Recommended Reading List

These are the books/articles that I think people who want to get a grasp on "new media," "interactive," and "the internet" should read.

• In the Beginning was the Command Line (1999) - an essay by Neal Stephenson on Operating Systems, Interfaces, and Culture
• The Temporary Autonomous Zone, Ontological Anarchy, Poetic Terrorism (1991) - Hakim Bey's (pseud. Peter Lamborn Wilson) most famous work, a manifesto describing the creation political and most relevant, ontological spaces that evade formal structures of control
• The Cathedral and the Bazaar (1997-) - a set of books and essays about hacking culture and open-source development by ESR. These are by and large well thought out, and quite interesting. See also: Philosophy of the GNU Project
• The Art of Unix Programming (2003) - ESR's newest book about Unix philosophy. Very good distillation of one way of approaching development and design.

  Those who fail to learn from Unix are doomed to repeat it

  See also: Worse is Better

• The Virtual Community (1994, 2000) - classic work describing virtual community
  
• Ted Nelson, Hypertext
  • http://www.digibarn.com/collections/.../computer-lib/
  • http://www.eastgate.com/catalog/LiteraryMachines.html
    
• Englebart, Human Augmentation
• TBL, others on the URL and significance
  
• Lawrence Lessig's books:
  
• • The Future of Ideas
    
  • Code and Other Laws of Cyberspace (v2)
  • Free Culture
• Steven Johnson
• Designing Things, Bruce Sterling
• Ted Nelson
  
• Clay Shirky, book and articles
  • Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations
• The Web That Wasn't http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=72nfrhXroo8
  

Books I'm catching up on:

• Everything is Miscellaneous, David Weinberger
  
• Wealth of Networks, Yochai Benkler