Keith Watanabe * NET 2.0

This is an interesting read by Gibson. I haven't completed it yet. However, it is and isn't standard flare by him. He's still caught up in the sociology of meaningless name dropping. This time though he's doing something in the present, which makes this piece novel (no pun intended). However, it seems that most of it was written through the eyes of a TV/Internet news aggregator and several field trips around the world (notably London and Tokyo). The Tokyo portion again has been an amusing read. He writes those portions as a tourist. There was an article off Wired Magazine on his views of Tokyo which parallels PR. I think though the funniest part was where the protagonist gets lost in Kabuki-cho. It sounds more like a real life experience for Gibson since the details seemed too real. The other portion that was odd was the 9-11 section. It seemed like he was attempting to reflect on those events, but so far I'm attempting to discern what relationship it has to the rest of the story outside of, perhaps, a tribute to the situation.