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Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom By Cory Doctorow A short review for this one. I almost never read fiction anymore, but four things com...

The Future of Nonprofits: Innovate and Thrive in the Digital Age By David Neff and Randal Moss Full disclosure: I know David Neff. Actual...

If you've been following this blog for a while, you might be asking: What happened to the book reviews? Answer: I'm just behind on...

Present Tense issue 2 is out. From the About page: Present Tense: A Journal of Rhetoric in Society is a peer-reviewed, blind-refereed, on...

Cospace is one of Austin's coworking success stories. When I first talked to founders Kirtus and Andrew in November 2009 , they had jus...

Cadence & Slang By Nick Disabato I have mixed feelings about Cadence & Slang , a small self-published book that its author intends t...

While I was at SXSW, Bill Hart-Davidson tweeted me the link to this fantastic blog post by Michael Wojcik: {n1,n2,n3,…} . If you have any in...

Last week I held two conversations with two very different audiences about loose organizations. On Monday, I presented at Austin's RISE ...

So my SXSWi core conversation "Hold On Loosely" was held today. I just wanted to say a quick thanks to everyone who attended and c...

Genre: An Introduction to History, Theory, Research, and Pedagogy By Anis S. Bawarshi and Mary Jo Reiff Since I bought my Kindle, I've b...

Knowledge Capitalism By Alan Burton-Jones As new economy books go, this one is a bit long in the tooth. Burton-Jones, who heads an Austral...

So next week is a big week. I'll be speaking twice - and actually, I'll be trying not to speak too much because I'm more interes...

Networks and States: The Global Politics of Internet Governance By Milton L. Mueller A few years ago, I read Milton Mueller's excellent ...

If you're here because you're considering voting for me for the ISAWR Steering Committee, welcome. Here's more about me: My curr...

Confronting the Challenges of Participatory Culture: Media Education for the 21st Century By Henry Jenkins with Ravi Purushotma, Margaret We...

Rhetorical Genre Studies and Beyond Ed. Natasha Artemeva and Aviva Freedman At a recent conference, one presenter was having trouble getting...

Last Christmas Eve, I blogged about the new skills we might need as we migrate to electronic texts . Based on my experience reading Kindle b...

Unanticipated Gains: Origins of Network Inequality in Everyday Life By Mario Luis Small Many studies that use social network analysis are a ...

Reputation: A Network Interpretation By Kenneth H. Craik I've been reading a lot of social network analysis lately, mostly in sociology ...

What's Mine Is Yours: The Rise of Collaborative Consumption By Rachel Botsman and Roo Rogers [n.b., I'm reviewing the Kindle version...