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1. Tom Clancy says:

   May 13, 2008 at 8:45 am

   Ha, I just bought the first two as a 2-for-1 deal at Amazon. The only Internet-relevant book I’ve read recently (and I think I may have already bugged you about) was Halting State by Charlie Stross. It’s a interesting and fun take on the future of MMORGs, social networking, geo-location and the interplay of meat space and virtual space.
2. Onur Orhon says:

   May 13, 2008 at 10:52 am

   Funny, I’m about to post a list of what I’m reading currently, but just wanted to mention “Made to Stick” by Chip & Dan Heath. Very interesting read about communicating ideas to masses.
3. lizkdc says:

   May 21, 2008 at 5:03 pm

   Hey, look over there! (steals reading list).

   Oh ok, here’s something in return. I’d recommend to other folks in the Web 2.0 world: “Johnny Bunko”
   http://www.johnnybunko.com/

   by biztech guru Daniel Pink

   It’s the sort of career guide that might have appealed to people who ended up in the open source/open culture/social media world, had there been anything like it when we were starting out.
4. chris kelty says:

   May 31, 2008 at 9:45 pm

   thanks for the plug john… it’s great to be in such illustrious company, hope I can hold my own
5. John says:

   June 1, 2008 at 9:41 am

   @tom – you did mention Halting State before – in fact I had checked it out of the library but it got recalled before I started reading it. Guess I’ll have to buy a copy.

   @onur – I’ve had Made to Stick recommended several times – I will check it out.

   @lizkdc – thanks for the Johnny Bunko recommendation. I loved A Whole New Mind (one of Pink’s other books).

   @chris – while waiting for my physical copy to arrive I started reading the PDF – definitely good stuff so far. Looking forward to getting further into it.

   @all – sorry for the generic Gravatar avatars – clearly something’s gone wrong in my avatar plugin – maybe an interaction with the caching plugin? I’ll take a look.
6. Bullets of “Designing for the Social Web” by Joshua Porter « My Perspective says:

   June 23, 2008 at 10:21 pm

   [...] got interested, and bought his book (even before it was published ). When it got on John’s summer reading list, I was sure that the book is going to be good… and, oh yeah, it [...]