Books by Steven Johnson
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Emergence: The Connected Lives of Ants, Brains, Cities and Software
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Shared links- Twitter powered subtitles for BBC iPlayer
Experimental project embeds Twitter posts as subtitles within BBC iPlayer - Internet 2009 in numbers | Royal Pingdom
Lots of figures about the internet in 2009, with sources cited for each statistic. High-level stuff but handy anyway - The 4 Big Myths of Profile Pictures « OkTrends
OKCupid analyse over 7,000 dating profile pictures to see what works and what doesn't, exploring gender differences and the enduring effectiveness of the "Myspace pose"
- Twitter powered subtitles for BBC iPlayer
Now Reading
Planned books:
- The Great Shark Hunt: Strange Tales from a Strange Time (Picador Books) by Hunter S. Thompson
- A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction (Center for Environmental Structure Series) by Christopher Alexander
- Forms that Work: Designing Web Forms for Usability (Interactive Technologies) by Caroline Jarrett, Gerry Gaffney
- The Production of Space by Henri Lefebvre
Current books:
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Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson
Recent books:
- Linked: How Everything is Connected to Everything Else and What it Means for Business and Everyday L by Albert-Laszlo Barabasi
- Ambient Findability: What We Find Changes Who We Become by Peter Morville
- Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
- Responsive Environments: Architecture, Art and Design by Lucy Bullivant
- T Zero (Harbrace Paperbound Library) by Italo Calvino
