what am I going to put there?"
      • plain text version
      • html version
    • "Who Owns What?" [the copyright question]
      • plain text version
      • html version
    • "How to Build a Personal Web Site -- the Broader Implications of Search Engines"
      • plain text version
      • html version
  • Chapter 3: How to publicize your Web site
    • html version
    • plain text version
    related articles:
    • "Search engines and directories: when to use which"
      • html version
      • plain text version
    • "Tutorial: AltaVista Search -- How to get the most out of it"
      • html version
      • plain text version
    • "Misconceptions about 'search engine optimization'"
      • html version
      • plain text version
    • "Make navigation easy for visitors and search engine crawlers: Build a sitemap page"
      • html version
      • plain text version
    • "Search engine submissions -- links to the key pages"
      • plain text version
      • html version
    • "How to publicize your Web site over the Internet"
      • plain text version
      • html version
    • "How to make chat work for your online business"
      • plain text version
      • html version
    • "Going fishing -- hooking Web page visitors and turning them into customers"
      • plain text version
      • html version
    • "Using stats to improve your site"
      • plain text version
      • html version

The Social Web: how to build a successful personal or business Web site (1997, 1998).

  • From "Flypaper" to Social Web (preface)
    • html version
    • plain text version
  • Let People Find You -- Putting "Flypaper" to Work (introduction)
    • html version
    • plain text version
  • Basic Building Blocks of the Social Web (chapter 1)
    • html version
    • plain text version
  • How to Design Web Pages Without Learning HTML (chapter 2)
    • html version
    • plain text version
  • The Content Question -- Okay, I have Web space. Now what am I going to put there? (chapter 3)
    • html version
    • plain text version
  • Who Owns What? (chapter 4)
    • html version
    • plain text version
  • How to Build a Personal Web Site -- the Broader Implications of Search Engines (chapter 5)
    • html version
    • plain text version
  • How to publicize your Web site over the Internet (chapter 6)
    • html version
    • plain text version
  • Making your site global -- taking advantage of free translation at AltaVista (chapter7)
    • html version
    • plain text version

The Way of the Web  lessons from the Internet -- how to adapt to the new business environment (1995).

  • Epigraph -- "The Way of the Web"
    • html version
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  • Will the Real Tomorrowland Please Step Forward?" (Introduction)
    • html version
    • plain text version
  • The Giants Wore Velcro on their Shoulders (Chapter 1)
    • html version
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  • Wake Up: Tomorrow Happened Yesterday (Chapter 2)
    • html version
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  • What's the Razor and What's the Razor Blade (Chapter 3)
    • html version
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  • Curious Technology (Chapter 4)
    • html version
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  • Building Communities on the Internet (Chapter 5)
    • html version
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  • And the Blind Shall Lead Them: New Ways to Perceive Cyberspace (Chapter 6)
    • html version
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  • Anonymity for Fun and Deception: The Other Side of Community (Chapter 7)
    • html version
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  • Identity, Motivation, and Community (Chapter 8)
    • html version
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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?
    • html version
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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.
      • html version
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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.
      • html version
      • plain text version
    • 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.
      • html version
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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
      • html version
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    • Chapter Five -- computers and software
      • html version
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    • Chapter Six -- travel
      • html version
      • plain text version
    • Chapter Seven -- food
      • html version
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    • Chapter Eight -- money, including loans, insurance, and investments
      • html version
      • plain text version
    • Chapter Nine -- cars
      • html version
      • plain text version
    • Chapter Ten -- real estate, including houses, apartments, and roommates
      • html version
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  • More shopping ideas and resources (the appendices)
    • html version
    • plain text version
  • Bio of the author and why he wrote this book
    • html version
    • plain text version
  • Acknowledgements and thank you's
    • html version
    • plain text version

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
    • plain text version
    • html version (with links to the Web)
  • Quick advice about Internet business
    • plain text version

      • 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
    • plain text
    • html (with one illustration)
  • 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
    • take advantage as a seller: details that pay
  • 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
Weekly columns by Richard Seltzer for sellers at online auctions written for GoTo Auctions (AKA Auction Rover)
  • 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.
Articles by Richard Seltzer dealing with the business model of "flypaper" (creating Web pages with the purpose of being found, rather than going out with a "fly swatter" and trying to find people and information), have appeared in recent issues of his newsletter Internet-on-a-Disk and are part of his book The Social Web.
  • 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
    Web Notes
    • Google Desktop Search
    Book Reviews
      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
    Web Notes
    • 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
    Articles
    • 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
    Articles
    • Selling Your Own Stuff at eBay -- Updated Tips for Serious Sellers

      • Surviving as a Small Company in the Age of Google
    Internet-on-a-Disk #59, May 2003
    • 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
    Internet-on-a-Disk #58, April 2003
    • 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
    Internet-on-a-Disk #57, March 2003
    • 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
    Internet-on-a-Disk #56, February 2003
    • 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
        • The Bombast Transcripts by Christopher Locke, reviewed by Richard Seltzer
    • Articles
      • Forget key words
    Internet-on-a-Disk #55, January 2003
    • 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
    Internet-on-a-Disk #54, December 2002
    • 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
    Internet-on-a-Disk #53, November 2002

    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
    Book Reviews
    • Smart Mobs by Howard Rheingold, mark this one "must read"
    Dialogues on current issues
    • Dialogue about metatags with important information about Google ranking
    Articles
    • 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
    Internet-on-a-Disk #52, October 2002

    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
    Education:
    • Using Yoda to teach English
    Book Reviews:
    • Small Pieces Loosely Joined by David Weinberger
    Articles
    • Coping with email pollution -- viruses, scams and spam
    • Clues to online success in today's down business environment
    Internet-on-a-Disk #51, April-May 2002
    Ebook News:
    • B&R Samizdat Express
    • Course about using books on CD ROM in the classroom
    • Fiction by Roberta Kalechofsky
    Web Notes:
    • Book reviews by Deane Rink
    • Handy guide to events in New York City
    Education
    • Mindlabs
    Curious Technology:
    • SiteChatter
    Articles:
    • 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
    Internet-on-a-Disk #50, March 2002
    • 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?
    Internet-on-a-Disk #49, November-December 2001
    Off-the-Wall Ideas
      Commercial sponsorship of military units and vehicles :-)
    Articles --
      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
    Internet-on-a-Disk #48, October 2001
    Off-the-Wall Ideas --
      You Can't Take It With You. com, a business airline with no luggage and no carry-ons
    Etexts --
      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
    Articles
      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
    Internet-on-a-Disk #47, September 2001

    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
    Internet-on-a-Disk #46, May 2001
    Curious technology --
      Free search dedicated to your Web site
      Free automatic translation to and from dozens of languages
      Automatic translation with free chat service
    Web notes
      Audio-text books
    Articles --
      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
    New electronic texts --
      from Bartleby
      from Gutenberg
    Internet-on-a-Disk #45, January/Feruary 2001
    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"
    New electronic texts -- from Gutenberg
    Internet-on-a-Disk #43, November 2000
    Curious Technology
      Your private disk drive on the Web
    Articles
      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
    Internet-on-a-Disk #42, October 2000
    Web Notes --
      Web Business Boot Camp
      The Internet Archive
    Curious Technology --
      Javapuzzlecards
      eBookIt
    Articles --
      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
    New electronic texts -- from Gutenberg
    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
    Internet-on-a-Disk #40, August 2000
    Curious Technology --
      Use email to "beam" information to other palm users
      Use live text chat to help your Web visitors
      Get free voicemail
    Web notes --
      Start the day with the start of a good book
    Articles --
      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
    Book Review --
      High Stakes, No Prisoners by Ferguson
    New electronic texts --
      from Gutenberg
    Letters to the editor --
      Weight and exercise, from Alfred Thompson
    Internet-on-a-Disk #39, July 2000
      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
    Internet-on-a-Disk #38, June 2000
      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
    Internet-on-a-Disk #37, May 2000
      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
    Internet-on-a-Disk #36, April 2000
      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
    Internet-on-a-Disk #35, March 2000
      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
    Internet-on-a-Disk #34, February 2000
      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
    Internet-on-a-Disk #33, January 2000
      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
    Internet-on-a-Disk #32, December 1999
      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
    Internet-on-a-Disk #31, November 1999
      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
    Internet-on-Disk #30, October 1999
      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
    Internet-on-a-Disk #29, September 1999
      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
    Internet-on-a-Disk #28, March 1999
      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
    Internet-on-a-Disk #27, January - February 1999
      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
    Internet-on-a-Disk #26, December 1998
      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
    Internet-on-a-Disk #25, September -October 1998
      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
    Internet-on-a-Disk #24, August 1998
      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
    Internet-on-a-Disk #23, July 1998
      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
    Internet-on-a-Disk #22, June 1998
      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
    Internet-on-a-Disk #21, August 1997
      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
    Internet-on-a-Disk #20, April 1997
      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
    Internet-on-a-Disk #19, February 1997
      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
    Internet-on-a-Disk #18, September 1996