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Manual of web metaphores.(The Internet: The Missing Manual)(Book review)
Byline: Mark chillingworth
Manual of web metaphors
' book review
Although many manuals seem to have been written by non-English speakers, all new technology comes with a manual that offers some guidance to the user. Apart, that is, from probably the most significant piece of technology to arrive on our desks since the PC first appeared there: the internet.
US technology publisher O'Reilly has attempted to plug the gap with this title, The Internet: The Missing Manual. The question is, does it help or hinder?
Guides to the internet are becoming as common as website pages in a search result list, but with O'Reilly behind this particular title, IWR decided to take a closer look. O'Reilly is at the forefront of technology publishing and has a knack of explaining things clearly. Could this book live up to its title?
A flippant start uses the metaphor of the web being akin to a second-hand bookshop: the information that you're looking for is in a title somewhere in there, although finding it among the sagging, laden shelves is easier said than done. The internet, according to authors and New York Times reporters David Pogue and JD Biersdorfer, is just the same, although in a virtual sense.
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