FAIL! See I made an internets meme. But seriously, FAIL. This book is an ego-feeding experience for the author. "How Stories Live and Die in Viral Culture" is part of title, not "How fucking cool am I?" I stopped reading half way through because I was tired of reading the author talk about his exploits. I was looking for some interesting research into viral culture but instead got graphs about how many hits his endeavours got. Snoozapaloza.

• dave1618
• February 28, 2010
• And Then There's This
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Being fed up with 2.0 as a whole, this book isn't working for me and also it's more about the writer than it is about Viral Culture. Big surprise since, 2.0 is all about ego gratification.

• dave1618
• February 20, 2010
• And Then There's This
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While the topic was interesting and right up my alley, the writing style wasn't. Kinda dull really. But it's a short book that I would recommend as a good read. I wanted more meat and perhaps following a book by Dawkins and his keen playful intellect I was taken aback by Thompson's manifesto-esque penchant.

• dave1618
• February 13, 2010
• Counterknowledge
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If Dawkins wrote stereo instructions, I’d buy the stereo just to read the instructions. When a man of such superior intellect and dry wit writes a book, it is your duty to read it. This book is all about demonstrating that evolution is a fact to all those creationists and history deniers who continue to distort history, science and common sense to promote their agenda. And of course it’s loaded with nerdy goodness about nature, biology and DUH! Evolution. If I weren’t such a hardcore atheist I would elect Dawkins to become God.

• dave1618
• January 28, 2010
• The Greatest Show on Earth
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