"Principles of English Usage"? I think not....
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I bought this book from Amazon.com on the advice of a good friend who writes technical support manuals for a software company; I figured it was a sure bet. I wish now that I had read the reviews before I clicked "Add this to your shopping cart." What a *perfect* example of style over substance -- and a style attempting to imitate that of _The Chicago Manual of Style_, at that (nice touch with the orange cover, kids...). This is really nothing more than a glorified glossary of terms with kicky packaging and hard-to-read pages. It's a magazine article about Internet/Web jargon on both steroids *and* acid. I expected much more in terms of content and guidance and I was sorely disappointed. I hope Amazon.com's return policy is as straightforward as it seems.
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Excellent, a must-buy for computer illeterate non-nerds
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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 learn
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A Must for Cyber Writter
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For the ignorant of cyber culture this book will introduce a basic concept of smart and honest writting procedure in the Literature of the Digital Era.
For the Wired magazine readers, it increase our sentimental-loving feeling of cyber culture. For the geeks, be proud of yourselves, geeks ruled. For writter of the 21st century, this book is a-must.
The best thing about this book, there is always an update on the expansion of WiredStyle writting (the book called it WiredStyle 2.0), which is located in http://www.wiredstyle.com
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This is the worst book ever.
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This is THE worst book of all time. Half of the definitions are useless (ie. nintendo, game, etc). The other half are mostly all poorly defined. Even if you wanted to find a definition for something it would be impossible because for some reason they group certain terms into lots of different chapters so you never know where something is, like what section would crt be in, Be Elite, Screw the Rules, G Gloabl. Trust me and the other people that have written about this book, don't buy it ever. Buy a good computer dictionary and your set (ie. Dictionary of Internet and Computer Terms ($15) or Cyber Dictionary ($22) or anything except for Wired Style, I encourage anyone who has seen this book to write about how poor this book is and people that don't believe us or are going to buy it, go to your library and rent it first and you'll see.
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Don't waste your time, let alone your money.
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Anyone who thinks this book is a "style manual" has clearly never used one. A more accurate description would be a glossary, you know, the kind which appears in the back of old textbooks and defines things you already knew. Some of the acronyms which have found their way into this book would be interesting if you were doing a term paper on obsolete technical terms. Big disappointment all around.
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