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Title: Small Pieces Loosely Joined: A Unified Theory of the Web by David Weinberger ISBN: 0-7382-0850-7 Publisher: Perseus Publishing Pub. Date: 06 May, 2003 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $16.50 |
Average Customer Rating: 4 (23 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Significant Thoughts Loosely Joined
Comment: Significant technologies affect the environments within which they operate. Environments shape, warp & re-define the technologies that operate within them. But until "Small Pieces Loosely Joined", there hasn't been a single worthwhile analysis of what these effects are and what they mean.
This *may* be the first significant book written about the major changes the Internet is (and will be) causing among the important minority of people who constitute The Wired World. It's not a business book (though aspiring entrepreneurs would learn some valuable lessons from it), nor is it a "how to" guide. The work is philosophical, sociological, but fun accessible to any reader that has interacted with other people or companies on the web or in a newsgroup. Weinberger's language tends to be simple, and sometimes colorful (e.g., "Knowledge started out fat and chewy", before launching into descriptions of opinions on knowledge from the Bible and Heraclitus).
I don't agree with the author on all his conclusions. And I'm not sure that readers who are widely-read on the social effects of computer networking will not know already many of his explanations.
But there's more valuable, insightful thinking in the first chapter of this book than in any other half-dozen Internet books you could name. If you're interested in how the Internet is changing our institutions and our way of relating to each other, and in what directions this might lead in the future should consider this lively and fun book.
Rating: 4
Summary: Insightful look at what the web has taught us
Comment: The reason that I chose to read this in the first place was that I was seeing it listed in sidebar after weblog sidebar, so it seemed like the "in" book to be reading right now. I quickly discovered that there is good reason for all the buzz. This book will probably be solely remembered for its spin on the Warhol quote that "on the Internet, everyone will be famous to 15 people" (loose paraphrase), and that's a shame, because it's so much more than that. Weinberger asserts that the advent of the Web has forced us to take a hard look at our assumptions about things like space, time, relationships, and what really matters to us. The Web, rather than something that is inherently good or bad, is a fairly accurate reflection of who we are as a society. Weinberger's style is both enlightening and disarming. I would highly recommend this to anyone who wants to learn more about where we've come since the Web's introduction, and (perhaps) where we're going.
Rating: 5
Summary: Everything is connected
Comment: This is a great book that helps define what the internet is and how it is effecting our lives. This book provides great insight and gets you thinking about what we do every day on the internet. Are we being more social or anti-social if we spend more time on the internet? We are creating the internet with every web page and every weblog. It's like writing a book that never finishes.
This book looks at the internet by looking at Space, Time, Perfection, Togetherness, Matter and Hope.. This really gets you thinking about what the internet is and what it will become...
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Title: Smart Mobs: The Next Social Revolution by Howard Rheingold ISBN: 0738206083 Publisher: Perseus Books Group Pub. Date: 15 October, 2002 List Price(USD): $26.00 |
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Title: The Cluetrain Manifesto: The End of Business as Usual by Christopher Locke, Rick Levine, Doc Searls, David Weinberger ISBN: 0738204315 Publisher: Perseus Publishing Pub. Date: 09 January, 2001 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: Linked: How Everything Is Connected to Everything Else and What It Means by Albert-Laszlo Barabasi ISBN: 0452284392 Publisher: Plume Books Pub. Date: 29 April, 2003 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: Emergence: The Connected Lives of Ants, Brains, Cities, and Software by Steven Johnson ISBN: 0684868768 Publisher: Scribner Book Company Pub. Date: 01 September, 2002 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: The Future of Ideas: The Fate of the Commons in a Connected World by Lawrence Lessig ISBN: 0375726446 Publisher: Vintage Books USA Pub. Date: 12 November, 2002 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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