James Bryce Clark (clark@sposil.com)
Tue, 7 Sep 1999 12:05:00 -0700
>From: Tim Finin <finin@cs.umbc.edu>
>Date: Monday, September 06, 1999 9:43 PM
>Subject: anyone out there?
>
>Ok. I know there are actually several hundred people out there. But
>the list has been quiet * * *
I imagine much of the U S contingent is slogging through the same
post Labor Day weekend head- and desk- clearing we're suffering here.
In the meantime:
>from your exTechNews listserv:
>
>IGEC is maintaining a page of books we think are worth reading on
>various ecommerce related topics. Some of these we're using for our
>own course and some for our research. Others we've found useful in
>mastering the technology needed to implement ecommerce projects or in
>understanding how internet ecommerce is changing the way we do
>business. Ok, some we've written and are trying to market. Please
>let s know about any titles you recommend. http://igec.umbc.edu/books/.
Well, an interesting list. I am an e-commerce lawyer, so to throw in my two
cents for legal issues, I highly recommend Law of Electronic Commerce, Third
Edition; B. Wright & J. Winn. I believe their current catalog listing at
Aspen is http://www.aspenpub.com/pg69401.html#915. No, that's not Amazon,
no, I'm not getting a cut, and no, I didn't contribute to it, although I do
know and respect the authors. More importantly, though, there is a *great
deal* of recently-published drivel out there in the Legal Issues of the
Internet space. Most of it seems to have been collected and edited in a
weekend. This one, however, is the real dope, and has had the benefit of
rigorous work both pre- and post- Internet boom.
On the IGEC list, I was particularly happy to see Philip and Alex's Guide to
Web Publishing, by Greenspun. What an engaging, as well as forward-looking,
book! I do not agree with the editorial suggestion that one needs to know
C, Perl, etc to understand it -- I ran across this material before acquiring
any of those skills, and found it comprehensible. If anything it spurred me
to learn more about databases and programming. Readers might find it useful
to preview the material, which is at http://photo.net/wtr/thebook/, along
with pointers to a number of practical interactive examples.
>
>Ok, some we've written * * *
Which ones are from the IGEC family tree? I couldn't tell from a cursory
glance, and would like to pick them up if they're on point.
Jamie Clark
Spolin & Silverman LLP Santa Monica
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