About activism and the net. I am put off by most computer self help books being written for business applications. I wonder if anyone else is studying the explosion of the Diummies books, the Complete Idiot guides and the more serious less funny books on how to "program computers". What if I want to program in XML or AJAX and don't want to sell anything? Am I really in the computer self help book audience? Does any one care to discuss this? I have written an undergrad paper introducing the semiotics of the computer self help press. Is anyone working in this area of study? Peter Timusk, B.Math statistics (2002), B.A. legal studies (2006) Carleton University Systems Science Graduate student, University of Ottawa. just trying to stay linear. Read by hundreds of lurkers every week.