According to Wikipedia, Open Government is a "political doctrine which holds that the business of government and state administration should be opened at all levels to effective public scrutiny and oversight." As such, this book is a col...
Computer books have a mostly-justified reputation for being pretty dry reading- I mean there's nothing funny about Silverlight; so No Starch Press' Friends With Benefits is appealing different- the authors are not above having a bit of f...
Wikinomics is a book about how collaborative techniques are changing the way people work together and what this means to businesses. It follows the format of other books, notably Thomas Friedman's The World is Flat, in how it presents...
Huffington Post's guide to blogging is a bit about blogging and a lot about the Huffington Post. I had a hard time figuring out who this book was aimed at; it's probably meant for two kinds of people: people who like the Huffington Pos...
The poetic title sums up programming the Atari VCS: coders had to literally write their games timed around the movement of the electron beam drawing on the TV screen in millions of homes during the late 1970's and early '80s. This book i...
Stealing MySpace is the story of the birth of one of the first and largest social networking websites from its origins as a side project of Internet-marketers eUniverse though its growth and eventual sale to Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. i...