"Impressed by William Ralston Balch’s 1895 The Complete Compendium of Universal Knowledge, Daniel Newman sought to produce a snapshot of our moment in an age in which knowledge is now data bits that circulate unrestricted on the Internet. The book employs only downloaded texts and images. The only classificatory structure is the alphabet."
Reference URL: http://www.theagyuisoutthere.org/abotm/books/?p=428 , 12/10/2015.
"In an effort to model itself on The Complete Compendium, Newman’s WWW will include text and images, most lifted directly from the Web, that highlight curious items, strange stories, hoaxes, and other forms of Web misinformation, presented in a stream-of-consciousness manner designed to mirror the mechanics of the Internet itself."
Reference URL: http://www.biscaynetimes.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=267:the-book-as-artwork&catid=38:art-a-culture&Itemid=154 , 12/10/2015.
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