Why I love (and hate) my customized Amazon Feeds
October 13th, 2004The great thing about my customized Amazon feeds (made via On Focus) is that I get upcoming books on the subjects I want delivered into my aggregator (I have 4 of them set up). The bad thing is that I sometimes have to wait 6 months for a book to be published.
Case in point. A book entitled, Maintaining Community in the Information Age : The Importance of Trust, Place and Situated Knowledge just popped onto my screen. A synopsis:
“By exploring the experiences of community activists and organizations working with information and communication technology (ICT) to build communities, this book offers a grounded and informed study of the role ICT plays in people’s lives. The author emphasizes the importance of networks built around trust, shared spaces and local knowledge bases in the formation of significant relationships in contemporary Western societies and in doing so, questions many of the assumptions which inform the rhetorics of the information age.”
Obviously a book that I’m going to read. But, I have to wait until March 2005! Sometimes it’s painful to be on the cutting edge, always waiting for the new thing to arrive. Such a tease.