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Everything Is Miscellaneous: The Power of the New Digital Disorder
David Weinberger

Holt Paperbacks, 2008

Valuable Overview

+ The New Enlightenment
+ Every Try Creating/Organizing a Website?
+ Architecting the future: meta-data
  
  











  



  
Wikinomics: How Mass Collaboration Changes Everything
Taps Don, Anthony D. Williams

Portfolio Hardcover, 2008

Must read to keep up with the times!

+ Could be helpful if you are new to the topic...
+ The future of economics

Excellent book. I promise you'll learn a lot! Great info to take back to your organization. It provides a different mindset on how to do things and that in itself is worth the read. You'll also be amazed at what companies are doing to stay abreast and be shocked how those who aren't doing are ...
  
  











  



  
Smart Mobs: The Next Social Revolution
Howard Rheingold

Basic Books, 2003

Remote Control To The World

+ A whirlwind tour through the world next year.
+ Smart Mobs. Smarter Marketers.

How many of you recall that EF Hutton commercial that started off by saying, "When EF Hutton talks, people listen". The same thought can be applied to Howard Rheingold. Rheingold is veteran technology watcher and well-publised futurist. He has identified yet another transformative technology. In ...
  
  











  



  
The Cult of the Amateur: How Today's Internet Is Killing Our Culture and Assaulting Our Economy
Andrew Keen

Nicholas Brealey Publishing, 2007
  
  











  



  
Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations
Clay Shirky

Penguin Press HC, The, 2008

Great Quality Political Analysis

+ An Excellent school book
+ Good analysis, a bit repetitive
+ Communication Effects Society
+ Everybody should read it
  
  











  



  
Who Controls the Internet?: Illusions of a Borderless World
Jack Goldsmith, Tim Wu

Oxford University Press, USA, 2008

Understand the complexity of the Internet

+ Interesting book
+ Rompiendo ilusiones sobre internet
+ Who Controls the Internet
  
  











  



  
The Social Life of Information
John Seely Brown, Paul Duguid

Harvard Business School Press, 2002

Superb Primer for Any Age

+ Information is not Epiphany

I come to this book eight years after it was first published, and with all the accolades and superb reviews that it has already accummulated, my primary focus here, apart from flagging the book for those that follow my reviews, is to suggest that it is one of the finest overviews available and ...
  
  











  



  
The Future of the Internet--And How to Stop It
Jonathan Zittrain

Yale University Press, 2008

Brilliant

+ A major stake in the ground on the policy implications of the net

Watch Video Here: http://www.amazon.com/review/R18D30YU9QC3KT An important book well worth reading.
  
  











  



  
Tagging: People-powered Metadata for the Social Web (Voices That Matter)
Gene Smith

New Riders Press, 2008

Tagging is a new form of information management that relates to personal organization, info architecture, and online communities

+ The new metadata science
+ Tagging helps create community
+ Great Strategic Principles and Tactical Examples
  
  











  



  
Against the Machine: Being Human in the Age of the Electronic Mob
Lee Siegel

Spiegel & Grau, 2008

The Great Digital Unwashed

+ Every tool can be good or bad -- it depends on whose hands are using it

This book, as the title suggests, is about the negative and destructive aspects of the Internet. Many of us, even true believers, have always felt instinctively that it was not all good. From the outset it should be noted that cultural critic Lee Siegel is keenly aware of its power. He writes ...
  
  











  



  
Everything Is Miscellaneous: The Power of the New Digital Disorder
David Weinberger

Holt Paperbacks, 2008

Valuable Overview

+ The New Enlightenment
+ Every Try Creating/Organizing a Website?
+ Architecting the future: meta-data
  
  











  



  
Tagging: People-powered Metadata for the Social Web (Voices That Matter)
Gene Smith

New Riders Press, 2008

Tagging is a new form of information management that relates to personal organization, info architecture, and online communities

+ The new metadata science
+ Tagging helps create community
+ Great Strategic Principles and Tactical Examples
  
  











  



  
Against the Machine: Being Human in the Age of the Electronic Mob
Lee Siegel

Spiegel & Grau, 2008

The Great Digital Unwashed

+ Every tool can be good or bad -- it depends on whose hands are using it

This book, as the title suggests, is about the negative and destructive aspects of the Internet. Many of us, even true believers, have always felt instinctively that it was not all good. From the outset it should be noted that cultural critic Lee Siegel is keenly aware of its power. He writes ...
  
  











  



  
Who Controls the Internet?: Illusions of a Borderless World
Jack Goldsmith, Tim Wu

Oxford University Press, USA, 2008

Understand the complexity of the Internet

+ Interesting book
+ Rompiendo ilusiones sobre internet
+ Who Controls the Internet
  
  











  



  
Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations
Clay Shirky

Penguin Press HC, The, 2008

Great Quality Political Analysis

+ An Excellent school book
+ Good analysis, a bit repetitive
+ Communication Effects Society
+ Everybody should read it
  
  











  



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