Dave Burke : Online Community and Social Business Specialist

I read William Glasser's Positive Addiction in the 80's and was looking forward to re-reading it now that I started running again almost four months ago.  Every runner should read this book at least once.  p.1 Addictions are positive because th... [More]

I'm working through this stack of read [NordicTrack] books piled beside my monitor and came across Seth Godin's The Big Moo, a little book on how to make yourself and your business remarkable.  A worthy addition to anyone's Godin library.  ... [More]

This Running Life by George Sheehan This is my 3rd reading of This Running Life since discovering George Sheehan in the early 1980's.  It's another excellent work from Sheehan on capturing the essential qualities and philosophy of a life in which ru... [More]

I'm going to go out on a limb and say that Keith Ferrazzi's Never Eat Alone : And Other Secrets to Success, One Relationship at a Time is quite possibly a life-changing experience if you were to apply his philosophy of focusing on other people to ensure ... [More]

Naked Conversations by Robert Scoble and Shel Israel is the first book on blogging I read and most likely will be the last.  I felt no compelling need to read any book about blogging, but Scoble has impressed me so much over the last couple of years ... [More]

On WritingStephen KingEverybody's bud and the former Geek Godfather of Beantown, Jason Haley, today posted a very fine review of a book on writing titled "Weinberg on Writing: The Fieldstone Method."  A commenter mentioned William Zinsser's "On Writi... [More]

Blur: the Speed of Change in the Connected Economy.Stan Davis and Christopher MeyerBlur has been sitting on my shelf since the dotcom days when I bought it, but its one of those breezy Pop Business books I typically enjoy while on the Nordic Track.  ... [More]

The Entertainment Economy by Michael J. WolfI wrote a Nordic Track Book Club review of The Experience Economy not long ago.  The Entertainment Economy by Michael J. Wolf was on the next shelf down, so I thought, "What the heck.  I'll read that o... [More]

It's time for another installment of Ray Kurzweil's The Singularity is Near. Part 3 from the Nordic Track Ski Machine.  We're about half-way through the book, if you're curious.  Previous Singularity excerpt posts are located here.Chapter Three... [More]

Ray Kurzweil's The Singularity is Near. Part 2 from the Nordic Track Ski Machine.  Part 1 is located here.Chapter Two: A Theory of Technology Evolutionp.36  Paradigm shifts are major changes in methods and intellectual processes to accomplish t... [More]