BOOKS
If you’re looking to keep up-to-speed with all things Web 2.0, then you could do worse than read Clay Shirky’s Here Comes Everybody. Like, say, Wikinomics, it’s replete with information about the power of the internet and mass-collaboration. However, it also pays attention to the problems of the new, social dynamics. Perhaps the key text on all of this.
MUSIC
It’s been out for a month-or-so now, but Muse’s live album Haarp is still a frequent port-of-call on my iPod. Like marmite, the Devonshire three-piece are a love-hate thing – their angsty, bombastic, cosmic-rock just isn’t for everyone. For the initiated, though, this album showcases the energy of their rightly-renowned live shows, as well as Matt Bellamy’s soaring guitar solos.
I’m also enjoying The Age of Understatement by The Last Shadow Puppets, the joint side-project of Alex Turner (The Arctic Monkeys) and Miles Kane (The Rascals).
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