The WELL: inkwell.vue.109: Wendy Grossman: From Anarchy to Power: The Net Comes of Age

#123: Amazon.com sales ranking: 1,304,455 (wendyg) Wed 19 Sep 01 16:27

Wed, 19 Sep 2001 16:27:00 PDT

Er, yes, months ago, and thanks for noticing. The book also had a nice review in the Independent here, but it's no longer online.

If anyone has seen a review in the US, I would love to have it brought to my attention. AFAICT, it hasn't been looked at *anywhere*.

wg [Read entire topic]

#122: Gail Williams (gail) Thu 19 Jul 01 09:45

Thu, 19 Jul 2001 09:45:00 PDT

Excellent! [Read entire topic]

#121: Erik Van Thienen (levant) Thu 19 Jul 01 01:24

Thu, 19 Jul 2001 01:24:00 PDT

A very flattering book review of "From Anarchy to Power" in last week's New Scientist :

"Don't confuse it with the usual run of nerdy "how to..." books. From Anarchy to Power is an excellent, highly informative book. It cannot be recommended highly enough. Anyone concerned about the future."

<http://news.newscientist.com/opinion/opbooks.jsp?id=ns229911> [Read entire topic]

#120: someone who just sucked on a dill pickle (wendyg) Sat 5 May 01 15:10

Sat, 05 May 2001 15:10:00 PDT

Current Amazon.com sales ranking: 1,304,455

wg [Read entire topic]

#119: Gail Williams (gail) Sat 5 May 01 14:29

Sat, 05 May 2001 14:29:00 PDT

Hope the book goes far and well! [Read entire topic]

#118: Paul Bissex (biscuit) Sat 5 May 01 08:22

Sat, 05 May 2001 08:22:00 PDT

This lurker says: thanks, Wendy. [Read entire topic]

#117: George Hunka (tally) Sat 5 May 01 05:35

Sat, 05 May 2001 05:35:00 PDT

Thanks, Wendy. Glad to have had the chance to chat with you. [Read entire topic]

#116: Jon Lebkowsky (jonl) Sat 5 May 01 04:10

Sat, 05 May 2001 04:10:00 PDT

Looking forward to it! [Read entire topic]

#115: someone who just sucked on a dill pickle (wendyg) Sat 5 May 01 02:21

Sat, 05 May 2001 02:21:00 PDT

Well: the net wars continue, basically. I find myself somewhat schizophrenic about it. On the one hand, I do believe that the Net has a lot of resilience to being taken over. On the other hand, I do believe that the threat that megacorps pose to the freedoms we enjoy online is a serious one. I really wish the AOL/Time Warner merger hadn't been allowed to go through; we're already seeing all kinds of cross-marketing -- AOL using Madonna tickets as a lure for new members, etc. I get sort of heartened by the failure (or at least, the corporate cessation of willingness to throw money at) of things like Go, which really are attempts to turn the Net into broadcasting channels. But at the same time, fewer and fewer companies control the bandwidth and access. The downside of broadband is I think -- or it's something I've been wondering about this morning -- going to be more traceability. The RIAA is already talking about ways to find the 1% of Gnutella users who do most of the sharing...

Hopefully, I'll meet you back here in a coupla-three years.

wg [Read entire topic]

#114: Jon Lebkowsky (jonl) Fri 4 May 01 15:31

Fri, 04 May 2001 15:31:00 PDT

Wendy, thanks for joining us at Inkwell.vue! We've covered interesting ground here, and I'm sure folks will be eager to pick up a copy of _From Anarchy to Power_. Any closing comments? [Read entire topic]