Winter is usually a time of the year that I default to evening TV watching. This year I’ve started laying out some plans for avoiding that particular box and incline to agree with Matt Good. Just when I came across the most useful TV guide, ‘What’s On?’ for the iPhone/iPod Touch… oh well. Actually it’s that little box, the, iPod Touch, that set me out looking for content, finding a wealth of written and visual material. Audio and video podcasts, audible books and surprisingly good screen reading of text. Twitter has also turned me on to good sources of material as well, or at least the people I’ve been fortunate enough to connect up with there.
So on to the Free Stuff. Here’s two good bits if you’re, like me, interested in current digital cultural trends and how to approach them for web workers. A free, while it lasts, audio book from audible.com of Seth Godin’s ‘Tribes: We Need You To Lead Us’, thanks to Carman Pirie for tweeting that, and a Radiohead style pay as you like copy of ‘The Pirate’s Dilemma: How Youth Culture Reinvented Capitalism’ by Matt Mason. As Matt points out; “There are millions of books on amazon.com, and on average each will sell around 500 copies a year. The average American is reading just one book a year, and that number is falling.” Thanks to Radio Butt for pointing in the direction of that one.
So read a few books this winter and put yourself above the average American.
