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The Best of Technology Writing 2007

Steven Levy, Editor
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The year's best writing on tech: a collection as imaginative and compelling as its dynamic subject

 

"This book is not just an illuminating and instructive guide to our high-tech frontier. It's also a great testimony to the power of that most ancient of technologies, the written word."

—Steven Johnson, author of Everything Bad is Good for You

 

Together the essays in The Best of Technology Writing 2007 capture the versatility and verve of technology writing today. Solicited through an open online nominating process, these pieces explore a wide range of intriguing topics—from "crowdsourcing" to the online habits of urban moms to the digital future of movie production. The Best of Technology Writing 2007 will appeal to anyone who enjoys stellar writing.

 

Steven Levy is a Senior Editor at Newsweek, where he writes the biweekly column "The Technologist." One of the most acclaimed and versatile technology writers in the country, Levy has written six books, including The Perfect Thing (about Apple's iPod) and Hackers, which PC Magazine's readers voted the best sci-tech book written in the last twenty years. He has written for many publications, including the New Yorker, the New York Times Magazine, Rolling Stone, and Wired.

 

Featuring contributions from

 

Kevin Berger

Paul Boutin

Kiera Butler

Joshua Davis

Julian Dibbell

Matt Gaffney

Lori Gottlieb

John Gruber

Jeff Howe

Kevin Kelly

Jaron Lanier

Preston Lerner

Farhad Manjoo

Justin McElroy

Ben McGrath

Katharine Mieszkowski

Emily Nussbaum

Jeffrey M. O'Brien

Larry O'Brien

The Onion

Adam L. Penenberg

John Seabrook

Philip Smith

Aaron Swartz

Clive Thompson

  • Cover
  • Introduction
  • The Artist as Mad Scientist
  • The Rise of Crowdsourcing
  • Mothers Anonymous
  • iTunes to Sell You Your Home Videos for $1.99 Each
  • Scan This Book!
  • A Head for Detail
  • You’re Sooooooooo Predictable Sooooooooo
  • Say Hello to Stanley
  • The Worst Date Ever for an Apple Tech
  • Defend Ironton
  • This Is a Bike. Trust Us
  • Game Master
  • A Berkeley Engineer Searches for the “Truth” about the Twin Towers
  • Listen to This
  • Top 10 Things I’ve Learned about Computers from the Movies and Any Episode of 24 24
  • The Corporate Toll on the Internet
  • Dragon Slayers or Tax Evaders
  • Revenge of the Nerds
  • “I Make $1.45 a Week and I Love It”
  • Good Journalism
  • You Are What You Search
  • A Non-Programmer’s Apology
  • The Ultimate Crossword Smackdown
  • How Do I Love Thee?
  • Digital Maoism: The Hazards of the New Online Collectivism
  • It Should Happen to You
  • About the Contributors
  • Acknowledgments
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Published: 2007
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
License: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International license
ISBN(s)
  • 978-0-472-90054-1 (open access)
  • 978-0-472-03266-2 (paper)
Subject
  • Media Studies:New Media
  • Media Studies:Journalism

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