Joe

“The last thing that Dan Lyons (Newsweek columnist and author of Options: The Secret Life of Steve Jobs) wrote as Fake Steve Jobs is Reality Check’s foreword. It is, in my opinion, the best foreword in the history of man.”

What if you could file-share someone's consciousness? Would it be a violation, or the ultimate communication therapy? A short story by Cory Doctorow.

“If you want your customers to start talking about your products and services, this book is a must read.”

"You get to be yourself," said 13-year-old Adela Sanchez, taking a break from a robotics experiment using Legos. "When you're in a school with guys, you worry about what guys think."

Amazon Kindle terms of service and your freedom.

To the Net-based cognitive tools that are changing our lives -- Wikipedia, Google, and the others of their kind, now and in the future.

“Of the many works of fiction that are published, very few involve mathematics or mathematicians. However, people who like mathematics (or are mathematicians ourselves) may especially enjoy reading those few that do.”

The most surprising conclusion in The Wealth of Networks for me was the fact that the new attention economy is still built on the same principles as in The Wealth of Nations. Specifically the principles of self interest, division of more...

“Many businesses act as if they have a stake in their suppliers and other vendors. Instead of scaling the part of their business that can move quickly and well, they defend the part they don't even own.”

“The group that listed the books followed the same pattern as the earlier test--they all cheated a little. But the group that named the commandments was different: Nobody cheated at all!”

“You can improve your writing (your business writing, your ad writing, your thank you notes and your essays) if you start thinking like a blogger”