Rule the Web

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Today, web companies like Flickr and Google are making it possible for users to search, create, and discuss in ways never imagined, unlocking a universe of imagination and creative potential. We are witnessing the birth of a new, vastly more useful Internet. "Rule of the Web" is the user's manual. Uberblogger Mark Frauenfelder is a tech writer in a league of his own, with cutting edge web savvy and the ability to translate geek-speak into plain English. The blog he founded, Boing Boing, is an online tastemaker with two million regular readers. In "Rule of the Web", Mark points out the best tools and resources for doing everything from browsing anonymously to using disposable credit card accounts to shop online. The book includes: basic and advanced solutions for every problem; avoiding scams, safeguarding your privacy, and protecting your children; getting news and blog posts delivered automatically; generating the perfect stock portfolio and then tracking your finances online; setting up your own blog or podcast; and, everything Web 2.0: YouTube, MySpace, Flickr, and more.

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"Frauenfelder knows the answer to every question you have ever asked. Luckily he has written it all down here for you, on non-electric pages which even you can understand." --John Hodgman, author of The Areas of My Expertise and correspondent for The Daily Show with Jon Stewart

"Frauenfelder doesn't just live on the cutting edge...he is the cutting edge." --Seth Godin, author of Small is the New Big

"When it comes to capturing the zeitgeist of the Web, nobody does it better than Mark Frauenfelder." --John Battelle, author of The Search

"Rule the Web is like The Joy of Cooking, only it's about the Web instead of meatloaf." --Xeni Jardin, NPR News technology contributor

Author Bio

Mark Frauenfelder is the founding editor of the world's most popular blog, BoingBoing.net, as well as the editor-in-chief of the hit technology magazine Make. Formerly an editor at Wired and a technology columnist for Playboy, he is frequently interviewed for television, radio, and print, including MSNBC, The Wall Street Journal, The Los Angeles Times, and Business Week.