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1. Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations
From New York University professor Clay Shirky and famous internet social-phenomena observateur.

2. Microtrends: The Small Forces Behind Tomorrow’s Big Changes
From “Soccer Moms” to “Late-Breaking Gays” Mark Penn studies America’s ever-splintering societal subsets.

3. Against the Machine: Being Human in the Age of the Electronic Mob
Critic Lee Siegel argues that the Internet is confusing “self-expression with art.”

4. Once You’re Lucky, Twice You’re Good: The Rebirth of Silicon Valley and the Rise of Web 2.0
Sarah Lacy of BusinessWeek, most famous for her controversary interview with Zuckerberg, explores the lives of the young moguls behind Digg and Facebook.

5. Rupert Murdoch’s China Adventures: How the Worlds Most Powerful Media Mogul Lost a Fortune and Found a Wife
Bruce Dover, Rupert Murdoch’s former front man in China, describes the media titan’s efforts to gain business access to the world’s most populous nation.

6. My Start-Up Life: What a (Very) Young CEO Learned on His Journey Through Silicon Valley
At 12, Ben Casnocha started his first company. At 14, he founded a software firm called Comcate. At 17, Inc magazine named him Entrepreneur of the Year.

7. Valley Boy: The Education of Tom Perkins
The memoir by Tom Perkins, the venture capital pioneer and Silicon Valley captain.

8. Ultimate Blogs: Masterworks from the Wild Web (Vintage Original)

9. The Eyes Have It: How to Market in an Age of Divergent Consumers, Media Chaos and Advertising Anarchy
Paid-search expert Kevin Lee explores digital marketing issues.

10. Blogging Heroes: Interviews with 30 of the World’s Top Bloggers
Thirty of the best-known bloggers are asked what makes their sites influential, ground-breaking and singularly successful.