Category: Books

  • The podcasting book now looks real

    It’s been a long time coming, but the content of “How to Do Everything with Podcasting” is about to go onto the printing presses and emerge in a few weeks’ time as an actual book. This is the book about podcasting…

  • Dean Koontz comes to Second Life

    Suspense and horror fiction novelist Dean Koontz is coming to Second Life on March 15 as the virtual stop on the promotion trail for his latest book, “The Good Guy.” Publisher Random House’s Bantam Dell imprint has teamed up with Second…

  • FIR Book Review – Second Life: The Official Guide

    In this edition of For Immediate Release book reviews, Neville and Shel review Second Life: The Official Guide. This book is a collaborative work by six writers with expert knowledge of Second Life, the three-dimensional virtual world that today has…

  • Unofficial Vista Blog Tour, Day 2: Does IE7 suck?

    Stuart Mudie and Derek Torres are co-authors of The Unofficial Guide to Windows Vista, a warts-and-all look at the new Microsoft operating system, that is due to be published by Wiley early next year. I’ve worked with Stuart in the…

  • A guidebook for Second Life

    One comment I hear frequently from people wanting to get to know the Second Life virtual world is how complicated it all can seem. It can seem daunting at times. When I first started exploring Second Life at the beginning…