A book is a book

…but what is – really – a book? Descriptively it is a manufactured item made of paper, ink, string and perhaps some leather which contains information, i.e. a representation of reality (or fantasy) as perceived or told by the author. In this age in which the concept of the “book” is being redefined, the physical, [...]

Collectors?

If you are, you MUST invest $35 for Delicious Library, a fantastic little application to catalog books, CDs and lots of other stuff. The coolest feature is the ability to enter data by reading the barcode on the item through the built-in iSight camera. Although this has been around for several years, I only found [...]

Book review: “Mozart’ complete Letters” by Marco Murara

It is absurd to call this a review, as I am only at page 25 of volume 1 (of three) but this is a very nice gift I got from Santa this year, one I am already liking a lot  and since someone asked for links, I thought it was worth a holiday blog post; [...]

Book review: “Olives” by Alexander McNabb

It is unusual for me to write reviews of narrative books, but in a way I think it is still work-related, as the author is a longtime friend and colleague. This book has a plot, so I won’t throw in any spoilers, also because the plot did not really surprise me: there’s a Brit who [...]

Book review: “The Now Revolution” by Jay Baer & Amber Naslund

This is an interesting book, and if the Authors were ever to read this review, no, I don’t want my money back ;-) The matter is laid out in seven blocks they call shifts, and the whole idea is to look at what you need to change in an organisation to make it compliant with [...]

Book review: “Social Media ROI” by Olivier Blanchard

Taking advantage of an intense travel schedule, I finished reading “Social Media ROI” by Olivier Blanchard. One of the criteria I use to determine if an essay for for me worthy the time I spent reading it is the number of highlights or notes I make to it – purely subjective, of course, but on [...]

Book review: “What technology wants” by Kevin Kelly

I just finished reading “What technology wants” by Kevin Kelly. This book IMHO finishes better than it starts: its final chapters contain more of the Author’s original and thought-provoking ideas, (including the bits featured in M.Wesch’ “The Machine is Us” excellent video) giving me once again the impression he had a short essay’ worth of [...]

Wolfram’s back

I have read “A New Kind of Science”. It was the book that made me long for a Kindle way before the Kindle was even conceived. As I wrote in an Amazon review of the book, although I never met Stephen Wolfram I received a very strong impression of someone who could easily compete for [...]

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