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\"Studying<\/a>
\nPenguin’s promoting some exploration of the concept of “book” in their
We tell stories<\/em> series<\/a>, where six authors have contributed new works, each of which explores some aspect of on-line story-telling, sometimes quite distinct from more traditional printed books.<\/p>\n

Not all of these are equally successful (I thought the idea of “The 21 steps” was better than the execution). My favorite of these is probably “Hard times”<\/a>, by Matt Mason and Nicholas Felton. It’s a short, but (for me) very effective collection of data points making it clear how much things have changed and are changing, and hinting about what it might all mean down the road. Most of the info was at least somewhat familiar to me, but I love the way the details are brought together into a compact compelling argument — a sort of data poetry.<\/p>\n

From Part VII: “Ideas are travelling faster” (crediting the data to Seth Goodin’s Unleashing the idea virus<\/em>):<\/p>\n

\nThe time required to achieve Ten Million Users:<\/p>\n