Ben Woods
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url
http://www.goodreads.com/ben_woods
born
July 04, 1976
gender
male
place of birth
Louisville, Ky., The United States
website
genre
Literature & Fiction, Nonfiction, Computers & Internet
influences
Chuck Palahniuk, Isaac Asimov, Dave Barry
member since
December 2007
about this author
Ben Woods has held full-time computer programming positions with companies large and small, collected a stack of employee manuals and health insurance cards and worked with a litany of CEOs, PMPs, BBMs and A-HOLEs. He is a programmer and freelance writer who lives in Baltimore. His first book, a tech-humor fiction novel titled “The Developers,” discusses two key topics: online privacy and crazy people on the Internet. He has a journalism degree from Purdue University and is working on a master's degree in Professional Studies at Towson University in Baltimore.
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Corporate Ties: A Tale of Workplace Relocation (Nonfiction)
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In June 2005, Fortune 500 company Western & Southern Financial Group, based in Cincinnati, announced plans to move nearly everyone with its Louisville, Ky., subsidiary to corporate headquarters. Instead of laying off nearly 300 sales reps, actuarials, computer programmers and analysts, the company gave the “choice” of relocation. Each person mulled the idea of exchanging a laid-back, business casual dress environment for a cafeteria, a fitness center and a strangling - by a necktie (corporate attire only, please) and organizational bureaucracy.
Two months later, the men and women in suits arrived to document the documents, proactivate the buzzwords and cage the circus animals (aka tech support). Was the job worth uprooting families and lives? And why exactly do people give up their independence to become company drones?
The Developers (Humor)
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updated 06/30/2008 10:44AM
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Matt Severnson has assembled a team of hard-working, quasi-geek individuals to build a revolutionary website for a northern Michigan city. The system becomes a big hit despite the group members' idiosyncratic traits. Fast food addiction, incessant sexual tension and heated bingo competition constantly distract the team. While the opportunity arises to build the first nationwide, government-sponsored high-speed Internet portal, the issue comes second to Matt's relationship with Katy, the team's co-leader. They cannot hate each other enough to halt their steamy romance, but they can't love each other enough to share anything but a fish dinner.
The Developers mixes the insane and obscene with technology, romance and pop culture. But while the book's web development group tries to make its mark on the virtual world, it encounters pre-eminent issues that will soon be shaping the Internet of the future: Are individuals losing their remaining privacy due to the World Wide Web? Will online social interaction eventually replace in-person gatherings as a necessary means?
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Crazy '08: How a Cast of Cranks, Rogues, Boneheads, and Magnates Created the Greatest Year in Baseball History (Paperback) by Cait Murphy bookshelves: currently-reading |
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Generation of Swine: Tales of Shame and Degradation in the '80's (Paperback) by Hunter S. Thompson bookshelves: currently-reading |
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Ben said "yes" to attending the event: CityLit Festival.
date: April 18, 2009 10:00AM location: Central branch of the Enoch Pratt Free Library (downtown Baltimore), 400 Cathedral Street, Baltimore, MD, The United States description: A daylong celebration of the literary arts in Baltimore ... I'll be there selling discounted copies of my tech-humor fiction book, "The Developers." But if you stop by my booth and say you heard about it on Goodreads, I'll give you a free copy! | |||
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Ben voted on the book list Best tech-humor fiction books
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To Love Mercy (Paperback) by Frank S. Joseph |
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Little Brother (Hardcover) by Cory Doctorow |
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