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Our crowd-sourced Xmas reading list

Wednesday, December 21st, 2011
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Thanks to everyone who replied to my tweet on Monday! Happy reading (or watching in the case of the Nick Bilton book)

Most popular
Tie between Thinking Fast and Slow, Daniel Kahneman, and The Official Steve Jobs biography, Walter Isaacson

My picks
I live in the future and here’s how it works by Nick Bilton (Video about book)
Wiera Gran L’acusée, by Agata Tuszynska
Trois Femmes Puissantes
by Marie NDiaye
Tussen twee vuren by Malin Persson Giolito 

(I also read the Steve Jobs biography which really shows you different sides of the guy. He was a genius and a complex friend)

Your picks
Here Comes Everybody, Clay Shirky
The Information Diet: A Case for Conscious Consumption, Clay Johnson
Dark Market: CyberThieves, CyberCops and You,  Misha Glenny
Wired for innovation
, Erik Brynkolfsson and Adam Saunders
Deconstructing Digital Natives, Michael Thomas
Adapt: Why success always starts with failure, Tim Harford
Where Good Ideas Come From, Steven Johnson
Thunderstruck, by Erik Larson  (about how a trans-atlantic murder investigation in 1910 showed the world the importance of radio)
The Cluetrain manifesto  
How the World Was One, non-fiction history of telecommunications by Arthur C. Clarke

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FIVE DAYS, FIVE COUNTRIES + EGI

Tuesday, September 14th, 2010
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EGI Real Time Monitor screenshot

Real Time Monitor screenshot from EGI

Apologies that my blog is a bit quiet this week.  My schedule runs from Estonia to Lithuania to Denmark to Belgium to my home country, The Netherlands! See a Danish TV interview (including me) here on the amazing care technologies Denmark is developing.

We do have some great news today though with the EGI project announcing 200,000 computers linked up across 30 countries - what amazing processing power that will provide.

For the rest, you can keep up to date via Twitter and Facebook most likely.  I will catch up next week.

MY SOCIAL NETWORK ACCOUNTS

Wednesday, June 30th, 2010
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I’m really starting to be enthusiastic about what we can do with social media. It will be a matter of testing how much time it takes to be involved in different sites, but now I have the main ones covered. From time to time my staff will also make posts so that you get good information when you need it.

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