Archive for the 'Books' Category
As noted earlier, Librarything is a handy place to post books and an example of new media working together with, rather than competing with, old media. Which is why I am rather frustrated that wordpress is doing some kind of censoring of Librarything widgets in the borders of blogs hosted on wordpress.com. Why [...]
Many people have noticed that the web has not treated all old media equally. The recording music industry is having its business model stressed by both the long tail of available music, as well as large-scale copying. Newspapers have had their ad revenue streams decimated by on-line phenomena such as craigslist.
However, books have [...]
Instead of updating manually my reading list, I’ve started an account at Librarything:
http://www.librarything.com/catalog/ee_eff
A Process that (very strangely) is under the radar of most right now is the expansion of the Not-for-Profit Sector into fields that were traditionally the exclusive reserve of the for profits. There was an interesting article in The McKinsey Quarterly* a while back that caught my attention with some facts about the Not-for-Profit [...]
My move is complete and I have even got my internet service up after some troubles with AT&T. Also, I’ve got much more efficient at reading on the train. One book that was very good was Blink by Malcolm Gladwell and is highly recommended, although it is particularly hard to summarize in [...]
I’ve not been posting lately–I have been very busy with projects, including selling my house, buying another one, moving the accumulating detris of 12 years, which will happen later this month–but will have a couple of posts before then, but only a couple.
One will be about the complexity of competition and cooperation and the [...]
There are so many little nuggets in Amartya Sen’s book Development as Freedom that I really don’t know where to start, as there were so many little post-it notes stuck at passages that I thought were either entertaining or made excellent points, or contained interesting perspectives on points I’d thought about before that I stopped [...]
Just finished the excellent book Collapse by Jared Diamond. I had read portions of his earlier Guns, Germs and Steel, and really liked his approach in that book, too. One of the things that make his book so convincing is his ability to see things from many points of view (the really essential cross-disciplinary approach), [...]
Just finished the excellent book Collapse by Jared Diamond. I had read portions of his earlier Guns, Germs and Steel, and really liked his approach in that book, too. One of the things that make his book so convincing is his ability to see things from many points of view (the really essential cross-disciplinary approach), [...]
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