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Welcome from the Editor
Thanks for visiting Technology & Society Book Reviews! I'm Curtis Frye, a professional freelance writer and actor from Portland, OR. While most of my commercial writing is about Microsoft Office products, I was the lead author of O'Reilly & Associates' market research report The State of Web Commerce and also wrote Privacy-Enhanced Business, from Quorum Books. Shorter works include a chapter on Web Commerce for Margy Levine Young's Internet: The Complete Reference, Millennium Edition and an article entitled "Regulated Privacy" (on encryption controls) for the premier edition of Infobahn magazine.
My goal for Technology & Society is simple: to develop the site into the definitive source for reviews of the literature documenting technology's interactions with society. With that goal in mind, I've allocated some of my writing income to pay for reviews from other authors and to purchase advertising on select sites. I'm hoping the increased exposure and more frequent reviews will bring visitors, who will in turn tell their friends about the site, starting the word of mouth advertising that is so important to smaller sites.
The Team
I'm proud to introduce the four new writers who bring valuable experience and writing ability to Technology & Society:
Kirk McElhearn (kirk@mcelhearn.com) is a freelance writer and translator living in a village in the French Alps. You can find out all about him at his web site, http://www.mcelhearn.com.
M. E. Tyler's work has appeared in national magazines and high-profile web sites. A former software developer, Tyler has an eclectic technical background, programming for both the Mac and Windows and working as a Web site developer. Tyler was the ebook review editor for ForeWord Magazine and the editor-in-chief for ForeWord Reviews, and is the regular book review columnist for Writer's Exchange and for eBook Web. Tyler owns Private Ice Publications <http://www.skatefic.com>, a niche publishing house dedicated to publishing the best sports fiction for women.
John Zukowski does strategic Java consulting with JZ Ventures to provide direction, architectural advice, design, debugging, and code reviews, plus custom solution development. He received a B.S. in computer science and mathematics from Northeastern University and an M.S. in computer science from Johns Hopkins University.
I also published several reviews from John D. Wilkins, a Ph.D. candidate in Science and Technology Studies at Virginia Tech, and one review from my brother Doug Frye, a Ph.D. candidate at George Mason University.
What This Site Is Not
- A Sales Vehicle
- I want Technology and Society to grow, but not at the
expense of objectivity. For instance, I won't try to sell you any books I
review through an affiliate program. Never take any salesman at face
value, let alone one who claims to be objective.
- A Closed Site
- I want your feedback and will print all letters, whether they are positive, negative, or in between.
Thanks
Nothing makes a writer happier than knowing that someone somewhere is reading his work. I sincerely appreciate your time and hope Technology & Society makes its way onto your list of favorite bookmarks.