Revisiting information mania.
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The basic strategy to find information on the Internet, however, has not changed since the early days. If you really want to discover information on any topic, you have to find the maniac's site. Some people, God bless them, are information maniacs. They compulsively need to know everything there is to know about a narrow area of interest, compile it, and also can't resist sharing it with the rest of humanity, assuming that everyone shares their strange passion. Some of these are extremely serious maniacs and quite reputable and trustworthy. Others less so. An extraordinary example [of] such [an] efficient maniac attitude is Lloyd's satellite constellations website,58 actually a personal Web homepage at the University of Surrey. Lloyd Wood is a postgraduate student in Satellite Communication Engineering, on his way towards a Ph.D. Since 1995, Lloyd has enriched his homepage with market studies, explanations, technical insights, article references etc. on satellite constellations projects - a topic he knows very well, being a student in the field. The site is now probably the top source on the topic, and is independent of any industrial actor in the market. A truly unbelievable accomplishment!
-- E-management @ Work: The Internet and Office Productivity Revolution,
Michael Ballé and Godefroy Beauvallet, p. 71, 2002.