From sj-approval Tue Aug 1 15:32:54 1995 Return-Path: Received: by world.std.com (5.65c/Spike-2.0) id AA12603; Tue, 1 Aug 1995 19:32:57 -0400 Received: from mail02.mail.aol.com by world.std.com (5.65c/Spike-2.0) id AA12580; Tue, 1 Aug 1995 19:32:55 -0400 Received: by mail02.mail.aol.com (1.37.109.16/16.2) id AA283019974; Tue, 1 Aug 1995 19:32:54 -0400 Date: Tue, 1 Aug 1995 19:32:54 -0400 From: RUBENEWS@aol.com Message-Id: <950801193247_45737377@aol.com> To: sj@world.std.com Subject: NET NOTES 7 Sender: sj-approval@world.std.com Precedence: bulk Reply-To: sj FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE NET NOTES 7 COLUMN (This column of source material is written specifically for journalist colleagues around the globe. This information is not for publication. Please share with as many journalist netters as possible.) By Ruben Sosa Villegas c1995 More technology books to consider: E-MAIL ADDRESSES OF THE RICH & FAMOUS by SETH GODIN (c1995, Addison Wesley, 130 pages, $6.95 paperback, ISBN: 0-201-40893-7) AUTHOR: Seth Godin is the creater of the "The Smiley Dictionary" and "The Internet White Pages." NOTES: Only one printing is planned for this inexpensive book of e-mail addresses of everyone from Tom Clancy, Ed Asner, Paula Poundstone, Roger Ebert to Bill Gates, Anne McCaffrey, Bily Idol, Ross Perot. This book also includes hundres of reporters, editors, politicians, programmers, actors, producers, directors, CIA ex-spies, millionaires, entrepreneurs, and Internet experts. More than 1,000 contacts including Santa Claus. WALKING THE WORLD WIDE WEB: Your Personal Guide to the Best of the Web SHANNON R. TURLINGTON (c1995, Ventana Press, 322 pages, $29.95 paperback, ISBN: 1-56604-208-9) AUTHOR: Shannon R. Turlington is a writer and freelance editor. She was the links editor for the first trade book to be published on the World Wide Web, "Bless This Food" by Adrian Butash; as links editor, she researched and incorporated World Wide Web resources into the text of the book. She completely edited and produced the the World Wide Web version of "Bernice Chesler's Bed & Breakfast" in New England, Massachusetts version, including HTML coding and formatting and editing external links. She currently edits and publishes "Cyberkind," a World Wide Web magazine of Net-related fiction, nonfiction, poetry and art, and maintains a fiction and publishing resource archive on the web. She lives in Carrboro, N.C. with her husband, two dogs and two ferrets. Reach Turlington at shannon@vmedia.com or on the web: http://www.vmedia.com/shannon/shannon.html NOTES: Let Shannon Turlington give you a personal tour of each of more than 300 memorable sites, featuring the innovative, the enchanting and the informative. With an in-depth description of what's special about each stop along the way, Turling show you how to see the world from the Moscow Kremlin Online Excursion to the Gateway to Antartica; visit fascinating people and places from the Vatacin exhibit to the virtual frog dissection kit; taking care of business from quote com to the microbrew-of-the-month club. She includes chapters on "Doing Business," "Getting A Job," "Financial Help," "Real Estate," "Advertising Online," "High-Tech Outlet" and "Dining Out." The book includes a CD-ROM. THE CD-ROM DIRECTORY '95 (c1995, Pemberton Press Inc., $145 paperback, $102 CD-ROM, ISBN: 1-879889-46-0) Pemberton Press Inc., 462 Danbury Road, Wilton, CT 06897-2126; phone (800) 248-8466 or (203) 761-1466; Fax: 203-761-1444. E-mail: online@well.sf.ca.us NOTES: (from press release) The 13th edition of CD-ROM DIrectory provides the latest and most accurate information on CD-ROM & multimedia CD titles available worldwide, as well as detailed profiles of companies engaged in all aspects of development, production, publishing and distribution. It includes full details on 8,000 CD-ROM & multimedia CD titles available across the globe; 6,000 company profiles in the CD-ROM and multimedia industry worldwide. The CD-ROM (DOS/Windows/Mac) uses a search engine to locate titles, subject, price, computer platform, products, country, etc. Includes listings of CD-ROMs published by universities that include research information by companies, governments, etc. THE MULTIMEDIA YEARBOOK 1995: The Definitive Guide to the Worldwide Multimedia Marketplace (c1995, Eight Bit Books, $135 paperback with CD-ROM, ISBN: not available) Eight Bit Books, Fulfillment Dept., 462 Danbury Road, Wilton, CT 06897-2126 Phone (800) 248-8466; Fax: 203-761-1444. NOTES: (from press release): The most comprehensive source of commentary and information available, it includes the industry's most extensive directory of companies, products and services. Includes in-depth interviews with the leaders in multimedia, over 2,000 company profiles, and 1,000 product listings. Includes information on advertising, models for multimedia, consumer market trade, developer challenges, digital video trends, distribution models for multimedia, economics of CD publishing, European Commission Initiatives, Interactive TV, Hollywood and multimedia, portable information products and standards and video CD. NET NOTES 7 -30- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ----------------