The Book Club

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Comment by Rebecca Thompson on May 27, 2009 at 4:07pm

Wikinomics offers a good overview of how mass collaboration translates as a new model for the web.

But there's something wrong about books about digital change. You almost feel like the book must have been out of date by the time it hit the printers.

Comment by David Smith on April 24, 2009 at 4:59pm

Clay Shirky's an obvious choice. His excellent book Here Comes Everybody (http://www.herecomeseverybody.org/) covers a lot of ground and is very readable. He writes for a range of media outlets and blogs fairly infrequently here: http://www.shirky.com/. Liked his article at the start of the year in the Media Guardian, here: http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2009/jan/05/clay-shirky-future-newspapers-digital-media

Comment by Lol Scragg on February 2, 2009 at 5:06pm

Unfortunately, none of the audiobooks I have read fit into the social networking categories, but I can highly recommend audible.com :) I would love to read an old fashioned book - I have enough unread ones on the many bookshelves in my house, however I just never seem to find time, and given that audiobooks (and podcasts, bless Radio 4/5!) can be 'read' in the car during a commute, they are a lifesaver... Anyway, fingers are getting sore now and I need to cue Predictable Irrational for the journey home!

Comment by Tulip on February 2, 2009 at 4:58pm

Audio book reviews would be very welcome!

Not sure how you could define a book - perhaps simpy 'published material'? No hard and fast rules anyway, I personally enjoy the paper kind with a comfy sofa and coffee :)

Comment by Ewan McIntosh on February 2, 2009 at 4:47pm

Audio books, paper books, even those ones on the Sony reader are all up for discussion. I need to get some links in here, too - plenty of cheat sheets online for some great books if you don't have enough planes or trains to get stuck in the snow in :-)

Comment by Lol Scragg on February 2, 2009 at 4:44pm

can you join even if you haven't read a paper book for over a year (apart from when stuck on a flight of course.). Are audiobooks okay as that is all I read/listen to these days (do you read or listen to an audiobook?)???

Comment by Stuart Cosgrove on January 24, 2009 at 8:59pm

Bill Drummond's 17 is a great series of manifestos and passion-logs about music by the KLF founder.

Comment by Tulip on January 14, 2009 at 6:01pm

Noooooo! Hope Doug's enjoying the Clay Shirky book ;)

I'm working on 'We-Think' at the moment... it's pretty good! It's a social experiment as well as the author posted drafts on the internet prior to publishing so that everyone could comment on and alter it. I think it worked really well for him.

Comment by Marie Olesen on January 14, 2009 at 5:26pm

very nice dear.
what is a book again? ....


oh, the ones you bought and will never see again!??!

Comment by Tulip on January 13, 2009 at 9:15pm

Cheers for those! :) I particularly like 'Everything you know about CSS is wrong!' ;)

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