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Summary: Excellent, a must-buy for computer illeterate non-nerds
Review: I have used computers for 30 years, understand what they DO, but not fully how they work.
I an now just starting to venture into the Internet - your book, therefore, fills a definite need for computer-terminoloy-illiterate people such as myself who are looking to educate themselves.
I will definitely reccommend the book to other mugs trying to lear
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Summary: High Cyber Snoot Factor
Review: If you're not careful, reading this book could make you feel pretty hip, pretty web-savvy, and maybe even a little superior; but you might feel a little dirty when it's all over. First off, and most importantly, Wired Style isn't a style book. Strunk & White for the web, it ain't. That book hasn't been written yet. Wired Style is certainly written in the Wired style, but it provides mostly definitions and few examples of usage. Wired Style *is* funny sometimes, witty sometimes and condescending often. It may help you learn a fair bit about the web. I could even say it's an engaging read. But it's not gonna help you become a better writer, which is what style guides are intended to do. A better-informed writer? OK. So, essentially, Wired Style is, you know, it's pretty snazzy, rad, awesome, boss. It's da bomb. It's way cool. (Sorry, I guess you get the point.) Which means it'll sound pretty out-dated within a few years. But it makes for a light, fun, superiority complex-inducing read right now. For those concerned with "e-mail" versus "email," "web site" versus "website" and other similar dilemmas, just strive for consistency in your own writing. Also, hyphens usually disappear over time, so if you're typing "email" instead of "e-mail," you're just ahead of the curve; we'll probably all be writing it that way eventually.
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Summary: You'll love it; you'll hate it; you'll need it.
Review: It's as bad as the most vitriolic say it is. It's as cool as the most vehement insist it is. But it's WIRED--end of story. WIRED is the de facto arbiter of digital language. The mag has positioned itself squarely between geeks and the rest of us who live in the world they make. No other wide-circulation publication (that I know of) displays both extreme hi-tech savvy and a genuine open hand to those without technical expertise. Hate them for their arrogance, their presumption, their questionable taste, their bizarre concepts of organization, but they've got the floor. What'cha gonna do?
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Summary: So terminally hip it was retro-boring
Review: Ninety percent image, ten percent content; it's the hard cover version of a virtual waste of time
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Summary: Valuable resource
Review: There is often a debate on how to treat a tech word like email. Should we be like AP or the way the digital press speaks? I found this a great compendium of latest logic in the lexicon of technology. Additionally, the editors are self-deprecating enough to suggest that the standard will likely change -- standby.
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Summary: Not the greatest book, but still indispensible
Review: There's no doubt that the Wired Style guide is not the best style guide ever written; that said, with Chicago and AP still shockingly behind on integrating usages of Internet and technology-based words into their guides, this book is absolutely indispensible. AP might give three varients of an online word, but Wired gives a more complete listing of all known varients. Whether you like it or not, if you write about the Internet, or ever have to explain Web strategy to someone in writing, you need this book. The other sources out there just don't cut it. And, as a bonus, if you use a word like "usability," and everyone looks at you funny, this book gives you a backup reference to point to, so you don't look like the one inventing words. (This has in fact happened to me, and it made me question who could possibly not have heard of usability in this day and age -- oh well.)
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Summary: Indeed a bit pompous, but has still a bigger issue
Review: Think of "Wired Style" as the 'Chicago Manual of Style' (well, sort of) as stated by Newsweek back in 1999 when this book first came out, and you probably by now can realize where the fundamental problem of the book is. While it does come accross as a bit pompous at times, indeed, the biggest issue it has is the fact that it hasn't been updated since its first edition, five years ago, an entire lifetime by Internet standards. As a result, several ubiquitous terms that you run into everywhere today are missing: blog, RSS, CSS, XHTML, flat panel, and the list goes on and on. So, as much as they ditch the more conservative AP Stylebook, it is not that much better as a tool for editors/writers working in the "digital age", so I don't see much of a point in buying it at this point any more.
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Summary: An outstanding e-reference
Review: This is one of my all-time favorite style guides. Compact, up-to-date, informational yet fun to read. Wired Style answers questions that apparently never occurred to Strunk and White (or to Chicago Manual of Style). The answers are not as prescriptive as those in some style guides, but are written more like "guides" that reveal the thought processes behind the suggestions.
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Summary: An outstanding e-reference
Review: This is one of my all-time favorite style guides. Compact, up-to-date, informational yet fun to read. Wired Style answers questions that apparently never occurred to Strunk and White (or to Chicago Manual of Style). The answers are not as prescriptive as those in some style guides, but are written more like "guides" that reveal the thought processes behind the suggestions.
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Summary: Elements of Pomposity
Review: This is the apotheosis of form triumphing over content. Put it in a slip cover! Print it on lime green paper! Give it one of those ring bindings! Oh...there's nothing to put in the book to make it worth buying...Never Mind!!!!
Worse than all the very accurate criticisms already listed here, is the fact that this book isn't as desperately needed as Wired tries to make you think. Other style manuals are working feverishly to keep up with the challenges of the Web, and many of them are doing a good job. And please, Wired, can't the Web just be a great tool and a cool thing? Does it have to be a turning point for language, civilization, writing, the universe?
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