Amazon’s announcement last night’s of the latest and greatest version of the Kindle brings back a bunch of conflicting feelings in me. Part of me is tempted by the promises of a limitless catalog and the ability to carry thousands of books with me, while a larger part of me is perfectly content to hang […]
Every couple of weekends, the four year old and I make a trip to the library to pick out a fresh batch of books while his little brother stays at home with mom for an afternoon nap. Yesterday, we came back with about two dozen new books for bedtime reading. It turns out that I’m […]
I’ve been a regular reader of Andrew Sullivan’s blog for a few years now. His political analysis is top-notch, and I find Andrew’s discussion with readers to be consistently thought-provoking in a way I rarely see on other blogs (here’s a brilliant example from today). One of the daily diversions Sullivan has incorporated into his site is […]
Stepping into the wayback machine for a moment, three years ago I highly recommended that you read Thomas Friedman’s excellent book, The World is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century. The book’s topics – technology and globalization – are even more relevant than when it was first released. So, if you haven’t had […]
I came across an interesting article in the New York Times today about a recent graphic novel version of the Bible. The Manga Bible: From Genesis to Revelation portrays Jesus as a tough samurai seeking revolution. I still don’t know much about the specifics of this book, but it sounds interesting. Seems like a decent […]
Several months ago, I received an advanced copy of Nicholas Carr’s newest book, The Big Switch: Rewiring the World, from Edison to Google. I immediately read through most of it while on a business trip and yesterday finally managed a few minutes to finish the last few pages. So, here’s my slightly-late review of this […]
I give up. In any design, once you learn how to do something once, you should be able to do it again. This is really horrible. That is design guru Don Norman talking in a New York Times article about a poorly designed Kodak digital picture frame he was trying out at a Best Buy […]
Here’s a quick post before getting back to my homework… A little known programming language has been getting more attention lately thanks to my favorite programming book publishers, the Pragmatic Programmers, announcing an upcoming book on the subject. It’s called Erlang, and was created by the Ericsson corporation about a decade ago for use in […]
A couple of weeks ago I received a free advance review copy of Ben McConnell and Jackie Huba’s new business book, Citizen Marketers: When People Are the Message. I’m a couple of chapters into it, and so far it looks to be at least as good as their now classic (in my opinion) Creating Customer […]
About a month ago, I checked out a book from the library called Why Johnny Can’t Brand : Rediscovering the Lost Art of the Big Idea. The name is a take off the 1950’s title Why Johnny Can’t Read, and got my attention enough for me to give it a chance. I’m glad I did. […]