Archive for October, 2005

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 you are looking for up to the minute, latest and greatest on social web sites, this book isn’t that, either. (No book could be: for [...]

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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 oddness or desperation or brokeness. His stories suck me in, and I often find myself waiting for something big to happen, only to realize that [...]

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The Brief and Frightening Reign of Phil

Wednesday, October 12th, 2005

by George Saunders
ISBN: 1594481520
I’ve said before that Saunders writes sick, funny stories, and that he may be a genius. I told you that finding humor in the darkness they way Saunders does is something we are likely to need more of in the future.
So do you really need me to tell you that The Brief [...]

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