Dave Burke : Freelance .NET Web Developer specializing in Online Communities

I was looking forward to reading Wikinomics: How Mass Collaboration Changes Everything after skimming through it at our local Barnes and Noble. Authors Don Tapscott and Anthony Williams wrote about the new collaborative Web and how businesses can benefit from tapping into that collaborative creation... [More]

David Kline and Dan Burstein are the authors of Blog!: How the Newest Media Revolution is Changing Politics, Business, and Culture. They were more like editors, since the book was a collection of interviews of blogging inflentials in politics, business and media. If you skip past the politics sectio... [More]

Hyperwars: Strategies for Survival and Profit in the Era of On-line Business by Bruce Judson was written in the heyday of 1999, when the web was still new and the sky was the limit.  It certainly reads like a 1999 book, but that's not necessarily bad.  The more simple wisdom of that era is... [More]

Smart Start-Ups: How Entrepreneurs and Corporations Can Profit by Starting Online Communities from David Silver had some novel concepts and Silver shared them with a lot of enthusiasm.  The book dropped off hard after around page 130, however, when the author spent 100 pages describing hypothet... [More]

I was excited when Groundswell: Winning in a World Transformed by Social Technologies from Charlene Li and Josh Bernoff of Forrester, Inc, arrived from Amazon a few days ago.  I made sure it was placed at the top of my Nordic Track Must Read stack.  The book was written for corporate exec... [More]

It's easy to say a book is a classic, but Crossing the Chasm by Geoffrey Moore is one of them.  Chasm was originally published in 1991 and is as insightful today as it was 17 years ago.  5 out of 5 stars.  Excerpts from the first 100 pages below.  Many more in the remaining 100 p... [More]

Digital Darwinism: 7 Breakthrough Business Strategies for Surviving in the Cutthroat Web Economy by Evan I Schwartz is a light read, but an enjoyable one.  With a publication date of 1999 it's rather dated, but there remain excerpts for you aplenty.   Ironically, most of the companies... [More]

I knew I'd enjoy Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations by Clay Shirky and I wasn't disappointed.  Shirky writes about the dynamics of groups and collaborative productivity in an environment where online communities can now so easily be created and maintained. ... [More]

I purchased Evolve! : Succeeding in the Digital Culture of Tomorrow by Rosabeth Moss Kanter from Amazon just recently after reading an excerpt and several positive reviews.  I made the mistake however of failing to notice that the most recent review was entered in 2002 and that the book's copyr... [More]

In Present at the Future, NPR Science Friday host Ira Flatow writes about trends in science and technology.  The book covers issues in nanotechnology, space travel, global warming, alternative energies, stem cell research, and using the universe as a super–super computer.  Geeky and illumi... [More]