Book: Alexander the Corrector: The Tormented Genius Whose Cruden’s Concordance Unwrote the Bible This biography of Alexander Cruden (1699-1770) – a man who I’d never heard of before – was a Christmas present. A concordance is a book that indexes every word in another book – in this case, Cruden’s Concordance indexed every word (except …
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Book: Connection Generation
Book: Connection Generation If you’re looking around in the social media space in Sydney, it would be hard not to have heard of Iggy Pintado. I first encountered his work in a “webinar” – a type of conference call with associated powerpoint deck and chatroom, and thought that while he clearly knew what he was …
Book: The Victorian Internet
Victorian Internet I picked this book up from the library when I saw an extract that seemed to be describing the modern-day tendency towards online romance. Imagine my surprise to discover that the quote was actually referring to an online romance from the late 1800’s! The “Victorian” of the title is not the state of …
book: a book of endings
Book: A Book of Endings It’s not often I get to read a book where I know the author. Reading an introduction written by another author where your friend is referred to by surname, and has many positive things said about them is an unusual experience indeed, but certainly made me curious to read the …
book: open wallets
book: Open Wallets – using Psychology to open shoppers’ wallets One of the benefits of attending coffee mornings on a regular basis is the variety of people with great ideas that I’ve encountered. One such person is Stephen Saunders, whose shoppologist blog has intrigued me. I don’t think I’d ever completely understood what he’s doing, …
book: nuChristian
book: nuChristian – finding faith in a new generation Disclosure: A while ago I read a book called unChristian and posted a review about it. This book – nuChristian – has been written in response to unChristian, and I was approached by someone marketing the book to see if I wanted to review it. He …
book: Down and Dirty Pictures
book: Down and Dirty Pictures: Miramax, Sundance, and the Rise of Independent Film This book was recommended to me by Greg from coffee mornings. For some reason, we were chatting about films in the 1990s, and he mentioned this book. Its main agenda appears to be painting Harvey Weinstein and, to a lesser extent Robert …
book: the wisdom of crowds
Book: The Wisdom of Crowds When first released, this book had a lot of blog coverage, and has been often cited, so I borrowed it from the library to see if its reputation was deserved. Why is it that a group of people with no specialist knowledge can – when you average their guesses – …
book: And then there were none
And Then There Were None I read this in an unusual way: a friend was blogging his way through it, and encouraging others to read just a chapter a day, and then comment on their thoughts of that chapter. If you’d like to do something similar, you can start at chapter one of And then …
Book: Uncle Tom’s Cabin
Book: Uncle Tom’s Cabin Again, I read this on my iPhone with Stanza, so the link is to Wikipedia. Do yourself a favour: if you haven’t read this, don’t read the plot summary, read the book instead. Published in 1852, nine years before the US Civil War, this book is a series of fictionalised accounts …