Book details of 'Best of the Net'

Title	Best of the Net
Author(s)	Seth Godin
ISBN	1568843135
Language	English
Published	March 1995
Publisher	Hungry Minds, Inc

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Reviewer Rob Slade wrote:
Gee, it's rather gratifying to find your name in the acknowledgements section, even if you had nothing to do with the book, can't find any contribution you made, and can't, in fact, find your name mentioned thereafter. (Judging by my friends in the list, I think our names were copied from the VIRUS-L FAQ.) The book is supposedly made up of recommendations from "a group of Internet experts" and "numbers of motivated, involved, smart people". But, as they say in the academic papers, the study was flawed. Godin sent out a request for people to send him stuff, so the study sample "self selected" for people who had nothing better to do. Quick reality check. Do we have RISKS? No. Oak? No. Net-happenings? No. alt.best.of.internet or usenet? No. RTFM? Yes (once). The Vatican exhibit? No. rec.humor.funny? No (well, maybe fair comment). News of the Weird? Yes. This Is True? No. What we do have, here, are two hundred "topics", all two pages long. Each has a few (very few) net references, mostly newsgroups. (A lot of the other "references" are "veronica".) Some references are long out of date (and the computer virus citations are awful). There are random pieces of information-- extracts from newsgroup postings or FAQ listings, and often a picture from somewhere. These have no proper citations at all. copyright Robert M. Slade, 1995
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