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Table of Contents for this page (scroll or click)
The Internet
- Can we help you build an Internet business?
- Internet-on-a-Disk (newsletter of
electronic texts and Internet trends; every issue, starting Feb.
1994)
- Business on the World Wide Web
(complete, edited transcripts of weekly chat session hosted by
Richard Seltzer -- "where word of keystroke begins,"
starting June 1996)
- PLEASE COPY THIS DISK (catalog
of electronic texts available on diskette)
- Internet speeches (slides and
scripts of speeches delivered by Richard Seltzer)
- Internet books by Richard Seltzer
- Internet business trends
- Web-based automatic translation
- Online auctions
- Online shopping
- Weekly articles about online shopping, plus full text of the
book Online Shopping the Lazy Way at CompareItAll
- On-Line Shopping the Lazy Way
sample chapter of the book published by Macmillan
- Online Shopping Directory
- Part 1: General
- Part 2: Categories -- cars, books, music, videos, real estate
- Part 3: Categories -- money, groceries, computers and software, travel
- Part 4: (under construction)
Categories -- Health, gifts, collectibles, live entertainment,
toys, clothing, education, furniture
- Online shopping tutorials at Learnlots.com
("Online Shopping," "Best Web Stores")
- Internet search
- Internet marketing
- Community and collaboration
- Distance education
- Web page/site design
- Electronic books and Internet resources for readers and
writers
- DEC/Digital
- Resources for Doing Business on the Internet
- Recommended Internet books
- Review of Weaving the Web by Tim
Berners-Lee
- Review of The Cluetrain Manifesto
by Rick Levine, Christopher Locke, Doc Searls, and David Weinberger
- Review of The Cathedral and the Bazaar
by Eric Raymond
- Online Shopping Directory
- Part 1: General
- Part 2: Categories -- cars, books, music, videos, real estate
- Part 3: Categories -- money, groceries, computers and software, travel
- Part 4: (under construction)
Categories -- Health, gifts, collectibles, live entertainment,
toys, clothing, education, furniture
- Online Media Contact List (new and
under construction)
- Links to a hundreds of other Web sites. (this
is being updated now)
- Resources for doing business on the Internet (this
is being updated now)
- Real Results: directory of successful Web sites
(this was active 1995-96, and is now of historical interest)
- Other Internet articles by Richard Seltzer
- From Internet-on-a-Disk
- Internet Advice for Newcomers: Message
to my old high school (Holderness School, Plymouth, NH) (en francais)
- Training, Not Censorship The Road
to Eden is Closed. Need for Cyber-Street-Smarts -- with responses
from Alfred Thompson and Bob Clancy
- The Joy of Being Found: Want to Connect
with Old Friends, Customers, Employer? Try using "Flypaper"
- Suggestion -- No Frills Web Pages for Community Service Organizations
- The Internet Tug of War
- All that Glitters -- If I had Bandwidth Enough and Time
- Just Enough Quality
- Up-Dating the Circles Model -- Value-Added Internet Services
- The AltaVista Revolution
- Video and the Internet
- Will "The News" Go Away?
- The Evolution of Technology and the Internet
- 'Hit-Vitations': What's Going On? And How Do You Play This Game?
- The Internet -- a New Dimension(remarks
when accepting the Internet Marketing Award at Internet World,
June 1994, plus script of the award-winning video "A Glimpse
of the Future")
- The Internet and the Human Spirit
- The Associative Power -- This Ain't Kansas, Mr. Broadcaster
- Commerce, Democracy, and the Internet
- We Don't Need Cities Anymore Reflections
on the Meaning of Commerce on the Internet
- Suggested Tactics for Building an Electronic Library
- An Author's View of Electronic Rights and the Public Domain
- The Public Domain and the World Wide Web -- Keep the Frontier Open
- Articles that appeared in Internet World
Magazine
- Picture Power:
The Web can serve as a family album and hall of fame, Internet
World Magazine, Oct. 1995.
- Personal Touch:
by hosting chat forums, Web publishers can build communities --
and their businesses, Internet World Magazine, Nov. 1995.
- Heads Up:
After you create your Web site, you need to let everyone know
it's there, Internet World Magazine, , April 1996.
- Priming the Pump:
The potential for Web-based discussion for distance learning is
great, but will people catch on?, Internet World Magazine
(on-line edition), September 1996.
- Articles by Richard Seltzer have also appeared in the August
1997 issue of Information Technology and Disabilities, in
the November 1995 issue of Library Hi Tech, in TechRepublic
(search for "Engineering content for engineers: the ActiveAnswers
solution," "Build pilots, not virtual mausoleums"),
and in the Cobb newsletter Internet Search Advantage
- Cyber-Movie Reviews These reviews were
published in Media Wave magazine. For further info, contact
the editor, John Shinnick.
- Blindness and Disability
Non-Internet works by Richard Seltzer
This area has several related purposes: to share book recommendations
and reviews with avid readers, to serve as a showcase for writers
who are looking for readers, and to point people to Web sites
devoted to writers and electronic books authors.
Selected Educational Resources
Poetry in Motion Productions
provides screenplay analysis, film pre-production and production
services, advice and links for the independent filmmaker and screenwriter.
Behind Locked Windows, the first three
chapters of a new novel by Michael Seltzer. Let us know your reactions.
If there's demand, we'll post the rest of the novel here.
Article from the U. of Maryland Alumni Magazine about the
Seltzer family, "The Golden Years: memories in times of love and war"
Acting/Modeling
House of Este --
Poems by Helen Estes Seltzer
Jimmy Fortune's Way, a short story by Helen Estes Seltzer
Can we help you build an Internet business? Richard Seltzer
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