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http://www.bcs.org/server.php?show=nav.10340 Karen Lawrence Oqvist http://virtualshadows.wordpress.com/ “Web 2.0 and social networking sites are challenging traditional notions of privacy and security in cyberspace, at a time when surveillance and tracking in the real world have reached endemic proportions. As the gap between virtual and reality becomes increasingly blurred by current and emerging technologies, the way we communicate and interact with one another is changing as well. But what are the implications for our privacy, and what impact will this have on our safety and security? "Virtual Shadows" provides a fascinating glimpse into this brave new Information Society. It covers a diverse range of topics which span the 4 key areas of privacy (information, bodily, communications and territorial), where the rules of play have not yet been clearly defined, much less understood” In truth this book is for someone who knows nothing about privacy, identity, the informat

From the inside of the cover …. “You are what you share.  That is the ethic of the world being created by YouTube and MySpace, Wikipedia and Facebook. We-Think is a rallying call for the shared power of the web to make society more open and egalitarian. We-Think reports on an unparalleled ware of collaborative creativity as people from California to China devise ways to work together that are more democratic, productive and creative. This guide to the new culture of mass participation and innovation is a book like no other, it started first online through a unique experiment in collaborative creatitiy involving hundreds of people across the globe. The generation growing up with the web will not be content to remain spectators. They want to be players and this is their slogan “We-Think therefore we are” http://www.wethinkthebook.net/home.aspx A very good book for those who are thinking outside of the Box.  I like the approach and the story.  Leadbeater dev

Obliquity – Why our goals are best achieved indirectly I read a lot and I add most of my books to my reading lists and sometimes I blog about the book and what I like, mostly because it acts as a reference for me in the future.  However, this book is different, I 100% recommend it and it is an 11 on the volume scale of 10.   Many thanks to Rory Sutherland for the recommendation. Obliquity is the principle that complex goals are best achieved indirectly.  The book explains why the happiest people aren’t necessarily those who focus on happiness, and how the most successful cities aren’t planned. And if a company announces shareholder return as its number one goal, perhaps we should beware: the most profit-orientated companies aren’t usually the most profitable. Paradoxical as it sounds, if you want to go in one direction, the best route may involve going in another.  All that management theory of direct is undone in the book and it comes back to how to bring a team with you witho