Another list for your reading and collection development pleasure. This one concentrates on more business-y books so I've only chosen the ones that relate more to social media/technology. It's 10 Business Books In 2010 from Cloud Computing.
- Cognitive Surplus: Creativity and Generosity in a Connected Age by Clay Shirky
- Open Leadership: How Social Technology Can Transform the Way You Lead by Charlene Li
- The New Polymath: Profiles in Compound-Technology Innovations by Vinnie Mirchandani
- The Facebook Effect: The Inside Story of the Company That Is Connecting the World by David Kirkpatrick
- Gamestorming: A Playbook for Innovators, Rulebreakers, and Changemakers by Dave Gray, Sunni Brown, James Macanufo
I'm always looking for recommendations and notifications of book lists as they appear in various media outlets. If you see one that I haven't covered, please let me know at jdupuis at yorku dot ca or in the comments.
I am picking up a lot of lists from Largehearted Boy.
Earlier entries in this year's list or lists can be found here and the 2009 summary post here.
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Another list for your reading, gift giving and collection development pleasure. This list is the Holiday Reading list from the Toronto Star Public Policy Forum, picked from individual lists in today's print newspaper.
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Along with tacky an inescapable Christmas music, December brings lists, as every publication that deals with music at all puts out their own compilation of songs or albums of the year.
Humans readily establish false memories. If you give adults a study list of words like hot, snow, warm, winter, ice, wet, chilly, weather, heat, freeze, shiver, frost, and then test them later, they will "remember" related words like cold that weren't actually on the list.
I follow your book recommendations/discussion closely. Thanks for posting them.
You're welcome, John. It's my pleasure -- and obsession I guess too.
Just stumbled accross this on our /scienceblogs/ section. I was looking for something like this, I think the amazon list may = my christmas list!