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Peter
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The Blind Assassin (Paperback)
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September 12, 2007
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Peter
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Clea (Alexandria Quartet)
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Peter
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The Mythical Man-Month: Essays on Software Engineering, 20th Anniversary Edition (Paperback)
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Peter
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Code and Other Laws of Cyberspace (Hardcover)
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Peter
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Exploiting Online Games: Cheating Massively Distributed Systems (Addison-Wesley Software Security Series)
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The Cult of the Amateur: How today's Internet is killing our culture (Hardcover)
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Peter said:
"I am still reading this, and will possibly stay up all night finishing it. I will stay up all night finishing it because it is that readable and that important. Notice that I do not say "correct"; there are parts of it with which I disagr...more
I am still reading this, and will possibly stay up all night finishing it. I will stay up all night finishing it because it is that readable and that important. Notice that I do not say "correct"; there are parts of it with which I disagree, parts of it (bloggers dodging jail time for their writing) that time has proven incorrect. It is, Keen has admitted, intentionally polemical and therefore slightly overblown. But it works wonderfully in two ways.
1) It is a beautiful stab-in-the-face to Internet 2.0 culture, a glorious attempt to assess just how it might be dragging us into a ditch. The book nicely suggests that Youtube sucks, the NY Times gets nothing when you go their website, things like Goodreads are for fools, and Amazon sucks when it destroys your local book store. These complaints are old news, in the sense that they get made by folks like the RIAA, MPAA, and those generally characterised as the villanous old media, and are ethical issues that have been floating around without good resolution for some time. Also, simply naysaying makes me glad.
2) IT RAISES QUESTIONS, and I can't explain how wonderful that is. We are surrounded by social networks - facebook is already losing ground among the cool kids, we are at the heart of an internet boom, and it is utterly and completely refreshing to have someone raise their hand and say, essentially, "I think this sucks, here's why, now go prove me wrong." Keen's theories about how advertising is changing, and about what's coming next are compelling, but demand research. And that's what the book makes you want to do. It makes you want to question, to think, to look around a bit. The number of one- and two-star reviews its pulling on Goodreads is proof-positive that it's riling people in the community up, and that's its point. NOT to be certain (though certainly pessimistic), but to make you think.
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Peter
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read in January, 2007
Peter said:
"Sci-fi action, in the purest sense. Satisfying in the way that Kill Bill, Part 1 is satisfying. A self-contained universe that provides you with the sparsest of information about the principals, and significantly more about their world -some...more
Sci-fi action, in the purest sense. Satisfying in the way that Kill Bill, Part 1 is satisfying. A self-contained universe that provides you with the sparsest of information about the principals, and significantly more about their world -something that would be hard to accomplish well in standard writing but is extremely well suited to a comic book. It's also an immense relief that the plot has none of the ambiguities of the movie. That might annoy some, but I'm quite glad for the exposition.
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