Flux friends who attended last week's excruciatingly boring if extravagantly lavish Webstock '96 party in San Francisco quickly discovered that, despite its name and location, the event had absolutely nothing to do with the Web or the City by the Bay. One school of big fish, it appears, doesn't want another school of big fish swimming in its small pond. Sources inside the Manhattan publishing community report that Random House chieftain Alberto Vitale may be the first survivor to emerge from the delirium. Agents, take note. Join the HotWired Network, it's free .
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