O'REILLY ANNOUNCES "SPIDER OR FLY?" CONTEST

Writing contest offers $5000 in prizes for best answers to "Are we masters
of the Web or trapped in it?"

O'Reilly & Associates and the NETFUTURE newsletter are sponsoring "Spider
or Fly?," a writing contest that seeks responses to the question, "Are we
masters of the Web or trapped in it?" The best of the entries will be
published by O'Reilly & Associates. First prize is $2500. Four second
prizes of $500 each and five third prizes of $100 each are also offered.
The contest judges are Dale Dougherty, President, Songline Studios;
Leonard Muellner, Professor of Classics, Brandeis University and
Supervisor of Production Tools, O'Reilly & Associates; Tim O'Reilly,
President, O'Reilly & Associates; and Frank Willison, Managing Editor,
O'Reilly & Associates.

O'Reilly editor Steve Talbott, moderator of the NETFUTURE newsletter and
author of "The Future Does Not Compute," describes the focus of the
contest:

"Catching the dew and sunlight, and serving as an efficient means of
livelihood, a spider's web is one of the glories of creation. Depending on
your perspective, a spider's web is also a prison--the most delicate,
flexible, and refined instrument imaginable for immobilizing life."

"As you and I settle into the World Wide Web, are we in the role of the
spider or the fly?"

"The "Spider or Fly?" contest invites you to illuminate the deep nexus
between computerized networking technologies and the human being. Where,
amid all the dizzying technical advances, do we carry responsibility for
their social consequences? How can we exercise that responsibility? Have
we been embracing it or shirking it? In other words: does the Web own us,
or do we own it?"

O'Reilly's Web site (http://www.ora.com) contains detailed information on
the contest in the "What's Up" section. Direct URL to contest information
is: http://www.ora.com/staff/stevet/netfuture/sof/announce.html

PRESS CONTACT:
Steve Talbott (http://www.ora.com/staff/stevet/)
stevet@ora.com
518-672-5103

O'Reilly & Associates
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