Mehdi ARFAOUI: Wish List. 11 Technology and Social Media Books You HAVE To Read. We spend so much of our time online reading short snippets of information about our industry that sometime we forget to take a step back and look at the bigger picture. Reading books is a great way to get some extra insight in to your industry especially in to one as new as social media. I’ve selected 11 books below that I’ve read and although they cover different levels of the industry and come at it from different angles they are all well worth a read.
If you are new to the industry or trying to find your feet then I’d order a selection of these and get your head buried in to them. There is so much waffle online when it comes to our industry that I really can’t recommend enough that you get offline (Or even better get a Kindle and download them all immediately) and start reading some of these books about social media. Here is my list of 11 books about social media that you should get stuck in to today… Re-Work by 37 Signals Socialnomics What Would Google Do? Wikinomics The Whuffie Factor. ManyBooks.net - Ad-free eBooks for your iPad, smartphone, or eBook reader. TEDTalks as of 02.04.11. Art Project, powered by Google.
Revolt of the Elites. Has any concept more completely defined and disfigured public life over the last generation than so-called elitism? Ever since Richard Nixon’s speechwriters pitted a silent majority (later sometimes “the real America”) against the nattering nabobs of negativism (later “tenured radicals,” the “cultural elite,” and so on), American political, aesthetic, and intellectual experience can only be glimpsed through a thickening fog of culture war. And the fog, very often, has swirled around a single disreputable term. The first thing to note is the migration of the word elite and its cognates away from politics proper and into culture. Today “the cultural elite” is almost a redundancy — the culture part is implied — while nobody talks anymore about what C.
Wright Mills in 1956 called “the power elite.” Mills glanced at journalists and academics, but the main elements of the elite, in his sense, were not chatterers and scribblers but (as George W. How does this work?
Movies. The World’s Most Expensive Cities 2010: New York ranks only No. 29. By Venessa Wong If you think $43 is too much to pay for lunch, you shouldn’t live in Oslo. According to "ECA International", a global human resources company, that’s how much an average lunch costs in Norway’s capital. But Oslo is only the second-most expensive city on ECA’s ranking of 399 global locations. And while the price of an average lunch in Tokyo is a comparatively modest $17.86, other costs, such as a $22 movie ticket and an $8.47 kilo of rice, earn it the dubious honor as the world’s most expensive city. ECA’s ranking is based on a basket of 128 goods that includes food, daily goods, clothing, electronics, and entertainment, but not rent, utilities, and school fees, which are not typically included in a cost-of-living adjustment. Click here to see the world’s 30 most expensive cities. Source: "ECA International"
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