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Netslaves : true tales of working the web / Bill Lessard, Steve Baldwin.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York : McGraw-Hill, [2000]Copyright date: ©2000Description: 246 pages ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0071352430
  • 9780071352437
  • 0071364803
  • 9780071364805
Other title:
  • Net slaves [Spine title]
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 303.4834 23
LOC classification:
  • HE7581 .L47 2000
  • HM851 .L375 2000
Contents:
The Purpose Behind This Book -- Are You a NetSlave? Take the Quiz! -- Virus Scan: A User's Guide to the New Media Caste System -- Garbagemen: The Y2K Bug Is Eating My Pizza! -- Who Are They? -- General Characteristics -- The Story of Matt -- Cops and Streetwalkers: Is That a Cellular Modem in Your Pocket or Are You Just Happy to See Me? -- Who Are They? -- General Characteristics -- The Story of Kilmartin -- Social Workers: Click Here for a Clean, Well-Lighted Place -- Who Are They? -- General Characteristics -- The Story of Cindy -- Cab Drivers: Another Day, Another Startup -- Who Are They? -- General Characteristics -- The Story of Jane -- Cowboys and Card Sharks: Turnkey Solutions Traced in Blood -- Who Are They? -- General Characteristics -- The Story of Zorn -- Fry Cooks: Confessions of Real-Life "Dilberts" -- Who Are They? -- General Characteristics -- The Story of Boyd -- Gold Diggers and Gigolos: Sex, Lies, and Hypertext -- Who Are They? -- General Characteristics -- The Story of Kellner -- Priests and Madmen: Infinity in a Grain of Sand -- Who Are They? -- General Characteristics -- The Story of Barstow -- Robots: Kill, Crush, Deploy! -- Who/What Are They? -- General Characteristics -- The Story of Hussein -- Robber Barons: Who Needs Dynamite When We've Got IPOs? -- Who (We Think) They Are -- General Characteristics -- The Story of Welch -- Mole People: Living Large in the Net's Hoovervilles -- (Bug Report: Virus Scan Has Detected Mole People on Your Hard Drive -- Who/What Are They? -- General Characteristics -- The Story of Outis -- Afterword: Not Ready for Beta.
Summary: "True stories from the dark corners of the Internet, where platoons of perma-temp workers roam Ronin-like from job to job, anonymously holding the economy together. Offers eyewitness accounts of grueling hours, gross mismanagement, and chronic backstabbing in an industry with no real rules". -- Jacket.
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The Purpose Behind This Book -- Are You a NetSlave? Take the Quiz! -- Virus Scan: A User's Guide to the New Media Caste System -- Garbagemen: The Y2K Bug Is Eating My Pizza! -- Who Are They? -- General Characteristics -- The Story of Matt -- Cops and Streetwalkers: Is That a Cellular Modem in Your Pocket or Are You Just Happy to See Me? -- Who Are They? -- General Characteristics -- The Story of Kilmartin -- Social Workers: Click Here for a Clean, Well-Lighted Place -- Who Are They? -- General Characteristics -- The Story of Cindy -- Cab Drivers: Another Day, Another Startup -- Who Are They? -- General Characteristics -- The Story of Jane -- Cowboys and Card Sharks: Turnkey Solutions Traced in Blood -- Who Are They? -- General Characteristics -- The Story of Zorn -- Fry Cooks: Confessions of Real-Life "Dilberts" -- Who Are They? -- General Characteristics -- The Story of Boyd -- Gold Diggers and Gigolos: Sex, Lies, and Hypertext -- Who Are They? -- General Characteristics -- The Story of Kellner -- Priests and Madmen: Infinity in a Grain of Sand -- Who Are They? -- General Characteristics -- The Story of Barstow -- Robots: Kill, Crush, Deploy! -- Who/What Are They? -- General Characteristics -- The Story of Hussein -- Robber Barons: Who Needs Dynamite When We've Got IPOs? -- Who (We Think) They Are -- General Characteristics -- The Story of Welch -- Mole People: Living Large in the Net's Hoovervilles -- (Bug Report: Virus Scan Has Detected Mole People on Your Hard Drive -- Who/What Are They? -- General Characteristics -- The Story of Outis -- Afterword: Not Ready for Beta.

"True stories from the dark corners of the Internet, where platoons of perma-temp workers roam Ronin-like from job to job, anonymously holding the economy together. Offers eyewitness accounts of grueling hours, gross mismanagement, and chronic backstabbing in an industry with no real rules". -- Jacket.

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