Three Books in Three Weeks

In the last three weeks I have read three books with the help of audible.com. My weekly TWIT, BUZZ OUT LOUD and FLOSS WEEKLY podcasts are piling up because I have just pushed thru “Trust Agents”, “Weaving the Web”, and “The Accidental Billionaires” and really enjoyed them all.

Trust Agents by Chris Brogan and Julien Smith is a great book about motivation, social media and how to put them both together with some hard work and determination to improve you online presence. I was left with this thought …

Take what you have and what you are good at and share it with others. Do not wait on the sidelines. Get in the Game.

 

Weaving the Web by Tim Berners-Lee is a great story about how the World Wide Web and HTML was started. After reading this book I which was published in 1999 I was struck by how much work we still need to continue the evolution of the web. Has a real local flavor to it with Cambridge and MIT and I am waiting for the follow-up book on the Semantic Web.

I enjoyed The Accidental Billionaires especially the local (Cambridge MA) setting and listening to how they worked 24 x 7 to get this up and running, but was left with a distain for Marc Zuckerberg who according to the allegations in the book, screwed multiple folks on his rise to the top.