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One of the things I noted about the dis­cus­sions sur­round­ing “Web 2.0″ was the idea that blogs were the next weapon in guerilla mar­ket­ing, fol­low­ing the fail­ure of var­i­ous astro­turf cam­paigns to gar­ner any actual sup­port due to ease with which they were exposed. The idea is that what­ever the fail­ings of free cul­ture, it is gen­er­ally an hon­est dis­cus­sion, so peo­ple trust it, so it obvi­ously must be cor­rupted with under­cover adver­tis­ing and the crass profit motive.

Following this trend, a kindly PR per­son at Apress sent me a copy of the book, Deploying OpenLDAP, by Tom Jackiewicz, with the ver­bal agree­ment that I post a pub­lic review of it.

Like a fool, I said sure, and so am obliged to post the fol­low­ing review…
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