Publicious: Publishing Tech & Tools

Sounds like the name of a cheesy ’50s horror flick. But actually, it’s my nickname for the book I just finished, The Big Switch by Nick Carr.

I first mentioned him and the book in a post a couple weekends ago. I like my crazy title because Carr documents some futuristic doomsday scenarios that that are [...]

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Welcome to the first meeting of the Publicious Book Group. Take a seat anywhere. Coffee’s over there. Our first book is The Big Switch: Rewiring The World, From Edison to Google by Nicholas Carr. I saw it in with the new books at the library, and despite it’s aggressively undesigned cover, checked it out.

I’ll read [...]

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