Table of Contents & Sample Chapters
Back Cover Author Photo
The photo of me on the back cover of my book is pretty small, about the size of a postage stamp. One of my wife’s friends said I must be pretty ugly for them to have needed to use such a small picture! Well, you can judge for yourself. The picture here is the same size as it appears on the back cover. Click on if for a blow-up. The picture was taken in front of the Capitol during a February 1996 snowstorm, photo by Jeff Hecker.
- Foreword by Jim Warren
- Introduction
- Prologue
- Why Wire Washington?
- The Case Of Television
- The Beginning
- Bulletin Board Systems
- North Shore Mac
- The White House, the House, and MIT
- Electronic Mail
- Congressional E-mail Addresses
- Spamming Congress
- Locating Your Congressman’s E-mail Addess
- Sending Electronic Mail to Congress
- Tools of the Trade
- Usenet
- Listservers
- FTP/Gopher
- What You Will Find
- Electronic Town Halls and Press Conferences
- The World Wide Web
- CapWeb
- Who Puts Congress on the Net, and What Do They Put There?
- GPO
- House Information Systems
- The Library of Congress/THOMAS
- What You Will Find
- Newt’s Net?
- The Making of a Capitol CobWeb
- What to Look for on Member Home Pages
- Generic and Genuine Home Pages
- Congressional Committees
- Tales from the Trenches
- April Fools or Real Life?
- Rules
- The Access Fight Grinds On
- The Great Senate Web Hack
- Pornographers and Terrorists
- Campaigns and Opposition
- 1992
- 1994
- 1996
- The Race for the White House
- House and Senate Campaigns
- Tom & Jerry Preview Campaign ’96 on the Net
- Watch, Opposition, and Unofficial Home Pages
- Can the Net Make a Difference?
- What’s Ahead
- Epilogue
- Appendix
- Index