Eric Shackle is a retired journalist whose hobby is searching the Internet and writing about it. He is author of The World's First Multi-National e-Book, http://www.bdb.co.za/shackle. His work has been published by the New York Times (US), The Observer (UK), Globe and Mail (Canada), Sydney Morning Herald (Australia) and Straits Times (Singapore). He writes for webzines in US, Canada, UK, South Africa, South Korea and Australia, and is copy editor of Anu Garg's Seattle-based A Word A Day free newsletter, which is e-mailed five days a week to more than a million word lovers in 200 countries.