Protest.net, Bound and Printed

Ego surfing is an honorable tradition; punch your name (or affiliation) into Google, and see what people are saying about you. We’ve all done it. However, it never occurred that Amazon with its new full text index, was ready and primed for ego surfing.

Until this morning that is, when we got an email from Inner Ocean, the publisher of MoveOn’s new book 50 Ways to Love Your Country. (with apologies to Paul Simon?) Apparently Protst.net is mentioned in the book, and they’ll be sending us a complimentary copy.(and we decided probably made better sense to tell them to ship it to Seattle rather then Rome)

Now alive to possibility, I went and checked. Turns out Amazon shows 11 books that mention Protest.net. (plus a few false positives, and no sign of the MovOn book)

• Public Relations on the Net: Winning Strategies to Inform, & Influence the Media, the Investment Community, the Government, the Public, & More, Shel Holtz, November 1998
• Steal This Computer Book 3: What They Won’t Tell You About the Internet, Wallace Wang, May 2003
• The Wrong Men: America’s Epidemic of Wrongful Death Row Convictions, Stanley Cohen, October 2003
• To Mend the World: Women Reflect on 9/11, Marjorie Agosin (Editor), October 2002 (specifically Pax.Protest.net)
• Governance and Public Policy in the United Kingdom, David Richards, Martin Smith, September 2002
• Handbook of Disability Studies, Gary L. Albrecht, Katherine D. Seelman, Michael Bury (Editors), May 2001
• Rethinking Empowerment: Gender and Development in a Global/Local World (Routledge/Warwick Studies in Globalisation), Jane L. Parpart (Editor), February 2003
• Conquering Consumerspace: Marketing Strategies for a Branded World, Michael R. Solomon, May 2003
• Global Civil Society 2002, Centre for Civil Society, January 2004
• Hub Culture : The Next Wave of Urban Consumers, Stan Stalnaker, October 2002

Indymedia, has 43 mentions. (some overlaps)