Internet
An annotated collection of 3 books & papers on internet, spanning 1997 to 2008. Featuring works by Michael H. Goldhaber, Tim Berners-Lee, Clay Shirky — each with editorial commentary oriented to digital product practice.
The Attention Economy and the Net
Goldhaber's 1997 essay coined "the attention economy" as a framework for understanding the internet — the argument that in a world of information abundance, the scarce resource is not information but human attention, and…
Weaving the Web
The story of the World Wide Web told by its creator. The most relevant thing is not the technology but Berners-Lee's insistence that there was no grand plan — only a problem to solve (sharing information between CERN res…
Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations
The cost of organising people falls to zero on the internet, and that wipes out intermediaries and layers of management that used to be necessary. Shirky documents how informal groups achieve results that once demanded f…