Funny what can happen with quotes. Reading Chris Anderson’s latest book Free: The Future of a Radical Price I came across his version of the now-famous line “the information wants to be free” – often used to define the digital era. The author of this line is Stewart Brand, creator of the Whole Earth Catalogue, [...]
Maybe I’m missing something but is this guy ever cranky. Andrew Keen, in Cult of the Amateur, is in a permanently bad mood. He’s mad at citizen journalists, anyone who contributes to Wikipedia, anyone who reads Wikipedia, Second Life, craigslist… just Web 2.0 all ‘round. I worked my way through the book (published in 2007 [...]
Wonderful to meet Shel Israel last night at Third Tuesday here in Vancouver. I spoke to him and found him unassuming, funny and helpful. Shel was in town to promote his book Twitterville. www.twitterville.com I like his approach – he’s not telling readers how to use Twitter. Instead it it’s about what Twitter can do [...]
I really could not put this book down. Loved it. Jeff Jarvis, in What Would Google Do? writes with a conversational, almost intimate style that kept me engaged – at times laughing – as he portrayed the admiration he has for Google without being cloying. The book’s about more than just Google – it’s a [...]