Read the entire Cluetrain Manifesto online for free! This is one I've been meaning to get to for a while and should be great as a weekend read.

It's apparently also soon to be a major motion picture. I am reading David Weinberger's new book, "Everything is Miscellaneous: The Power of the New Digital Disorder" and am enjoying that immensely.

Quoted: markets are conversations. talk is cheap. silence is fatal.

A link to the PDF of the first chapter of Guy Kawasaki's "Art of the Start." I've been hearing good things.

Free audio books by a volunteer reading community. They completed 70 books last month alone! I have no idea of the actual quality.

You can now read the entire "Getting Real" book from the folks at 37signals online for free. This is my favorite book on building webapps.

The 7 lessons of distribution for authors:

Quoted: 1) Obscurity is a far greater threat to authors and creative artists than piracy.
2) Piracy is progressive taxation.
3) Customers want to do the right thing, if they can.
4) Shoplifting is a bigger threat than piracy.
5) File sharing networks don't threaten book, music, or film publishing. They threaten existing publishers.
6) "Free" is eventually replaced by a higher-quality paid service.
7) There's more than one way to do it.

A great essay on why piracy is not harming legitimate sales of books but DRM is...

Quoted: Electronic copyright infringement is something that can only become an "economic epidemic" under certain conditions. Any one of the following:

Quoted: 1) The products they want—electronic texts—are hard to find, and thus valuable.

Quoted: 2) The products they want are high-priced, so there's a fair amount of money to be saved by stealing them.

Quoted: 3) The legal products come with so many added-on nuisances that the illegal version is better to begin with.

Quoted: Those are the three conditions that will create widespread electronic copyright infringement, especially in combination. Why? Because they're the same three general conditions that create all large-scale smuggling enterprises.

This blog post has links to free Creative Commons editions of a new book by Yochai Benkler called "The Wealth of Networks." I've been perusing the pdf and it looks quite interesting.

Quoted: A weblog about pop culture