There's a great opportunity to participate in a hack of Amazon.com today that won't net you a big list of credit card numbers or any free books or anything, but it will let you feel like you put one over on a local giant while at the same time helped a local website save the planet. And who would pass that up? The WorldChanging book which we've been mentioning lately (here and here) is for sale at Amazon and doing well, but WorldChanging.com and their book's publishers don't really have the capacity to do the huge marketing push that is necessary today to get a book in front of a whole lot of people. In lieu of millions of dollars of PR they've designed a situation that should get WorldChanging: A User's Guide for the 21st Century way up on the Amazon bestseller's list. That list is more or less real time as it takes into consideration only sales over the last twenty four hour period, so if a whole lot of people buy a book at the same time that book is likely to be an Amazon bestseller, if only for a day. A day is enough, though, to get a whole lot of notice. People pay attention to what happens on Amazon. more ›

Alex Steffen and Bruce Sterling spoke Saturday at Town Hall to launch the book tour for the previously mentioned . more ›

Locally-based techno-environmentalists WorldChanging.com are hyping their book on Saturday at Town Hall and badass science fiction author and green futurist Bruce Sterling will be there to talk about it with WorldChanging editor Alex Steffen - Bruce wrote one of the book's introductions and recently sent this to one of his email lists: more ›

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