The Emerging 2.0 World: Three Book Reviews

I usually review one book at a time in this blog. Not today. These three excellent books go so well together that I can’t help sharing them all at once. Each one examines an aspect of the web 2.0* social networking revolution (and the technology supporting it), and then projects into a not-too-distant future. That [...]

Read Full Post »

Come On People (Bill Cosby)

The Civil Rights movement of the 1950s and 1960s went a long way toward assuring black equality under the law. So why does actual success elude many African Americans more than forty years later? Racism may still be a factor, but Bill Cosby and Alvin Poussaint argue that many of the problems holding back progress [...]

Read Full Post »

The Wisdom of Crowds (James Surowiecki)

This book is a few years old now, and I read it some 18 months ago, but I want to include my review here since the intriguing concept persists in sociology and culture. What a curious phrase is “wisdom of crowds.” Like you, I had heard of the “madness of crowds” and “unruly mobs” … [...]

Read Full Post »