Archive for 2005

The Search

Saturday, December 31st, 2005

How Google and Its Rivals Rewrote the Rules of Business and Transformed Our Culture by John Battelle ISBN: 1591840880

You can't write a book about search without writing (a lot) about Google. Yet

The Rabbi’s Cat

Sunday, November 13th, 2005

by Joann Sfar ISBN: 0375422811

This book contains three stories about an Algerian Rabbi and his cat. The character you as reader are aligned with is the unusual feline -- he talks.

Yes,

Design for Community

Sunday, October 30th, 2005

The Art of Connecting Real People in Virtual Places by Derek Powazek ISBN: 0735710759

If you are looking for a technical manual on the backend systems supporting community sites, this isn't it. If

Believers

Sunday, October 30th, 2005

by Charles Baxter ISBN: 0679776532

This collection contains seven stories and a novella, and each has what I think of as Baxter's trademark: real people living their real lives, imbued with quiet