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Whether your second, virtual life has just begun, or you’ve been âin-world" for a long time, a successful and rewarding experience depends on your mastery of design. Everything from your avatar to your home, your clothes to your behavior says something about who you are and the way others see you. In this book Rebecca TapleyââMera Luanâ in SLâshows you how to design everything from bodies to earrings, cars to castles, for improved appearance, function, and usability. Real-world topics such as urban planning, color theory, user experience, interior design, and landscaping are mapped to SL conditions. Learn how to spot the best skin and hair, clothing, architecture and construction, property for sale, and more. In addition, Rebecca’s insights and observations on Second Life etiquette, manners, customs, and other subtle socio-cultural realities will help you make your way through this new and sometimes baffling world. Have a more rewarding second life by learning how to:
- Create a realistic or fantastical avatar
- Make gorgeous clothes and other luxury goods
- Build impressive homes and planned communities
- Develop whole islands
- Establish a social community and career Life.
Customer Reviews:
promises more than it delivers.......2007-08-26
This is a useful book ONLY if you are terribly new to Second Life. I've only been in SL for 3 months and knew everything in the first half of the book. I learned a few things in the second half, but "designing" implies more than what this book offers. It sounded like a book for those who wanted to go beyond editing appearance, but it's not. It only briefly touches on more advanced concepts. If you need beginner's information, try A Beginner's Guide to Second Life or Second Life: the offical guide for a decent tour book.
useful and well organized book.......2007-08-20
After having spent some time on Second Life (SL) I found that I needed somebody to explain to me "how" SL really works. I wasn't interested in a "how-to" guide, SL web site already covers that.
I was looking for information on what's the best way to customize my avatar, and yes I'm getting new hair and new clothes this week (thanks to this book)! I liked the suggestion of paying attention to what's written on my (and others) profile as the first place to go when meeting new people.
The most interesting information I found was around social etiquette, what it means to be "friend" with somebody and when you want to do that. Lots of details that it would have taken me way too much time to find on my own.
Overall it's an easy book to read (a couple days) and well organized. I enjoyed some of the images, I actually ended up going back to SL and looking for some of those places.
Very disappointing.......2007-08-09
Not a how-to (which the author does state), but it does have some how-to-ish sections. There are many misleading opinions, errors of fact, or editorial gaffes:
p. 10: "So using the Search feature in-world is tremendously flexible, scalable, and responsive to whatever updates or other changes might happen to SL at large."
p. 15: "512 sq/m [sic] (the smallest possible parcel)"
p. 16: "Second Life is three hundred and sixty degrees different."
Screen shots are very dark.
Some sections only make sense if you already know what's going on.
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With headlines like Online Danger Zone and Are Teens Saying Too Much Online? appearing in publications like The New York Times, Time, and Newsweek everyday adults are becoming increasingly worried about what kids are really doing on the Internet and with technology today. What are MySpace, Facebook, Xanga, Live Journal? What exactly are teens doing on them? Totally Wired is the first inside guide to explore what teens are doing on the Internet and with technology. Speaking with a cross section of industry professionals and teenagers, Anastasia Goodstein gets to the bottom of how teens use technology as well as the benefits and draw backs of this use.
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Totally Useful.......2007-05-16
If you have teens in your life, you need to read Totally Wired. Goodstein de-mystifies text messaging and social networking, offers common-sense advice on how to manage the security concerns about your teens online time, and provides a `cheat sheet' to help us interpret what's really going on in our teenagers' world.
The best part is that Goodstein really gets teens. Drawing analogies to things that were familiar to us from our youth, she helps us understand that MySpace is really just another place to hang out, that personalizing your own online page is a way for teens to express themselves just as I did by hanging posters in my room or pinning buttons to my denim jacket, and that many teens do need parents to help them understand the boundaries, both offline and online. Reading this book made me remember how much fun it was to be a teenager myself (in between all the drama). And I came away with a new sense of respect for the choices that today's far more empowered teens are making for themselves.
Now if someone would only write a book to help teens understand their parents ...
A definite read!.......2007-04-24
Anastasia really understands tweens and teens. In a very easy read... Totally Wired, Anastasia relays what today's kids are doing to what any generation did when they hit this critical age of child development. Things are not so different... we just have new ways to communicate. And like any generation that had their battles, this generation is learning to know what is and is not appropriate, who I should or should not talk to and how being connected online all the time can affect me and the world around me. As co-creator of Zoey's Room, an online community for tween girls -- I highly recommend all parents and educators to read this and remember what it was like to be that age...
Required Reading.......2007-04-20
Anastasia Goodstein knows teenagers. She has studied them, marketed to them, and talked to them. Don't be turned off because the author is not a parent of a teen. Because Goodstein isn't a parent, she was able to get teens to open up about their online experiences. And she also talked to parents who share there struggles, concerns and perspectives. If you really want to know what your teen is doing online - or if your young child is just starting to go online - buy this book NOW.
What you will learn is that there are dangers on the Internet, and more often the dangers are your child's fellow students. Cyber-bullying from classmates is becoming more a danger to teens than strangers trolling for sex, and Goodstein covers the various methods of cyber-bullying. Considering that teenagers don't always make the right choices, parents do have a lot to worry about.
While Goodstein properly alerts parents to the real dangers of the Internet, she also balances it with realism. Although your teen may not always understand the consequences of what she does online, she probably already knows about the dangers of the Internet and how to protect herself. You'll read comments from real teens about their online experiences. The comments will alarm you and and comfort you all at the same time.
Helpful tips and "insider" information are peppered throughout the pages. Know what a "Code 9" is? Find the answer and more teen code in the book. (Code 9 = parent in the room). Are teens "hooking up" with other teens they meet online? Maybe not as much as you might have been told. Where is the balance between protecting your child and trusting your child? There's not an easy answer but you can find out what other parents are doing successfully.
You will be a better-informed parent after reading this book, even if you think you already know everything about teens' online life. I think of myself has a pretty online-aware parent, but I learned something from reading Totally Wired, and you will too.
For anyone who deals with teens.......2007-04-16
An engaging and enlightening read for adults that live or work with teens. In spite of their total connectedness with friends and the world, teens today are still the same teens of times past. As they strive to figure out who they are, they need adult involvement and guidance in their lives. What intimidates many adults is the fact that they cannot stay ahead of these mind-boggling tech savvy teens. Yet between the great overview of the tech world teens live in and excellent suggestions on how adults can effectively connect and guide teens, much of the intimidation felt evaporates.
Author Goodstein carefully explains all the ways teens are connected, complete with side bar definitions, interviews, resource lists, etc. Ms. Goodstein has done her homework including documented statistics, expert observances and experiences, and summaries of numerous interviews she conducted with both teens and adults who have extensive contact with teens. Whether you know a little or a lot about the world teens live in today this book has much to offer.
A must for every parent, every teacher, every librarian - anyone working with young people!.......2007-04-13
Anastasia know her stuff! With a thorough knowledge of the youth media landscape and an exhaustive and stellar group of people interviewed and profiled - this is a fantastic book! It's a nice and easy read with an amazing amount of information imparted. Anastasia does a great job of pairing what teens are doing online with their developmental traits and needs -- this is not a lost generation - they are simply being teens as teens have always been - in new ways. This book will calm fears, educate parents, educators, lawmakers etc. on the reality of this new wired world. The bottom line with this issue is that parents need to be educated on what their children are doing, and put their "worry" and concern in the right areas - once they learn what's really going on they won't respond to the hype and hysteria that the media at large seems intent on passing on. Every parent, every public and school library MUST get their hands on this - learn it, love it, live it!
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Electronic publishing and electronic means of text and data presentation have changed enormously since the first edition was first published in 1997. This second edition applies traditional principles to today's, modern techniques. In addition to substantial changes on the poster presentations and visual aids chapters, the chapter on proposal writing discusses in more detail grant writing proposals. A new chapter has also been dedicated to international students studying in the United States.
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Customer Reviews:
Great scientific writing primer.......2003-10-21
What else is there to say. Covers papers, theses, and oral presentations. Quite thorough yet not large.
Inspiring reading........2000-08-29
A very inspiring and reminding book for people writing scientific papers.All the figures and citats makes it so funny to read. You don't have to be in the department of agronomy to get a good idea for your paper from this book. After reading I just longed for continuing my writing field with new ideas and it's frontpage is so coulorful so for me it's not only a book but also a piece of art.
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How many times has your PC crashed today? While Gordon Moore's now famous law projecting the doubling of computer power every 18 months has more than borne itself out, it's too bad that a similar trajectory projecting the reliability and usefulness of all that power didn't come to pass, as well. Advances in information technology are most often measured in the cool numbers of megahertz, throughput, and bandwidth--but, for many us, the experience of these advances may be better measured in hours of frustration.
The gap between the hype of the Information Age and its reality is often wide and deep, and it's into this gap that John Seely Brown and Paul Duguid plunge. Not that these guys are Luddites--far from it. Brown, the chief scientist at Xerox and the director of its Palo Alto Research Center (PARC), and Duguid, a historian and social theorist who also works with PARC, measure how information technology interacts and meshes with the social fabric. They write, "Technology design often takes aim at the surface of life. There it undoubtedly scores lots of worthwhile hits. But such successes can make designers blind to the difficulty of more serious challenges--primarily the resourcefulness that helps embed certain ways of doing things deep in our lives."
The authors cast their gaze on the many trends and ideas proffered by infoenthusiasts over the years, such as software agents, "still a long way from the predicted insertion into the woof and warp of ordinary life"; the electronic cottage that Alvin Toffler wrote about 20 years ago and has yet to be fully realized; and the rise of knowledge management and the challenges it faces trying to manage how people actually work and learn in the workplace. Their aim is not to pass judgment but to help remedy the tunnel vision that prevents technologists from seeing larger the social context that their ideas must ultimately inhabit. The Social Life of Information is a thoughtful and challenging read that belongs on the bookshelf of anyone trying to invent or make sense of the new world of information. --Harry C. Edwards
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All New Preface by the Authors
"Should be read by anyone interested in understanding the future." -The Times Literary Supplement
For years pundits have predicted that information technology will obliterate everything-from supermarkets to business organizations to social life itself. But beaten down by info-glut, exasperated by computer crashes, and daunted by the dot com crash, individual users find it hard to get a fix on the true potential of the digital revolution. John Seely Brown and Paul Duguid argue that the gap between digerati hype and end-user gloom is largely due to the "tunnel vision" that information-driven technologies breed. We've become so focused on where we think we ought to be-a place where technology empowers individuals and obliterates social organizations-that we often fail to see where we're really going. The Social Life of Information shows us how to look beyond our obsession with information and individuals to include the critical social networks of which these are always a part.
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John Seely Brown is the Chief Innovation Officer of 12 Entrepreneuring and the Chief Scientist of Xerox. He was the director of the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center (PARC) for ten years.
Paul Duguid is affiliated with Xerox PARC and the University of California, Berkeley.
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Drawing from recent research and practical examples across a range of organizations, The Social Life of Information dispels many of the futurists' sweeping predictions that information technology will obliterate the need for everything from travel to supermarkets to business organizations to social life itself. The authors examine the potential and limitations of technology with regard to intelligent software agents, the automated home office, business reorganization for innovation, knowledge management and work practices, the paperless society, and the digital university. Arguing eloquently for the important role human sociability plays in the world of bits, Brown and Duguid give us an optimistic look beyond the simplicities of information and individuals. They show how a better understanding of the contribution that communities, organizations, and institutions make to learning, knowledge, and judgment can lead to the richest possible use of technology in our work and everyday lives.
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Some good and some old, some nostalgia.......2007-08-11
This work, published in 2000, describes the perils of ignoring social aspects of information flow. The book is dated in certain respects. It spends a lot of time debunking concepts like denationalization and disintermediation that sound today like naïve meanderings from a misspent youth. But there are also good discussions of how social interactions critically influence how work actually gets done. Such interactions are typically ignored in process engineering, which explains among other things why SOX compliance is so painful. Worth reading for that by itself.
Information is not Epiphany.......2007-03-11
I think personally, for me, I realized this was a pretty important book when I became rather bored with it in the middle. "I know all this," I was thinking to myself. While reading it, my mind kept wandering to the social media book I'm trying to write. I kept coming up with new things to write in the book.
Soon, The Social Life of Information was coated with scribbles related to my book.
And then I had to laugh at myself when I realized this was a large part of JSB's & PD's point. I had all the information to come to these little epiphanies, but it was only through the social interaction of reading their book did many of these concepts gel.
These thoughts gelled not because these guys were specifically telling me them, but because reading their book was part of a pattern of practice of my own in social media. Their ideas, my ideas, their experiences, my experiences and information combined to create context. Our social interaction created context.
The More Things Change, The More They Stay The Same.......2007-01-29
In "The Social Life of Information", the authors explore the informational revolution and its drumbeat of futuristic implications. As many thought at the beginning of the internet age, the 'Net would wipe out the big box concept and stores would disappear (i.e. Walmart or Sears), as too would books and etceteras. However, we have come to learn in the last 10 years or so that this did not take place for several reasons, of which, one very important reason is that information has its own social life with respect to content & context. For example, as the authors propose, if a company or organization of managers are primarily information processors, then the new technology and processes would have made organizations flatter with less management. However, as most of us would suspect or have experienced, most organizations only got more management top heavy which is similar to the futuristic assumption that paper too would slowly be obsolete as we continue to consume more paper every year.
As we tend to be social animals, Judgment and discretion are not features of software, but are learned not by the acquisition of facts and rules, but through social relations and participation in human activities. The authors help remind us of this fact as we move forward with new processes and designs.
Good counter-arguement to available books.......2006-12-28
I read this book recently and I thought it was decent but not really great. I liked it because it was a counterpoint to what you always hear about modern technology and globalization. I read some of the Thomas Friedman's books and I thought they were well written and had a great point, but I always was skeptical about his message. It was just too rosy for me: Globalization flattens the world and changes existing power structures. I don't think it's neccessary to describe Friedman's other points and for the most part I think they are valid; I just think that there's more to it than that. This book, on the other hand, is all about taking that with a grain of salt. It really highlights the fact that the new technologies and the information systems really enhance the existing power structure rather than immediately break down existing norms.
The reason I gave this book 2 stars, though, is because I felt that it wasn't the easiest read. I often wondered what the authors were talking about and I had to re-read several passages because I just couldn't follow their logic or they just didn't elaborate enough on the important points. Maybe it was too dry and just not captivating.
An interesting and useful antidote to technotopia.......2005-12-23
Most books on internet and computing are optmistic in a 'infine linear projection' fashion - the common bane of all futurological speculations. Others are characterized by Luddite approaches to technology and media.
Every 'IN' medium is greeted with tremendous enthusiasm or pathological fear. Yet the history of technology and media shows that time and again the course taken by these is very different from the one predicted.
'The Social Life of Information' is one of the rare balanced outlooks on internet and computing technology. Written by eminent information scientists associated with Xerox PARC and University of California, it is based on well grounded empiricism and clear, level-headed reasoning.
The authors warn against a tunnel vision of narrow focus and blind optimism (or pessimism) and state that all problems are not information problems and therefore information by itself can not be the solution. They distinguish the promise of technology and the actual context of use and show how these are related or different.
The eight chapters of the book 'demythify' one or the other popular assumptions about power of information technology to change our lives and put things in context.
In one of the chapters they launch a scathing critique or technology-driven process engineering mania, showing how process engineering often ignores people, and even -- more seriously --actual practices that help solve problems.
In another they make useful distinction between knowledge and information and explain why knowledge management is not simply a question of using tools in isolation but of one of communities empowered through tools.
In yet another they explain the paradox why paper consumption has increased with increase in sales of computers and why we have not moved to a paperless office as prophesized.
They also show why universities are not just places where you take courses and degrees such that they can be replaced by online universities but places where you partake in the liesure needed for learning and the community interactions needed for developing good social skils as well as shared 'dialogical' learning.
They also explain why startups and home-offices fail and why IT has lead to agglomeration and not small enterprise. They state that there is a great deal of 'tacit' or hidden learning in a workplace that is not possible in a home office.
Other chapters discuss other issues like nature of problem solving, nature of 'knowledge ecologies' etc.
While this book won't 'open your mind' if you are basically level-headed, it will certainly correct any one-sided opinions that get formed by listening more often to one-side of the debate repeated ad nauseam in media.
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Cell phones and mobile technologies are omnipresent in everyday life, yet the cultural implications of mobile phones have been neglected. This book aims to fill this gap, providing the first comprehensive, accessible, and international introduction to cell phone culture and theory. It offers a clear yet sophisticated overview of mobile telecommunications, putting the technology in historical and technical context. Cell Phone Culture is a fascinating biography of an important cultural object, that adopts an integrated, multiperspectival approach to the cultural and social shaping of technology. Goggin considers the mobile phone from the standpoint of its history, production, design, consumption, and representation, as well as its deep implication in contemporary media convergence - such as digital photography, mobile blogging, mobile Internet, and mobile television. Interdisciplinary in its conceptual framework, Cell Phone Culture draws on a wide range of national, regional, and internationalexamples, to carefully explore the new forms of consumption and use of communication and media technology that the phenomenon of mobiles represents. Cell Phone Culture also reflects upon the challenges and provocations of mobile phone technology, use, and consumption for doing cultural and media studies today.
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The Crabby Office Ladys humorous online column reaches more than 250,000 people a month, and more than 10,000 people view her videos each month. The real Crabby Office Lady, Annik Stahl, has helped Microsoft put a human face on the sometimes frustrating world of work. In this humorous but practical take on how to survive todays office environment, Microsofts very own Crabby Office Lady shows you how to make the most of Microsoft Office programs so that you can be more efficient, collaborate more effectively, and spend more time doing the things that really matter to you.
Customer Reviews:
Disappointed.......2007-03-20
I was very disappointed in the book. I thought it would be a compendium of Crabby Office Lady articles. Instead, it it no more than instructions on using various components of Microsoft Office. Was not worth the price.
The MS Crabby Office Lady - Kindergarden stuff.......2007-03-19
Far too basic for the money spent on buying this title.
VP view.......2006-11-04
I enjoyed the persona and some of the tips, but most of this is pretty basic stuff
Sassy; Smart; Spunky; and Informative!.......2006-10-04
This book is a must-have for anyone using the Microsoft Office Suite--or for anyone who just wants a good laugh. Buy one for yourself, and buy one for your friends. Excellent, helpful tips written in such a hilarious manner, I could not put it down. Absolutely not another dry, boring "how-to" computer book!
LW--Bellevue, WA
This book rocks!.......2006-10-02
An amazing book written in easy-to-read techspeak. Diagrams, anecdotes...it has it all.
A perfect desk companion for making your office life more productive than it has ever been!
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The Internet in Everyday Life brings together many pioneering studies that systematically investigate how being online fits into everyday lives. Until now, the Internet has been treated and discussed as detached from daily life, occupying some separate sphere of social endeavor. This collection of original articles from leading scholars in North America, Asia, and Europe moves discussion of the Internet closer to home, showing how the Internet does not exist out there but is instead an integral part of daily work and home life.Contributors show who is on the Internet and what they are doing there. They debate whether the Internet adds to or detracts from the well-being of individuals, communities, and societies. They demonstrate how the Internet affects friendship, social capital, social support, civic involvement, school, work, and shopping. They reveal the extent to which the Internet is supporting new forms of human relationships, and describe what gets dropped and strained when Internet hours are added to already full schedules.The book goes beyond speculation to provide solid findings. Articles are informed by results from surveys, interviews, and ethnographic data about behavior on and with the Internet. Taken as a whole, this considered body of evidence should raise the level of debate about the impact of the Internet and raises serious questions about the popular myth that Internet use increases social alienation.
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Use of Internet for Non-business and non-workplace Scenarios.......2004-12-24
The comment on editor (using the reviewer's sacred space) is not out of place. Amazon has a different logic to treat people. In the previous incarnation amazon.com had an option for author's to comment. Now, I presume, it is turned into Guide.
amazon.co.uk and amazon.ca have differences in this regard, and in the ultimate this strategy (of sorts) hurts the authors, reviewers, commentators, etc.
Internet in Everyday Life is a kind of book that I could lay my hands, on the very day it appeared in the market.
--- Comments forthcoming --- I will be back soon and give a full picture of the book, its structure, approach and value for the every day life.
Shouldn't the editor identify himself in a review?.......2003-02-22
I'm sure this is a good book but I'd like to see truth in advertising!
The real world of the Internet -- from the Co-Editor.......2003-01-19
[Note: For some reason, another "reviewer" from Troy NY mad the dispariging comment, "Shouldn't the editor identify himself in a review?" But, I did and continue to do so, in the title of this little statement. My "review" is really a guide + a Table of Contents) to what the book is about. So I don't understand this person's comment. BW]
The guide and TOC start here>
_The Internet in Everyday Life_ is about the second age of the Internet as it descends from the firmament and becomes embedded in everyday life. The first age of the Internet was a bright light shining above everyday concerns. In the euphoria, many analysts lost their perspective. The rapid contraction of the dot.com economy has brought down to earth the once-euphoric belief in the infinite possibility of Internet life.
It is not as if the Internet disappeared. Instead, the light that dazzled overhead has become embedded in everyday things. A reality check is now underway about where the Internet fits into the ways in which people behave offline as well as online. We are moving from a world of Internet wizards to a world of ordinary people routinely using the Internet as an embedded part of their lives. It has become clear that the Internet is a very important thing, but not a special thing. It is being used more -by more people, in more countries, in more ways.
This book is a harbinger of a new way of thinking about the Internet: not as a special system but as routinely incorporated into everyday life. The studies presented here begin the tasks of broadening our focus from the Internet to the social worlds in which it is embroiled.
The research in this book focuses on the relationship between the Internet and interpersonal relationships. It speaks to issues about the social consequences of adding the Internet to our daily lives. It explores how the Internet affects social and communal behaviors. The studies address key questions about the impact of the Internet on friendships, civic involvement, and time spent with others.
Who is online and who is coming online (and not coming)?
How much time do they spend online?
How does the Internet affect relationships within households, and with amily, friends, voluntary organizations, schoolmates, and workmates?
The research presented suggests that the Internet has accentuated a change towards a networked society: a turn toward living in networks rather than in groups. The personalization, portability, ubiquitous connectivity, and imminent wireless mobility of the Internet all facilitate networked individualism as the basis of community.
Table of Contents:
The Virtual Community in the Real World, by Howard Rheingold
The Internet and the Network Society, by Manuel Castells
Part I - Moving the Internet out of Cyberspace
The Internet in Everyday Life: An Introduction, by Caroline Haythornthwaite and Barry Wellman
Part II - The Place of the Internet in Everyday Life
1. Days and Nights on the Internet, by Philip E. N. Howard, Lee Rainie, and Steve Jones
2. The Global Villagers: Comparing Internet Users and Uses Around the World, by Wenhong Chen, Jeffrey Boase, and Barry Wellman
3. Syntopia: Access, Civic Involvement, and Social Interaction on the Net, James E. Katz and Ronald E. Rice
4. Digital Living: The Impact (or Otherwise) of the Internet on Everyday British Life, Ben Anderson and Karina Tracey
5. The Changing Digital Divide in Germany, Gert G. Wagner, Rainer Pischner, and John P. Haisken-DeNew
6. Doing Social Science Research Online, Alan Neustadtl, John P. Robinson, and Meyer Kestnbaum
Part III - Finding Time for the Internet
7. Internet Use, Interpersonal Relations, and Sociability: A Time Diary Study, by Norman H. Nie, D. Sunshine Hillygus, and Lutz Erbring
8. The Internet and Other Uses of Time, by John P. Robinson, Meyer Kestnbaum, Alan Neustadtl, and Anthony S. Alvarez
9. Everyday Communication Patters of Heavy and Light Email Users, Janell I. Copher, Alaina G. Kanfer, and Mary Bea Walker
Part IV - The Internet in the Community
10. Capitalizing on the Net: Social Contact, Civic Engagement, and Sense of Community, by Anabel Quan-Haase and Barry Wellman, with James C. Witte and Keith N. Hampton
11. The Impact of Community Computer Networks on Social Capital and Community Involvement in Blacksburg, Andrea L. Kavanaugh and Scott J. Patterson
12. The Not So Global Village of Netville, Keith N. Hampton and Barry Wellman
13. Email, Gender, and Personal Relationships, Bonka Boneva and Robert Kraut
14. Belonging in Geographic, Ethnic and Internet Spaces, Sorin Matei and Sandra J. Ball-Rokeach
Part V - The Internet at School, Work, and Home
15. Bringing the Internet Home: Adult Distance Learners and Their Internet, Home, and Work Worlds, by Caroline Haythornthwaite and Michelle M. Kazmer
16. Where Home is the Office: The New Form of Flexible Work, by Janet W. Salaff
17. Kerala Connections: Will the Internet Affect Science in Developing Areas? Theresa Davidson, R. Sooryamoorthy, and Wesley Shrum
18. Social Support for Japanese Mothers Online and Offline, by Kakuko Miyata
19. Experience and Trust in Online Shopping, by Robert J. Lunn and Michael W. Suman
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Release Date: 2000-07-11 |
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In the town of Sunnyvale, in the heart of Silicon Valley, every day brings sunshine and progress, and everything is supposed to work out okay. Not surprisingly, this thoughtful and deeply affecting memoir tells the story of a family that falls apart (or rather "off the Norman Rockwell easel") in the midst of this fantasy. When Mrs. Goodell decides to get a divorce, she blasts off from Planet Marriage and hitches her future to the embryonic Apple Computer company. The other family members, however, quickly unravel. Jeff, the oldest son, quits his Apple job for the casinos of Lake Tahoe, fully believing he is "leaving behind a bunch of nerdy machine heads who were destined to live small, narrow lives empty of romance or mystery." His father, a landscape architect and a family man devastated by the divorce, finds himself becoming an anachronism in the Silicon Valley chip-and-code culture. And the sensitive youngest son, Jerry, plunges into drugs, alcohol, and sexual experimentation.
While there are amusing anecdotes about what happens in the cubicles of the computer industry, Goodell focuses his clear eyes and likable style on the powerful relations of family members in crisis--on the corrosive power of competition between siblings, the disillusionment of seeing a parent fail, the despair of witnessing a loved one self-destruct, and the inevitable backlash that happens when we try to run away. Goodell himself is party to this universal irony for, despite trying to flee Silicon Valley culture, he's became one of its best-known chroniclers. And in the Valley, he finds the greatest metaphor for escape:
I feel like I'm looking down into the heart of a vast electronic hive, where the honey is time: faster chips, faster software, faster wires. It's not about efficiency--it is about cheating death. Dreaming of speed is the way engineers dream of immortality.
The men in Goodell's family are, in their own ways, at odds with this reigning faith. Goodell has given us a powerful and ultimately redemptive example of a family caught in the vortex of rapidly changing times and the tragedy wrought on those left behind. --Lesley Reed
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"Hi, it's Jeff." Silence. "Your grandson," I added.
"Oh. Yes. Jeff. How are you?"
I told him I'd like to stop by and introduce him to my wife.
"Great," he said, sounding genuinely surprised. "Why don't you come by and pet the robots?"
In Sunnyvale, California, in 1979, Jeff Goodell's family lived quietly on Meadowlark Lane, unaware that their town was soon to become ground zero in the digital revolution. Then one day his mother announced that she and his father were divorcing after twenty years of marriage. Big deal, thought Jeff. "Everybody we knew was splitting up-it was the romantic equivalent of the pet-rock craze." Over the next decade, Silicon Valley boomed, and the Goodell family unraveled.
Sunnyvale: The Rise and Fall of a Silicon Valley Family is the story of a fragile, all-too-ordinary family caught at the epicenter of one of the great economic, cultural, and technological explosions in recent history.
After the divorce, Goodell's mother went to work for a little company called Apple Computer and began her ascent into the new world; his father, a landscape contractor who valued plants and trees over bits and bytes, found himself alone and falling farther and farther behind. For the Goodell children, the aftershocks brought pain and confusion: Jeff ran off to Lake Tahoe and the fast track to nowhere; his younger brother, Jerry, began a nightmarish descent into drugs, alcohol, and sexual experimentation; and eleven-year-old Jill bounced between two houses, struggling to make sense of her shattered world.
Watching it all was grandfather Leonard Goodell, a Westinghouse ur-geek who-even in his late seventies-still had enough mental horsepower to work as a lead engineer in a robotics factory. But as Leonard watched his son's family fall apart, he realized his worldly success had not come without a human cost, and near the end of his life he began his own quest for forgiveness and redemption.
Sunnyvale is a portrait of a way of life that is no more, in a place where progress runs wild. It is about individuals struggling to make lives for themselves in a brutally Darwinian world. Above all, it is about what we owe to the people we love. A unique and compelling family story, it is also a resonant document of our age.
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In Sunnyvale, California, in 1979, Jeff Goodell's family lived quietly on Meadowlark Lane, unaware that their town was soon to become ground zero in the digital revolution. Then one day his mother announced that she and his father were divorcing after twenty years of marriage. Big deal, thought Jeff. "Everybody we knew was splitting up -- it was the romantic equivalent of the pet-rock craze." Over the next decade, Silicon Valley boomed, and the Goodell family unraveled. Sunnyvale: The Rise and Fall of a Silicon Valley Family is the story of a fragile, all-too-ordinary family caught at the epicenter of one of the great economic, cultural, and technological explosions in recent history.
After the divorce, Goodell's mother went to work for a little company called Apple Computer and began her ascent into the new world; his father, a landscape contractor who valued plants and trees over bits and bytes, found himself alone and falling farther and farther behind. For the Goodell children, the aftershocks brought pain and confusion: Jeff ran off to Lake Tahoe and the fast track to nowhere; his younger brother, Jerry, began a nightmarish descent into drugs, alcohol, and sexual experimentation; and eleven-year-old Jill bounced between two houses, struggling to make sense of her shattered world.
Watching it all was grandfather Leonard Goodell, a Westinghouse ur-geek who -- even in his late seventies -- still had enough mental horsepower to work as a lead engineer in a robotics factory. But as Leonard watched his son's family fall apart, he realized his worldly success had not come without a human cost, and near the end of his life he began his own quest for forgiveness and redemption.
Sunnyvale is a portrait of a way of life that is no more, in a place where progress runs wild. It is about individuals struggling to make lives for themselves in a brutally Darwinian world. Above all, it is about what we owe to the people we love. A unique and compelling family story, it is also a resonant document of our age.
"A touching family portrait as well as an acute look at the social implications of the information age.... Anyone who has ever had a family or a computer can relate to Goodell's story."
KIRKUS REVIEW
"This is a riveting memoir, hard to stop reading and hard to forget. It is slyly presented as being about life in the high-tech economy, but it's really about Life."
JAMES FALLOWS
Front-of-jacket photograph courtesy of the author
Customer Reviews:
modern American family tragedy.......2006-08-14
It sounds completely trite, but I could not put this book down. The true story of the author's family, this is a story that most middle-class Americans can relate to. It's a story of divorce, coming of age, confusion, madness and family bonds. It's heartbreakingly honest and a cautionary tale for how things can spiral out of control.
A pleasant surprise........2002-09-10
I didn't know anything about this story or author when I picked up this book; I just wanted to read it because I grew up in Sunnyvale (and still live in the Bay Area). I found that the story moves along quietly and rather gently while describing serious subject matter: a family is broken apart by divorce. Meanwhile, the vast promise of the Silicon Valley is the background. It was a very honest portrayal of life and troubles in this area, very authentic to me: my father was an immigrant, drawn to California and the Bay Area as the promised land, and he was very much like the men in this book, wanting success, to make something of himself, expecting the best from his children, pressuring them to succeed because how can you possibly fail when you live in an Eichler home in a place called Sunnyvale in the place that created the technological revolution? Like the author himself, I was not the least bit drawn to the computer industry, wanting instead to be artistic and creative. Therefore, I never belonging here. I've been trying to get out of this area for years; in the book, the lead character/author moves to New York. I never realized that those of us who grew up in Sunnyvale could have similar life experiences despite differences in ethnicity, family background, etc. Your hometown influences you and your family and every part of your life. How nice to read a book that illustrates this so effectively.
Vivid portrayal of the valley.......2002-03-12
I felt so connected to "the valley" while reading this book. I grew up in Sunnyvale and surrounding towns and knew exactly where the author was when he described the area. What for me seemed like "Anywhere, USA" became unique in my eyes for the first time. It has been an experience watching the area explode with change thoughout my life.
Goodell does a great job of describing the pain in ordinary lives, and I could feel his honest emotion shine through without any gushiness or corniness: the experience of being human in our modern times. Thanks, Mr. Goodell for a great, meaningful book!
Shakespearean tale set in Silicon Valley.......2001-08-30
According to the dust jacket, "Sunnyvale: The Rise and Fall of Silicon Valley Family," by Jeff Goodell, is "a portrait of one family's fate in a brutally Darwinian world" and that doesn't even begin to describe this incredible book.
Think your family's got problems? Think you're stuck in the middle, enmeshed between feuding siblings and parents? You've got nothing on the Goodell clan. Set against a backdrop of the growth of the Silicon Valley, from sleepy little slow-paced orchard-filled bedroom community to the congested frenetic center of the new economy, Sunnyvale reads as a Shakespearean tale of a deposed King trying vainly to keep his dynasty together. And it's all true.
In this stunning memoir Goodell contrasts his father's downfall in the old world of landscape design and construction to his mother's rise in the new world of bits and bytes, and the disastrous effects it had on their children. Throw in a couple of divorces, plenty of drugs, enough alcohol to fill the San Francisco bay, cancer, AIDS, and the prodigal return of a robot building grandfather, and you've got one hell of a good book.
This is truly "can't put down" reading at its best. Jeff Goodell is also the author of The Cyberthief and the Samurai. I give a strong recommendation for Sunnyvale: The Rise and Fall of Silicon Valley Family.
Great story of a nuclear family.......2001-07-10
I grew up in the bay area and really enjoyed the story of how the events and mindsets of the late 1970's changed the author and his families world. Written in a way that brings divorce and its effects on a family to life I found myself rooting for all the characters and identifying with about everyone of them!
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Today's leading visionaries discuss the future of information technology
How will E-commerce and E-consumers interact in 2020? What will the relationship between man and machine, man and information, and information and machine mean for future generations? The Invisible Future assembles an elite group of 17 business and academic leaders to answer these and many other fascinating, strategically critical questions. The original essays they provide are as provocative and as powerful as the topics they discuss.
This wide-ranging collection offers tactical insights into the future of technology and computing. Essential reading for executives engaged in strategic planning, and anyone interested in the future of technology, The Invisible Future includes never-before published essays by:
- Rodney Brooks
- John Seely Brown
- Rita Colwell
- Michael Dertouzos
- Alan Kay
- Ray Kurzweil
- Bob Metcalfe
- And more
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How will E-commerce and E-consumers interact in 2020? What will the relationship between man and machine, man and information, and information and machine mean for future generations? The Invisible Future assembles an elite group of 17 business and academic leaders to answer these and many other fascinating, strategically critical questions.
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I received Wedding Workout!!!.......2004-01-23
I ordered this book a week ago. But I received a book tiltiled
"The Wedding Workout". Do you think if the sender is responsible
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Thought-provoking perspectives from IT cognoscenti.......2003-03-27
This is a collection of eighteen essays that came out of a 2001 ACM conference. The subjects centered around the future of computers in our lives, but some discussed robotics, bioscience, astrophysics and oceanography. Several focused on ubiquity or "ambient intelligence" as one author called it. Written by some leading minds in science, information technology and others, the essays discuss future challenges and possible scenarios in their respective fields.
While a few of the papers leaned to the pretentious or the superficial in their commentary, overall I found the essays to be informative and well written. The learned cast of writers included the likes of Michael Dertouzos (Director of the MIT Computer Science Lab), Alan Kay (a founder of Xerox PARC), Bob Metcalfe (co-inventor of Ethernet, WYSIWYG interface), John Seely Brown (Chief Scientist of Xerox), Rodney Brooks (Director of the AI Lab at MIT), Vint Cerf and Ray Kurzweil,. Most papers had a good list of references for further reading.
Highly Recommended!.......2002-03-23
The gates to the human genome have fallen, nano-technology is redefining life itself, and Moore's law continues to work its magic. But is there a dark side to the technology juggernaut? The answer provided by the contributors to this cutting-edge tome is a definite, "maybe." If technology cannot be made more human-centric - designed to respond to human wants and needs - its promise could indeed be thwarted. We from getAbstract strongly recommend this book to anyone whose work helps to hone technology's cutting edge, and for those who just hope to stay on the safe side of the blade.
Information Age crystal ball.......2001-11-22
If you are looking for some sound clues about the future being shaped by information technology, this book is for you. It's informative and insightful about what's coming down the information highway. It's also a good read, even for those of us who are not technocrats, but want to know how technology will affect our lives in the coming years.
A "Must-Read" for Futurists.......2001-11-08
As co-editor of NewsScan Daily, the Internet publication focused on the social aspects of information technology, I consider "The Invisible Future" a "Must-Read" because it offers so many thought-provoking essays for people interested in computers, in the future, or the future of computers. Peter Denning has brilliantly edited the book to focus on what 's really important about computers -- both now and in the future, both as they are and as they really ought to be (and will be).
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Millions and millions of people from all over the world have discovered the new virtual universe of Second Life. There you can meet new people, make friends, conduct business, build empires, whatever your imagination can conjure. This easy to use Beginner's Guide takes you step-by-step through the process of going from embarrassingly unprepared "Newbie" to a seasoned resident in no time. Learn how to design an Avatar for your new appearance. You can look like anyone or anything you desire. Buy land, build a house, a fortress, or even an entire city. Buy and island. Create new products and services and sell them to other residents for Linden Dollars, which can be converted to real US dollars. This book shows you how, with step by step exercises, examples, loads of illustrations, everything you need to get started and having fun.
Customer Reviews:
Textbook.......2007-09-01
Second Life is a place where you can acgtually learn.
There are many real Universities who provide classroom hours,
lectures, conferences and simposiums.
It is a place where you can learn how to run business,
how to construct, design, and build super architectural structures.
It is a fun place also, to go skydiving or swim in the ocean,
and it is certainly a great place to make friends.
In order to be able to be an active happy participant of the Second Life world, you need to learn how to quit bumbing your avatar into corners, not step on each other's feet, not to fall into ocean while flying, and not to accidentally dress into a LAMPSHADE instead of the new clothes you've just gotten...
A Beginner's Guide to Second Life is a textbook for newbies, an absolute necessity, if you want to improve sooner and lear the basics of how to BE in this amazing environment full of wonders and great opportunities!
a solid, good beginner's guide.......2007-08-26
This book is not as pretty as some of the other books on Second Life, but it has plenty of useful information for the beginner. It's occasionally a little snarky about newbies, but that's my only complaint. I would have given it 5 stars if the illustrations had been better. I found it well worth the money and still refer to it while my 2 other books on SL are gathering dust.
Pleasantly Surprised.......2007-06-16
I have been looking for awhile for a good instructional book on Second Life. Since I needed it to be a text book for an introductory college course on Second Life, I ended off looking at everything I could find in the market.
This is the ONLY book I found that actually gives you a full range of instruction. The official guide is pretty looking but doesn't provide instruction, Tourist guide is about locations and history, play money book is too esoteric, etc. etc.
I had to write this review....I was so blown away with the overwhelmingly positive feedback I got from my students about A Beginner's Guide to Second Life for course material. That's the first I ever got with a textbook.
Great Teaching Textbook.......2007-06-02
I've been looking for a fast way to understand Second Life. The Official "Help" links on the game can be confusing and orientation is frustratingly tedious. I found A Beginner's Guide to Second Lifeto be an excellent "hands-on" tutorial for quickly becoming adept at Second Life. Since I teach at a community college, I have also used it as a textbook for introducing my class to the subject. I hope this team will write a follow-up.
Just the Help I Needed.......2007-04-11
When I first tried Second Life, I was a little overwhelmed by the complexity of it. Sure, there are help files and forums and such, but I really needed a step by step guide to help keep me from running around naked with a box on my head. This book was just what I was looking for. I highly recommend it. I think I'm going to buy an island today.
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