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Erik Ringmar has an article on his latest book A Blogger’s Manifesto: Free Speech and Censorship in the Age of the Internet posted in the Huffington Post.

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A not so positive review of Erik Ringmar’s A Blogger’s Manifesto by Christopher Howse: A Blogger’s Manifesto: By so many, to so few in the Spectator.

First I must say parenthetically, for those who take no cognisance of such things, that blogs are no more than diaries that people post up on their own websites, hoping that some desperate wanderer or other in cyberspace might like to read them.

Hmmn, Christopher Howse semms to have a very simplistic view of blogs.

The world had 70 million bloggers last April, and the number may have doubled since then. Britain now has four million bloggers. Most blogs are read by fewer than 10 people a day. Only 10 per cent have more than 100 hits a day. You’d reach a wider audience if you photocopied a few sheets of paper and left them on the Underground.

Okay, then. 4 million blogs multiplied by 10 people a day gives 40 millions readings a day of just British blogs. That is lot. The Lobdon tube would become very messy, if 40 millions let alone 4 millions photocopies were to be left there for people to pick up and read every day.

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Here’s a book that I would love to find the time to read: Biobazaar - The Open Source Revolution and Biotechnology by Janet Hope.

The question that Janet Hope explores in Biobazaar is: can the open source approach do for biotechnology what it has done for information technology?

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Giving life to Death: Wladyslaw “Adzio” Moes
(left, center) with friend and sisters
photo: Carroll & Graf

This is kind of fun. One of the main characters of one of my favourite novels, Thomas Mann’s Death in Venice, the young Polish boy Tadzio was in fact modelled after a young Polish boy called Wladyslaw “Adzio” Moes. Read more here: http://www.villagevoice.com/books/0349,barra,49149,10.html.

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After having read both Amsterdam and Saturday with great joy I bought a copy of Ian McEwans latest novel On Chesil Beach in the airport on the way to my family’s winter holidays. After having swalloved the about 160 pages in about two days, I have to say that this is one of the best books that I have ever read.

The story is universal and compelling. The characters are described with such insight, feeling and delicacy. And McEvan has a way with words that even a non native English speaker like me will have to appreciate. I really had to make my self aware constantly while reading On Chesil Beach not to run through the pages just to get further on with the story but also to read each line carefully to enjoy the prose.

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I read during my Xmas break my friend Erik Ringmar’s latest book “A Blogger’s Manifesto”. It is big fun ro read. Erik writes in a very straightforward, no-nonse language that does not in any way resembles the academic style that an ex-LSE scholars may have used

The book is highly recommendable to anyone who needs a quick and up-to-date introduction not only to the political and sociological aspects of blogging but Erik also provides the novice with a very intelligent description of the basics regarding blogging tools and technicalities.

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Denne bog “Børnespørgehjørne” af Tor Nørretranders anbefales på det varmeste til højt læsning for videbegærlige børn. Og det næstbedste er, at alle os ikke naturvidenskabeligt bevandrede voksne også får forklaringer med

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My good friend Erik Ringmar from way back in 1992 at the European University Institute has just published his latest opus: A Blogger’s Manifesto.

Buy it now at Amazon.co.uk
Pre-order it at Amazon in the US (out in November)
Download it for free

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Everything Is Miscellaneous: The Power of the New Digital Disorder by David Weinberger

What Is Your Dangerous Idea?: Today’s Leading Thinkers on the Unthinkably edited by John Brockman

Code: Version 2.0 by Lawrence Lessig

The Wealth of Networks: How Social Production Transforms Markets and Freedom by Yochai Benkler

Infotopia: How Many Minds Produce Knowledge by Cass R. Sunstein

After Dark by Haruki Murakami

Motherless Brooklyn by Jonathan Lethem

Disgrace by J. M. Coetzee

Jeg overvejer meget seriøst at tage 14 dage fri til næste år for at læse så meget som muligt af den nye verdensidehistorie “Tankens Magt” redigeret af blandt andet Hans Siggaard Jensen (der på billedet fortæller om udgivelsen på årets BogMesse i Forum).

Værket har fået rigtig gode anmeldelser som udover kompentent at være yderst homogent og læsevenligt. Sikken en intellektuel saltvandsindsprøjtning det ville være at få mulighed for at læse det mere eller mindre i et stræk.

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