Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 303.4834
EAN: 9780786708468
ISBN: 0786708468
Label: Carroll & Graf Publishers
Manufacturer: Carroll & Graf Publishers
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 208
Publication Date: 2001-04
Publisher: Carroll & Graf Publishers
Sales Rank: 1030249
Studio: Carroll & Graf Publishers
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Rating:  - Reading the book made me want to log in
It's a quick read, but it tells a long story. The Well is one of the earliest and longest-running online communities, and I've been a member for more than 10 years. Hafner's writing reads like much of the writing in the Well: personal, insightful, and very human. She looks at the evolution of the business, as well as some of the highlights -- and low points -- of the relationships among members. Even the darkest of days and most difficult situations is addressed with grace and empathy. Of interest ... Read More
Rating:  - Familiar tales for any veteran of online forums
I liked this book. I've been there on well.com now and then, and it's true that the site was influential in forming the Electronic Frontier Foundation and other key initiatives in protecting the freedoms of the 'net. But the book is cool because even though Hafner says the Well is historic and unique, it's more like a very strong example of something we've all seen.
There's a soap opera pleasure to the conflicts in the book.
The Well's traditional attention to "process" can ... Read More
Rating: - A Little Book about Big Things (like Life and Death)
I finished the book with a sad, sober feeling. Yes, the word "death" absolutely belongs in the title. The book is about life and death. It's one of those little books that appears to be about something concrete and specific, and is in fact evocative of much deeper issues. I was reminded of what I experienced as the sometimes toxic atmosphere on The Well by the posts in the book, and by the accounts of some of the principal players. As well as the beatific spirits who made the whole thing run behind the ... Read More
Rating: - my community - not entirely virtual; not especially virtuous
[Full disclosure: I am a member of the Well and have been for almost seven years as of the publication of this book.]
It's always been difficult for me to describe the Well to my non-Well friends, because there are so few virtual places that even approximate it, and they're even smaller, and practically no one knows what they're like either. "Computer conferencing" is what I say to my friends in business. "On-line community" is what I say to the people I think Might Get It. I also call it "the ... Read More
Rating: - A remarkable book
This is a terrific book. I appreciate that Katie Hafner understands her strength to be narrative. Limiting the focus of her narrative to the lives of a few of the core founders and early pioneers of the Well allows her to reach the sort of depth I recall experiencing there when I was a "Well being" for a time in the late eighties. I mostly hung out in the Parenting conference, because I was the father of teenage children and our family seemed to reel from one crisis to another during those years. The support ... Read More
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