Best of Technology Writing 2007

By Steven Levy

The year's best writing on tech: a collection as imaginative and compelling as its dynamic subject

"This book is not just an illuminating and instructive guide to our high-tech frontier. It's also a great testimony to the power of that most ancient of technologies, the written word."

--Steven Johnson, author of Everything Bad is Good for You

Together the essays in The Best of Technology Writing 2007 capture the versatility and verve of technology writing today. Solicited through an open online nominating process, these pieces explore a wide range of intriguing topics--from "crowdsourcing" to the online habits of urban moms to the digital future of movie production. The Best of Technology Writing 2007 will appeal to anyone who enjoys stellar writing.

Steven Levy is a Senior Editor at Newsweek, where he writes the biweekly column "The Technologist." One of the most acclaimed and versatile technology writers in the country, Levy has written six books, including The Perfect Thing (about Apple's iPod) and Hackers, which PC Magazine's readers voted the best sci-tech book written in the last twenty years. He has written for many publications, including the New Yorker, the New York Times Magazine, Rolling Stone, and Wired.

Featuring contributions from

Kevin Berger

Paul Boutin

Kiera Butler

Joshua Davis

Julian Dibbell

Matt Gaffney

Lori Gottlieb

John Gruber

Jeff Howe

Kevin Kelly

Jaron Lanier

Preston Lerner

Farhad Manjoo

Justin McElroy

Ben McGrath

Katharine Mieszkowski

Emily Nussbaum

Jeffrey M. O'Brien

Larry O'Brien

The Onion

Adam L. Penenberg

John Seabrook

Philip Smith

Aaron Swartz

Clive Thompson

Jeffrey R. Young

digitalculturebooks is an imprint of the University of Michigan Press and the Scholarly Publishing Office of the University of Michigan Library dedicated to publishing innovative and accessible work exploring new media and their impact on society, culture, and scholarly communication. Visit the website at www.digitalculture.org.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0472032666
• ISBN13: 9780472032662
• Release Date: August 2007
• Publisher: University of Michigan Press
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.8" x 8.6"

Customer Reviews

Excellent collection

This is a great book to carry around on your errands and read whenever you get the chance. It's full of short articles from multiple periodicals, blogs, newspapers, etc. They are all extremely well written, insightful, and relevant to todays technological state of the world (but what less would you expect from a collection of the BEST tech writing of the year). There are stories with meaningful psychological and philosophical implications, such as Aaron Swartz's, "A Non-Programmers Apology" that emphasizes the importance of following your passions for work. The last paragraph left me laughing and crying a bit - it's great. And there are stories that most anyone can enjoy, an example would be "Mothers anonymous" a great profile of [...], a open-posting website for all types of mothers across the work. The juxtaposition of this sort of motherhood advice with old Dr. Spock is hilarious and priceless... I'd highly recommend this book, and I can't wait to read the newer collections.

A Great Collection Of Essays From The Blogosphere

This is a great collection of essays from the blogosphere covering tech topics and some integrating tech into very funny stories. This is written pretty much as the who's who amongst bloggers for 2006-2007. Great bedtime reading.

Great collections of tech essays.

Superb collection of tech essays with some emphasis on the information technology/internet side of things. Nicely touches on the human element (social networking) and the changes that connected computers have brought to this aspect of human behavior. Very funny in parts.