From four of the liveliest personalities on the Web comes a provocative, outrageous, and wickedly smart account of what it will take to prosper in the fast-forward world on the wire. This nationally acclaimed best seller is a spirited, original, and wonderfully irreverent conversation that will challenge, provoke, and forever change your outlook on the digital economy. A rich tapestry of anecdotes, object lessons, parodies, insights, and predictions, The Cluetrain Manifesto illustrates how the Internet has radically reframed the seemingly immutable laws of business--and what business needs to know to weather the seismic aftershocks. "An earnest plea for a new kind of language and new expectations for the Web.... While others work on turning the Internet into the perfect medium for reaching traditional business goals, these four Net-philes hope cyberspace will give commerce a 'human voice.'" -Harvard Business Review "For every retail or consumer-products company wondering why its Internet marketing doesn't seem to be working, The Cluetrain Manifesto...offers fresh and sound advice, expressed in entertaining prose. Its oft-repeated premise--that markets are conversations--should be pounded into the collective brain of corporate executives." -Business Week

里克・列文/克里斯托弗・洛克/戴维・瑟尔斯/戴维・温伯格

里克・列文，Mancala公司技术总监和创始人之一。在此之前，他是太阳微系统公司“java软件组”网络设计师。他还是《太阳网络指南》（Sun Guide to Web Style）的作者。

克里斯托弗・洛克，在科罗拉多州出版了《熵梯度逆转》，曾经在富士通公司、Ricoh公司、卡内基－梅隆大学、Mecklermedia公司、MCI公司和IBM公司工作，并为《福布斯》、《互联网世界》、《信息周刊》和《产业标准》等撰写过大量文章。

戴维・瑟尔斯，《LINUX资深编辑，负责编辑新兴商业方面的文章。他在商业领域摸爬滚打多年，与人合资成立Hobskins Simone＆Searls公司，曾一度是硅谷的主要广告代理商。他为《OMNI杂志》、《个人电脑》、《逆流》、《地球和邮件》以及自己的网络杂志《现实2.0》撰文供稿。

戴维・温伯格，《JOHO》免费杂志的出版人，美国公共广播电台《时事纵横》栏目的评论员，KMWorld和Intranet Desingn Magazine专栏作家。他还为《连线》、《纽约时报》等各种媒体撰稿，并在世界各地举办过演讲会，讨论网络对商务的作用。