Wikinomics: How Mass Collaboration Changes Everything by Don Tapscott My rating: 4 of 5 stars This book is interesting, though in some ways it shows its age. For instance, you need to overlook the references to Myspace as the examplar … Continue reading
The Rest is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century by Alex Ross My rating: 5 of 5 stars Art is always in dialog with the time of its creation, so this book is looking at 20th century music. But in … Continue reading
Gutenberg the Geek by Jeff Jarvis My rating: 5 of 5 stars This short book (more of an essay, really) was sold as an Amazon single. I got it because I have been thinking about the premise that seeing how … Continue reading
Star Wars on Trial: Science Fiction And Fantasy Writers Debate the Most Popular Science Fiction Films of All Time by Matthew Stover My rating: 3 of 5 stars This is not a book for everyone, but it is interesting for … Continue reading
The Clockwork Universe: Isaac Newton, the Royal Society, and the Birth of the Modern World by Edward Dolnick My rating: 4 of 5 stars This was a slightly tricky book to rate. I gave it four stars out of five … Continue reading
Without Hesitation by Hugh Shelton My rating: 4 of 5 stars This was a departure for me. I got interested while listening to talk by Ruth Suehle at Ohio LinuxFest in 2011. Gen. Shelton had become Chairman of the Red … Continue reading
The Innovator’s Dilemma: When New Technologies Cause Great Firms to Fail by Harvard Business School Press My rating: 5 of 5 stars This is deservedly a classic work in the business and technology area because it highlights an interesting problem: … Continue reading
I recently finished reading Clayton Christensen’s classic work The Innovator’s Dilemma: When New Technologies Cause Great Firms To Fail, which I read on my Android phone using the Amazon Kindle app. I will probably post a review separately, but this … Continue reading
When you are looking at the issues around publishers, media companies, copyright, and DRM, you are looking at economics. As a former economics professor that is something I like to think about, and I believe there are some interesting implications … Continue reading
I genuinely love eBooks, to the point that I will rarely even think of buying anything else. Some people may regard that as heresy, and I understand the lure of physical books. When I was a boy I used to … Continue reading
