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On today's 40 Second Book Club we discuss the 2013 dystopian novel about social media taken to the extreme --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/salidabooks/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/salidabooks/support
Dave Eggers joins Deborah Treisman to read and discuss "Indianapolis (Highway 74)," by Sam Shepard, from a 2009 issue of the magazine. Eggers is the author of twelve books, including the novels "Heroes of the Frontier," "The Circle," and "The Wild Things." A new novel, "The Parade," will be published in March.
In Episode 1, Rivky and Uri discuss Eitan Gross' article in Times of Israel, Andrew Altman's article in the Forward, and the use of social media. For further reading: http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/modern-orthodoxy-from-a-teenagers-perspective/ http://forward.com/scribe/386754/why-i-chose-to-attend-public-high-school-even-though-im-ultra-orthodox/ https://www.amazon.com/Circle-Dave-Eggers/dp/159413961X
The Marketers Next Door Podcast | A Social Media Marketing Podcast
Marissa and Frank are back from their wedding and diving straight into Snap Spectacles, Facebook's metrics miscalculation, and Twitter's possible upcoming acquisition. Please forward all Spectacles review units and other swag to podcast@marketersnextdoor.com! 😜 Hosts: @MarissaBreton & @FrankRamblings Your browser does not support this audio Download: MP3Subscribe: iTunes / RSS / OvercastSocial: @NextDoorPodcastShow Notes & LinksSnapchat Releases First Hardware Product, Spectacles | WSJOfficial Spectacles WebsiteThe hopes and headaches of Snapchat's glasses | TechCrunchThe Circle by Dave Eggers | AmazonFacebook Overestimated Key Video Metric for Two Years | WSJPost from Facebook's Head of MarketingThe Media Got It Wrong: What Facebook's Video Ads Issue Tells Us About Big Data Metrics | ForbesTwitter may soon get formal bid, suitors said to include Salesforce and Google | CNBC2012: Facebook Buys Instagram for $1 Billion | NYT2014: Facebook Closes $19 Billion WhatsApp Deal | Forbes
The West has spent decades pleading with China to become a responsible stakeholder in the global community, but what happens now that China is starting to take a more proactive role internationally? In today's show, Kaiser Kuo and David Moser are delighted to be joined by a Dutch journalist, Fokke Obbema (the de Volkskrant correspondent with a perfectly normal Dutch name), who is the author of the recent book China and the West: Hope and Fear in the Age of Asia. Recommendations: Fokke Obbema’s China and the West https://www.amazon.com/China-West-Hope-Fear-Asia/dp/178453384X Susan L. Shirk’s China: Fragile Superpower https://www.amazon.com/China-Superpower-Susan-L-Shirk/dp/0195373197 David Moser Yuval Noah Harari’s Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind https://www.amazon.com/Sapiens-Humankind-Yuval-Noah-Harari/dp/0062316095 Fokke Obbema David Eggers’ The Circle https://www.amazon.com/Circle-Dave-Eggers/dp/0345807294 The Social Credit System https://chinacopyrightandmedia.wordpress.com/2014/06/14/planning-outline-for-the-construction-of-a-social-credit-system-2014-2020/ Kaiser Kuo Will and Ariel Durant’s The Story of Civilization Volume Ten: Rousseau and Revolution https://www.amazon.com/Rousseau-Revolution-Story-Civilization-Durant/dp/1567310214
Our annual list of the top 10 books we read this last year--fiction and non-fiction.Listen now: (download)Russ' top non-fiction:Antifragile: Things that Gain from Disorder (A Book Review)To Save Everything, Click Here: The Folly of Technological SolutionismThe Innovators (Book Review Episode)Dataclysm (Episode: The Intersection of Product Design and Big Data with Natasha Irizarry)The Idea FactoryBett's top non-fiction:The Phoenix ProjectScrum: The Art of Doing Twice the Work in Half the TimeThe Glass CageTo Save Everything, Click Here: The Folly of Technological SolutionismSeneca: Letters from a StoicRuss' top fictionThe Martian: A NovelDaemonCat's Cradle: A NovelWhite NoiseThe CircleBett's top fictionThe Martian: A NovelThe CircleHyperionAndroid's DreamDaemon