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Pastimes : Bring Back SI Bob! -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: greenspirit who wrote (654)	3/4/2001 11:33:47 AM
From: (Bob) Zumbrunnen	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 808

Actually, I've recently started assembling a lot of material and thoughts in rough chronological order in Word. Did about 20 single-spaced pages worth in just a couple of days. Don't know if it's a book or not. I'll just keep writing it until I feel like I'm done with it, then see what I think of it at that point. Some of it's off the top of my head (my preferred way of writing), but most of it is from copious notes I've kept along the way. But the job was full of highs and lows. Sometimes in the same day. Like one time when I was having a pretty good day, having headed off what was looking to be a huge blowup in the community, then encountered a public message from a user I really appreciated for their frequent, unopinionated and unemotional reports of biggie violations. The public message addressed me by a derogatory name and suggested someone send me a link that told me to go have carnal knowledge of myself. I was hurt, and that was one of the few times I really showed it. That person later apologized publicly, but it was one of the few bridges I ever felt had been permanently torched. I've been really wondering if there's a (marketable) book in it and how to go about finding out. What I've accumulated so far includes what I've learned (the hard way) about the dynamics of groups and cliques on the internet, the market itself, the do's and dont's of online communication, and how to really read what's being said, not only by online denizens, but by companies in their press releases. Man, there are so many stories!!! Do any of the following ring a bell? Rocketeers Shareholders' Cartel CS/TLC (he could make a whole book bringing people up to speed on specific events on SI, then putting in CS posts as exclamation points -- and I'd rush right out to buy it) FBN "bashers" The list is endless. If there's a book in it, the problem wouldn't be finding material. The problem would be deciding what 10% of the excellent material to use. Heck, there's enough material to take the C. S. Lewis approach. The Chronicles of Adminia? Anyone know a publisher who'd be game?