books

Books I wanna Read:

[[w:Smartmobs]]

• About: Flashmobs
• Desire: High
• Audio: Yes

[[w:Democratizing Innovation]]

• About: Free Culture, it’s free online
• Author: Eric Von Hippel
• Recommended by: Lessig
• Desire: High

[[w:Darknet]]

• About: Free Culture, released May ’05
• Recommended by: Lessig

[[w:The Humane Interface]]

• About: In The Humane Interface, Raskin goes into detail describing how computers can be made easier to understand and use.
• Author: Jef Raskin
• Recommended by: Matt L.
• Desire: Low

[[w:Culture Jam]]

• About: The founder of Adbusters magazine, Lasn aims to stop the branding of America by changing the way information flows; the way institutions wield power; the way television stations are run
• Author: Kalle Lasn
• Recommended by: Didier
• Desire: Low

[[w:Philip and Alex's Guide to Web Publishing]]

• About: Talks about backend web publishing/services/databases, very highlevel, interesting viewpoints.
• Author: Philip Geenspun
• Recommended by: Heard an interview w/ Philip on Itconversations
• Desire: Low

[[w:The Hidden Power of Social Networks]]: Understanding How Work Really Gets Done in Organizations

• Author: Rob Cross, Andrew Parker, Robert L. Cross
• Recommended by: Eric of IBM, in the SNA community
• Desire: High
• Audio: No

Books that inspired Meetup

• Cluetrain Manifesto by Locke/Levine/Searls/Weinberger
• Great Good Place by Ray Oldenberg
• Bowling Alone by Robert Putnam
• Ideavirus by Seth Godin
• Emergence by Steven Johnson
• The Tipping Point by Malcom Gladwell
• The Control Revolution by Andrew Shapiro
• Media Virus by Douglas Rushkoff

[[w:Age of Spirtual Machines]]

• About: Futureof machines/humans, [[w;singularity]]
• Author: [[w:Ray Kurzweil]]
• Recommended by: Lon
• Desire: High

[[w:The Man who mistook his wife for a hat]]

• Recommended by: Steve, Interesting
• Desire: med

[[w:Jack]]

• About: Business?
• Recommended by: Steve
• Desire: low

[[w:Death by Meeting]]

• About: Business
• Recommended by: Steve
• Desire: med

[[w:Oryx and Crake]]

• About: Genetic modifications
• Author: Margaret Atwood
• Recommended by: Kristine
• Desire: high
• Audio: Yes

[[w:How to Win Friends and Influence People]]

• About: Self
• Recommended by: Lon
• Desire: high

[[w:Who Moved my Cheese]]

• About: quick read

[[w:The Cathedral & the Bazaar]]

• About:

[[w:Moving Mt. Fugi]]

• About: easy read

[[w:The Pyramid Principle]]

• About: Business (amazon UK for $50)
• Author: Barbara Minto

[[w:The Diving Bell and the Butterfly]]

• About: A Memoir of Life in Death: Jean-Dominique Bauby (editor of Elle, stroke)

[[w:Template]]

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Books I’ve Read:

• [[w:Blink]], loved it
• [[w:The Tipping Point]], loved it
• [[w:The World Is Flat]], loved it
• [[w:Freakonomics]], loved it