Category: Books

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  Artivism as Activism in Laguna Canyon

  It was only recently that I learned of the term “artivism.” It came to me through a friend by way of an amazing project and a book. The project emerged from the mind of Mark Chamberlain a California artist who used his formidable photography talents to mobilize a community. With the…

  September 30, 2018
• Automobiles Books Convergence Culture Model S Radio Science Technology Tesla

  Tesla: Inventor of the Electrical Age: Book Review.

  A search on Amazon of “Nikola Tesla in books” will repaint your browser with 1,872 choices. A Viemo search on Nikola Tesla will yield 552 videos across 56 pages. That’s too much content for me to absorb with my busy schedule so I did what I always do when faced with so many choices.…

  December 26, 2013
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  Les Miserables Close-up

  Les Misérables has been told countless times since Victor Hugo gave us his enormous novel. I uncovered over 50 small and large screen versions with only modest effort. Even Orson Welles tackled it on radio in 1937. Les Misérables is probably best known in contemporary times as a musical that began…

  December 31, 2012
• Books Convergence Design iPad Kindle Publishing

  The Printed Word: Why Books Will Survive the Digital Age

  I’ve always been a book person. No, I mean a BOOK person. Collector, curator, lover of the dust jacket, size, shape and smell of the printed word on paper. I know how books are paginated, printed, bound, packed, shipped, and how to write a publishing contract. My first career was…

  January 6, 2012
• Books Social Media Technology

  Trust Agents – Book Review

  Just finished Trust Agents: Using the Web to Build Influence, Improve Reputation, and Earn Trust by Chris Brogan and Julien Smith. Timely topic and certainly these gentlemen are more than qualified to tackle this subject. You never know what you are going to get with books. They can be academic…

  November 24, 2009
• Books Kosmix.com Social Media Technology Twitter

  Kosmix.com – Table of Contents for the Web

  My roots are in books. I ran a chain of retail bookstores in the ’80’s, became a buyer at a wholesaler responsible for making fiction and non-fiction merchandising decisions for dozens of national chains, and eventually evolved to publishing. As the web emerged one of the obvious shortcomings I observed…

  March 16, 2009
• Books Customer Experience Shopping

  Barnes and Noble.com Making Progress

  I know, I know, Amazon is where everyone goes to buy books, videos, even snow blowers. But for the pure book person, like me, Barnes and Noble is still the preferred destination. Clearly Amazon’s site has been ahead for years, but the in store experience is not available to Amazon…

  January 25, 2009
• Books Social Computing Social Networks

  Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing without Organizations – Book Notes

  Clay Shirky’s book, Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing without Organizations combines the revolution of social networking with real world, real people examples. Throughout the book, Mr. Shirky takes what could have easily ended up as classic case studies (boring) and brings them to life with characters and a…

  August 13, 2008
• Books Forrester Research Social Computing Social Networks Technology

  Groundswell: Winning in a World Transformed by Social Technologies – Book Notes

  It seems all the marketing world is abuzz over social media. Everyone wants to do it, but there is no best practices approach to follow. That is until now. Charlene Li and Josh Bernoff, two high powererd analysts at Forrester Research published a book this spring containing their recipe for…

  August 7, 2008
• Books Convergence Technology

  All the World’s a Sage

  Marshall McLuhan’s watershed work The Medium is the Massage: An Inventory of Effects is obviously the inspiration for this post. I first came across his book in 1967 and was completely blown away. My best friend, Tim, a budding graphic designer and fantasy artist, came running up to my front door…

  June 27, 2008