By Doug on March 7, 2010
I am continuing on my quest to read 52 books this year and with 15 books finished, I seem to be on pace.
The latest book was Shades of Grey, by Jasper Fforde.
Since the book had a compliance angle to it, I posted my review on Compliance Building: Weekend Book Review: Shades of Grey by Jasper [...]
Posted in Book Reviews | Tagged Jasper Fforde, Shades of Grey
By Doug on January 26, 2010
Being in the real estate industry, I am a big fan of maps. I like how they help visual the world around us. There is the physical sense of the objects around us and how to get from one point to another.
But maps can also help us visual information in many different ways. That is [...]
Posted in Book Reviews | Tagged Frank Jacobs, Strange Maps
By Doug on January 23, 2010
Dave Metz decides he wants to spend four months crossing the Alaskan wilderness with no human company. Just him and his two dogs. He tells us his story in Crossing the Gates of Alaska: One Man, Two Dogs, 600 Miles off the Map.
With two young kids at home, I’m now an armchair adventure, after a [...]
Posted in Book Reviews | Tagged Dave Metz, Skijoring
By Doug on January 17, 2010
I grew up learning about the nine planets. My son is growing up learning about eight planets. In 2006 the International Astronomical Union demoted beloved Pluto from its planetary status.
The demotion of Pluto was my impetus to read Planets X and Pluto by William Graves Hoyt. The book was written in 1981 and is since [...]
Posted in Book Reviews | Tagged astronomy, Pluto, William Graves Hoyt
By Doug on January 15, 2010
One of the challenges of parenting is finding activities that you enjoy and that your kids enjoy. The same is true with reading. There are books you like and there are books your kids like, but there are very few that you both like. The Lightning Thief is one of those few books.
Percy Jackson is [...]
Posted in Book Reviews | Tagged Percy Jackson, The Lightning Thief
By Doug on January 13, 2010
GoodReads versus LibraryThing versus Shelfari
Back in 2008, I started looking at ways to catalog my household’s book collection: Books and Knowledge Management. LibraryThing was the winner. That decision was largely driven by their ability to manually enter books. Back in 2008 GoodReads and Shelfari libraries were limited to books listed on Amazon.com.
Since then, I have [...]
Posted in Book Reviews, Publish To KM Space | Tagged GoodReads, LibraryThing, Shelfari
By Doug on January 11, 2010
Looking for a page-turning crime thriller? Wake Up Dead is violent crime story, full of bad people doing bad things.
With a book title like that you shouldn’t be expecting puppies, ponies and rainbows.
Two meth addicts on the streets of Cape Town decide to carjack a Mercedes. They pull ex-model Roxy and her husband out of [...]
Posted in Book Reviews | Tagged Roger Smith
By Doug on January 9, 2010
I finished reading Trust Agents: Using the Web to Build Influence, Improve Reputation, and Earn Trust, the new book from Chris Brogan and Julien Smith.
Most likely, you are wondering what a “Trust Agent” is supposed to be.
“Trust agents have established themselves as being non-sales-oriented, non-high pressure marketers. Instead, they are digital natives using the web [...]
Posted in Book Reviews | Tagged Chris Brogan, Julien Smith, Trust Agent
By Doug on January 5, 2010
Since Jack Vinson published the list of the books he read in 2009, I thought I would too. Although, I left off the dozens (hundreds?) of books I read to my kids during 2009.
Here they are, mostly in chronological order:
The Black Swan by Nassim Nicholas Taleb. The title of the book comes from the observations [...]
Posted in Book Reviews | Tagged Books
By Doug on January 4, 2010
Cory Doctorow tells the story in the near future of a two hardware hackers who fall in with microfinancing venture capitalists and invent the “New Work” economy, and then find themselves swimming with corporate sharks, fighting with each other, and leading a band of global techno-revolutionaries.
The New Work economy is small groups of entrepreneurs producing [...]
Posted in Book Reviews | Tagged Cory Doctorow, Makers
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