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Book Excerpts - Volume 1:


The Future and Its Enemies
A Book Excerpt by Virginia Postrel
(Issue 1 - February 21, 2000)

Database Nation
A Book Excerpt by Simson Garfinkel
(Issue 2 - February 28, 2000)

The Cluetrain Manifesto
A Book Excerpt by Frederick Levine
Chris Locke
David Searls
David Weinberger
(Issue 3 - March 6, 2000)

The Social Life of Information
A Book Excerpt by John Seely Brown
and Paul Duguid
(Issue 5 - March 21-27, 2000)

Common Knowledge: How Companies Thrive . .
By Nancy M. Dixon
(Issue 7 - April 4-10, 2000)

GUI Bloopers: Don'ts and Do's . . . .
A Book Excerpt by Jeff Johnson
(Issue 11 - May 2-8, 2000)

Literacy in the Cyber Age
By R.W. Burniske
"Composing Ourselves Online: Broadening the Definition of Computer Literacy," adapted from the soon-to-be-published book.
(Issue 12 - May 9-15, 2000)

Digital Capital: Harnessing the Power
of Business Webs

Chapter seven, "People: the Human Capital in the Business Web," from the new book by Don Tapscott,
David Ticoll, and Alex Lowy.
(Issue 12 - May 9-15, 2000)

The Humane Interface
From the new book on interface design by Jef Raskin
(Issue 14 - May 23-29, 2000)

Theoretical Foundations of Multimedia
By Robert S. Tannenbaum
Some Ethical Concerns Regarding Multimedia
(Issue 23 - August 1-7, 2000)

Working Knowledge:
How Organizations Manage What They Know

By Thomas H. Davenport
(Issue 24 - August 8-14, 2000)

In Good Company: How Social Capital Makes Organizations Work
By Donald J. Cohen
Elements like trust, mutual understanding, and commitment
provide stability and connection that sustain organizations
in a volatile market.
(Issue 42 - January 2-8, 2001)

The Civilization of Illiteracy
By Mihai Nadin
A glimpse of what lies beyond computers and symbolic processing
(Issue 45 - January 23-29, 2001)



Unchained Value: The New Logic of Digital Business
By Mary J. Cronin
The Net makes relationships more complex, multidimensional
and volatile at the same time that it offers unprecedented
opportunity.
(Issue 46 - January 30 - February 5, 2001)



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