One of the great things about living in the Bay Area is that it remains ground zero for cutting-edge technologies and social movements, including the personal media revolution (sorry, New York, but you’ll catch up). Tonight I attended Dan Gillmor’s official book release party for We the Media. (That’s Dan in a photo I took […]
Books
Review of ‘Anarchist in the Library’
Who gets to control information, technology and culture in the digital age? That, in a phrase, is the simple and profound question raised in Siva Vaidhyanathan’s impressive new book, The Anarchist in the Library: How the Clash Between Freedom and Control is hacking the Real World and Crashing the System. The Anarchist in the Library […]
My review of Lessig’s ‘Free Culture’
When future generations look back at this unsettled era in which we’re transitioning from an analog to a digital society, Larry Lessig‘s works will provide a treasure trove. In his first book, Code and Other Laws of Cyberspace, dark forces were gathering, seeking ways to use code as a sort of privatized law to hem […]
A day at the bookstore
I haven’t had time to do much of anything while writing this book on the digital media revolution, so I’m behind on my reading. I’ll be flying to Florida Wednesday for a journalism symposium, so I headed to Borders yesterday to pick up some books. Here’s my shopping list, and here’s what they had in. […]
Looking for feedback on book chapters
One of the questions I tossed out at the blogger dinner last night was this: How much of my book about darknets and the personal media revolution should I post in the blogosphere before publication? I obtained a rough consenses that the most useful feedback loop would be created this way: By posting the entire […]