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Themed reading lists: Reading about the apocalypse and immortality

Shannon — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 17:27:24 +0000

I have been having fun writing and posting themed reading lists on my book review blog, Books Worth Reading, and they have proved to be popular. Flashlight Worthy Book Recommendations has reprinted a couple of the lists, which I am now sharing with you: These Books Will Help You Survive After an Apocalypse and I Want to Live Forever: An Immortality Reading List

Also see: An Empty Earth: Notes on the apocalypse and The endless quest to live forever

Filed under: On My Blogs Tagged: Apocalypse, Book recommendations, Books, Empty earth, Immortality, Reading lists, Themes

Good reading on my blogs: January 2010

Shannon — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 18:34:26 +0000

Here’s a taste of what’s popular on my other blogs this month:

On my books blog, folks seems to be enjoying What Now? A Post-apocalyptic Reading List. I guess it’s those winter blues spurring them to read depressing novels about the end of the world (they’re my favorites too!). In fact, several people got to the list after searching for “how to rebuild society after the apocalypse.” I’m glad somebody is thinking ahead.

If you’re interested in the apocalypse, you might want to check out An Empty Earth, which is essentially my research notebook where I mix together a soup of vaguely apocalyptic thoughts, links and other resources. The Ruins of Detroit is a popular example.

Here, you guys seems to be enjoying learning how to give Google Wave invitations and how to create a GTD project list. (Does anybody actually use Google Wave? Because I haven’t found a use for it.) I have posts that are so much more entertaining, but the public likes what it likes, I guess.

I’m skipping my cooking blog, because it’s always the same posts that are popular (their titles are so Google-able).

Filed under: On My Blogs Tagged: Books, Cooking, Detroit, Empty earth, Good reads, Google Wave, GTD, January 2010, Reading lists

Reading list: Open content resources

Shannon — Sun, 27 Jan 2008 18:09:14 +0000

This valuable reading list for understanding the history and value of open content was provided in a presentation I saw last week by Paul Jones, director of iBiblio.

Anderson, Chris. The Long Tail: Why the Future of Business Is Selling Less of More.Hyperion (July 11, 2006). And the original Wired article.

Benkler, Yochai. The Wealth of Networks: How Social Production Transforms Markets and Freedom. Yale (April, 2006). Also see Benkler’s wiki where the book is free for download or purchase in several formats.

Godin, Seth. Small is the New Big. And see his blog.

Lessig, Lawrence. Free Culture: How Big Media Uses Technology and the Law to Lock Down Culture and Control Creativity. Penguin (2004). Download, remix and see his blog.

Maeda, John. The Laws of Simplicity. MIT (2006). See also the Laws of Simplicity website.

Von Hippel, Eric. Democratizing Innovation. MIT (2005). See von Hippel’s website where the book is free for download or purchase.