ZDNet UK book reviews by Wendy M. Grossman:

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2011

• Surveillance or Security?, by Susan Landau (6/22/11). Why it's such an incredibly bad security idea to build wiretapping into the base layer of the Internet.


• Decade of Change (6/6/11), edited by Geoffrey Brewer and Barb Sanford.


• Living with Complexity, by Donald A. Norman (5/20/11). It is not complexity that drives men man, but ineffective communication and poor design.


• Enterprise Social Technology, by Scott Klososky and crowd (5/4/11).


• Where Good Ideas Come From, by Steven Johnson (4/7/11). Exposing the myth of the lone inventor.


• The CIO Edge, by Graham Waller, George Hallenbeck, and Karen Rubenstrunk (3/14/11).


• Astroturf Wars, written and directed by Taki Oldham (2/11/11).


• The Master Switch, by Tim Wu (1/24/11).

2010

• Law and the Internet, 3rd edition, by Lilian Edwards and Charlotte Waelde (12/8/10).


• The Twitters of Sir Bonar Neville-Kingdom (11/26/10).


• The Silent State, by Heather Brooke (11/11/10).


• The Facebook suite: The Social Network (Aaron Sorkin), The Accidental Billionaires (Ben Mezrich), and The Facebook Effect (David Kirkpatrick) (10/19/10).


• Empowered: Unleash Your Employees, Energize Your Customers, Transform Your Business, by Josh Bernoff and Ted Schadler (10/1/10).


• Logicomix: an Epic Search for Truth, by Apostolos Doxiadis and Christos H. Papdimitriou (art by Alecos Papdatos and Annie Di Donna) (8/25/10).


• Wild West 2.0: How to Protect and Restore Your Online Reputation on the Untamed Social Frontier by Michael Fertik and David Thompson (6/30/10).


• Fatal System Error by Joseph Menn (5/24/10).


• Anywhere: How Global Connectivity is Revolutionizing the Way We Do Business by Emily Nagle Green (4/27/10).


• You Are Not a Gadget: A Manifesto by Jaron Lanier (3/23/10).


• Fun, Inc: Why Games Are the 21st Century's Most Serious Business, by Tom Chatfield (3/11/10).


• Googled: The End of the World As We Know It by Ken Auletta (3/10/10).


• 140-character reference - The Twitter Book by Tim O'Reilly and Sarah Milstein, and This is Social Media: Tweet, Blog, Link, and Post Your Way to Business Success, by Guy Clapperton (3/9/10).

2009

• Delete: The Virtue of Forgetting in the Digital Age by Viktor Mayer-Schönberger (11/16/09).


• Tetraktys by Ari Juels (8/21/09).


• The Real Business of IT: How CIOs Create and Communicate Value by Richard Hunter and George Westerman (8/17/09).


• Tetraktys by Ari Juels (8/17/09).


• The Future of the Internet - and How to Stop It by Jonathan Zittrain (7/31/09).


• Grown Up Digital by Don Tapscott (6/12/09).


• The Myths of Innovation by Scott Berkun (5/19/09).


• The Public Domain by James Boyle (4/3/2009)


• The Google Way by Bernard Girard (5/19/09).


• Burning the Ships by Marshall Phelps and David Kline (4/3/09).


• Microsoft 2.0 by Mary Jo Foley (3/6/09).

2008

• Schneier on Security by Bruce Schneier (10/22/08).


• Founders at Work by Jessica Livingstone (6/19/08).


• Managing Humans by Michael Lopp (2/22/08).


• The Cult of the Amateur by Andrew Keen (2/1/08).


• Valley Boy by Tom Perkins (1/18/08).


• Beyond AI: Creating the Conscience of the Machine by J Storrs Hall (1/11/08).

2007

• Digital Identity Management edited by David Birch (11/30/07).


• The Design of Future Things by Donald A. Norman (11/16/07).


• Nanoethics: The Ethical and Social Implications of Nanotechnology edited by Fritz Allhoff, Patrick Lin, James Moor, John Weckert (10/15/07).


• Send: The How, Why When, and When Not of Email by David Shipley and Will Schwalbe (8/3/07).


• Sex.com: One Domain, Two Men, Twelve Years and the Brutal Battle for the Jewel in the Internet's Crown by Kieren McCarthy (7/25/07).


• Privacy on the Line: the History and Politics of Wiretapping, Second Edition by Susan Landau and Whitfield Diffie (7/12/07).


• Dreaming in Code by Scott Rosenberg (6/14/07).


• Play Money by Julian Dibbell (6/12/07).


• The Wealth of Networks by Yochai Benkler (4/24/07).


• The Long Tail by Chris Anderson (3/23/07).


• The Perfect Thing, by Steven Levy (2/07).


• Andy Grove: The Life and Times of an American by Richard S. Tedlow (2/7/07).


• Brave New Ballot: The Battle to Safeguard Democracy in the Age of Electronic Voting by Aviel Rubin (2/2/07).


• Tough Choices: A Memoir by Carly Fiorina (1/18/07).

2006

• Convergence Culture, by Henry Jenkins (12/06).


• Who Controls the Internet? by Jack Goldsmith and Timothy Wu (9/13/06).


• Plundering the Public Sector: How New Labour are letting consultants run off with £70 billion of our money by David Craig and Richard Brooks (8/4/06).


• The Man Behind the Microchip: Robert Noyce by Leslie Berlin (8/3/06).


• Women in Information Technology: Research on Underrepresentation edited by J. McGrath Cohoon and William Aspray (7/5/06).


• Spychips by Katherine Albrecht and Liz McIntyre (6/28/06).


• What the Dormouse Said by John Markoff (5/3/06).


• Internet Forensics: Using Digital Evidence to Solve Computer Crime by Robert Jones (4/4/06).


• Defeating the Hacker by Robert Schifreen (3/30/06).

2005

• Work Goes Mobile: Nokia's Lessons From the Leading Edge (12/22/05).


• Security and Usability edited by Lorrie Faith Cranor and Simson Garfinkel (12/12/05).


• The Search: How Google and Its Rivals Rewrote the Rules of Business and Transformed Our Culture by John Battelle (11/16/05).


• Blog!: How the Newest Media Revolution is Changing Politics, Business, and Culture by David Kline and Dan Burstein (10/5/05).


• Switching to VOIP by Ted Wallingford (9/2/05).


• We the Media: Grassroots Journalism By the People, For the People by Dan Gillmor (9/9/05).


• Open Source for the Enterprise: Managing Risks, Reaping Rewards, by Dan Woods and Gautam Giuliani (9/05).


• iCon: The Greatest Second Act in the History of Business by Jeffrey S. Young and William L. Simon (6/29/05).


• Rip-Off! by "David Craig" (6/28/05).


• CODE: Collaborative Ownership and the Digital Economy edited by Rishab Aiyer Ghosh (7/1/05).


• Malicious Cryptography: Exposing Cryptovirology by Drs Adam L. Young and Moti Yung (8/23/05).


• RFID: Radio Frequency Identification by Steven Shepard (6/15/05)


• The Digital Person by Daniel Solove (6/8/05).


• Uncommon Sense by Peter Cochrane (5/4/05)


• The Art of Intrusion by Kevin Mitnick and William L. Simon (4/19/05).


• Defending the Digital Frontier by Jan Babiak, John Butters, and Mark W. Doll (3/22/05)


• PC Hardware Annoyances: How to Fix the Most Annoying Things About Your Computer Hardware, by Stephen J. Bigelow (3/05).


• Spam Kings by Brian McWilliams (2/28/05).


• Word Hacks by Andrew Savikas (2/17/05).


• Breakthrough: Stories and Strategies of Radical Innovation by Mark and Barbara Stefik (1/19/05).

2004

• High-Tech Crimes Revealed: Cyberwar Stories From the Digital Front by Steven Branigan (11/17/04).


• Succeeding with Open Source by Bernard Golden (10/28/04)


• Wi-Foo: The Secrets of Wireless Hacking by Andrew A. Vladimirov, Konstantin V. Gavrilenko, and Andrei A. Mikhailovsky (10/28/04)


• Free Culture by Lawrence Lessig (10/27/04)


• Beyond Fear by Bruce Schneier (10.27/04)

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