Date: Tue, 28 Mar 1995 14:08:00 EST
From: "Rob Slade, Social Convener to the Net" <roberts@mukluk.decus.ca>
Subject: "Internet Roadside Attractions" by Branwyn et al.

BKINTRAT.RVW   950307
 
"Internet Roadside Attractions", Branwyn et al, 1995, 1-56604-193-7, U$29.95
%A   Gareth Branwyn gareth@vmedia.com
%A   Sean Carton
%A   Luke Duncan
%A   Tom Lichty majortom@aol.com
%A   Donald Rose drose@pro-palmtree.socal.com
%A   Shannon Turlington shannon@vmedia.com
%A   Jan Weingarten
%C   PO Box 2468, Chapel Hill, NC   27515
%D   1995
%G   1-56604-193-7
%I   Ventana Press
%O   U$29.95 800-743-5369 919-942-0220 fax: 919-942-1140 dludlow@vmedia.com
%P   320
%T   "Internet Roadside Attractions"
 
This is, as the name suggests, a miscellany of information, resources and
trivia accessible over the Internet.  The number of entries is less than the
size of the book would suggest, since many items appear more than once, in
different topic sections.  The material is thus very far from being complete,
while certain areas contain items that are only very loosely related.  (Travel,
for example, has entries on history and government resources.)  The "multiple
listings" are a good idea, since neither the table of contents nor the index
may help, at times.  (The Internet Coffee Machine, for example, is not listed
in the index, nor does it appear under "Food and Drink", although an image from
it does.  The actual entry is listed under "Cyberculture".)
 
All are "reviewed" at some point in the book.  These comments are generally
only a short paragraph, but are worth looking at.  The multiple listings point
to the one review.  (Project Gutenberg actually gets two separate reviews:  the
later one does point to the earlier.)
 
The entries are mostly standardized on URLs (Universal Resource Locators). 
There is an explanation at the beginning of the book, and an explanatory
"Unraveling the URL" sidebar which recurs throughout the book.  The emphasis is
on World Wide Web and Gopher entries:  others are not given unless there is no
WWW or Gopher pointer.
 
copyright Robert M. Slade, 1995   BKINTRDAT.RVW   950307

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