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Not all of the best business books make it to the best-seller's list. There are gems that have sold a little (and some that have sold a lot more) that never make it to any list... until now. Last week, the Six Pixels of Separation Blog post, Books You Need To Read To Succeed In Business, garnered a bunch of great comments and suggestions for business books you must read to be successful. Plowing through the comments, there were also many people who agreed with the list of books provided or the amazing ones that were mentioned in the comments. It gave pause and inspired me to take another look at my bookshelf for some additional books - some not so obvious ones that have helped shaped business and marketing as we know it. Here are 6 Brilliant Business Books That Are Highly Underrated (in alphabetical order): 1. The Art of Possibility - Transforming Professional and Personal Life by Rosamund Stone Zander and Benjamin Zander. A beautiful book about what shall be in your life if you work at it. Zander was one of the best speakers at the TED conference this past year (you can see his astounding presentation here: TED Talks -Benjamin Zander - Classical music with shining eyes). He is the conductor of the Boston Philharmonic, an amazing speaker, and The Art of Possibility (which he co-wrote with his wife) is more life lessons than business book, but a more powerful weapon when applied to business. 2. Funky Business - Talent Makes Capital Dance by Jonas Ridderstrale and Kjell Nordstrom. The world is changing (don't believe me, take a look at the economy). These two crazy Swedes really spark with new ideas about how business is adapting and how we can all do our best to stay ahead of change or at least embrace it. The books is very well written, quirky and very fast-paced. 3. Never Eat Alone - And Other Secrets to Success, One Relationship at a Time by Keith Ferrazzi and Tahl Raz. Never Eat Alone is all about the soft skills in business: how to make connections and how to keep connections. Networking seems so 1990s, and Ferrazzi really amps up how we can use technology to be much better at making lasting relationships in business. This is a great book and you should grab it if you have ever felt like you could do more to meet more people. 4. Small Pieces Loosely Joined - A Unified Theory of the Web by David Weinberger. Weinberger should have been given a lot more praise and attention for Small Pieces Loosely Joined (instead the focus was on another book he co-authored titled, The Cluetrain Manifesto). Small Pieces Loosely Joined is all about how the Web connects us and is changing us. The book is one part Internet culture, one part philosophy and one part what business needs to know (and embrace) in this ever-changing world. 5. Waiting for Your Cat to Bark? - Persuading Customers When They Ignore Marketing by Bryan Eisenberg, Jeffrey Eisenberg, and Lisa T. Davis. Waiting For Your Cat to Bark is geared more towards the online marketer (or the general Marketer). The Eisenberg brothers (along with Lisa) have created an amazing system for all us to get better at understanding what consumers are looking for online, and how we can help them find it. Waiting For Your Cat To Bark is fun and a highly important read if you work in the Marketing, Advertising or Communications space. 6. Whoever Makes the Most Mistakes Wins by Richard Farson and Ralph Keyes. Whoever Makes The Most Mistakes Wins is a small but important read. Trying things, being different or looking for new opportunities, this book on innovation is awesome. There are tons of quote-worthy content to boot and it doesn't get trapped in the minutia that so many innovation books tend to fall into to. What are your more obscure business books that have changed or shaped the way you operate? Tags: art of possibility benjamin zander best seller bookshelf boston philharmonic bryan eisenberg business book cluetrain manifesto david weinberger economy funky business innovation internet culture jeffrey eisenberg jonas ridderstrale keith ferrazzi kjell nordstrom lisa t davis networking never eat alone online marketing paradox of innovation publishing ralph keyes reading richard farson rosamund stone zander small pieces loosely joined tahl raz ted conference waiting for your cat to bark whoever makes the most mistakes wins

A call to the Love & Radio listener line, and then everything about news. (The second part was originally created by me for the Berkman Center's Media Re:public conference). We want to hear from you! Call (641) 715-3900 ext. 55403 and leave a voicemail.

Indie media mavericks Michael W. Dean and Joseph Matheny interview each other. (Part one of two. Part two will be up on Greylodge and The GSpot in two weeks.)Fri, 11 April 2008 22 min. from CloneTheHomeless.com RSS feed Michael W. Dean and Joseph Matheny chat on the phone and there’s no way these two talkers could interview one or the other. So they rap together, in a concentric hypertextual parenthetical way, TCP over IP, about how to make money by giving away art, where the Internet is headed, changing views on changing protection of intellectual “property”, Joseph Campbell, suing Disney for intellectual property violation, how to self-publish your brilliant books, Tom Jennings, why control of your art is more important than lots of money, how to assemble your own vigilant army of the damned, The Pirate Bay, cease-and-desist letters, the Church of the Subgenius, BoingBoing, the WELL, Creative Commons, sex, cats, art and an incredible amount of more nifty stuff. Part two will cover the coming collapse of the infrastructure of the world, why Catholics are killing the world with overpopulation, and why both of these guys just wanna do the judo master thing and step out of the world’s way, while still running it all from their rural bunkers. Download Clone The Homeless interview with me and Joseph Matheny (part 1 of 2) Share This

Excerpts from Penelope Spheeris' 1981 punk documentary "The Decline of Western Civilization." Mixed martial artist "Travis" explains when it's time to call mom. Adam takes a punch to the face, and Nick Salvatore describes fighting as a creative practice. Produced by Steve McLaughlin & Nick van der Kolk.

We are starting a new tradition. We hope you enjoy it. In this episode of the G-spot: - James Curcio continues his Alterati.com column Post-genre Blues in podcast format, with a rant on genre and excerpts of DJ Food s Raiding the 20th Century and the Rosemary s Baby theme from Fantomas Director s Cut. - Wes Unruh digs up the random and bizarre. This week: Jenkem. It s the shit. (Literally.) -Joseph Matheny resurrects GPod Radio by interviewing Chandra Shukla of Erotox Decodings, chatting about fun, sun and glory days. - Jason Lubyk s electronic noise drone pulsates into the realm of the UFO gods - their indifferent cosmic vastness and the earthbound cargo cults that worship them. Download The G-spot 17 Share This

UbuWeb Featured Resources November 2007 Selected by Christof Migone Christof Migone teaches graduate seminars on sound, silence, performative writing, and failure at Concordia University in Montreal. He co-edited Writing Aloud: The Sonics of Language (Errant Bodies Press, 2001). His first book, la première phrase et le dernier mot (Le Quartanier, 2004) synopsized his library. The second, Tue (Le Quartanier, 2007) obsessed over the second person singular pronoun. His audio, performance, and video work is documented in Sound Voice Perform (Errant Bodies Press, 2005), and Trou (Galerie de l UQAM, 2006). 1. Brion Gysin I Am Machine-poem (1960) 2. Janet Zweig Mind Over Matter 3. Gregory Whitehead Pressures of the Unspeakable 4. R. Henry Nigl Shout Art 5. Sam Taylor Wood, from Stoppage 6. François Dufrêne, Tenu-tenu Crirythme (1958) 7. John Giorno I Don t Need It, I Don t Want It, and You Cheated Me Out of It 8. Georgina Dobson Cupboard Simon The Message 9. Louis-Ferdinand Céline Television Interview (1961) 10. Adrian Piper Here and Now Special Offsite Bonus: Kelly Mark I Really Should (Audio CD) Extra, offsite: Santiago Sierra 11 PEOPLE PAID TO LEARN A PHRASE UbuWeb Featured Resources October 2007 Selected by Joshua Clover Joshua Clover teaches poetry, poetics, film studies and theories of postmodernism at University of California at Davis; his book on The Matrix for the British Film Institute is currently being translated into Russian and Czech. He has been a DJ both on the radio and in clubs; poetry books include The Totality for Kids (California, 2006) and Madonna anno domini (LSU, 1997). All the new thinking is about money; in this is resembles all the old thinking. 1. Guy Debord In Girum Imus Nocte Et Consumimur Igni 2. Guy Debord Howlings Against Sade 3. Yoko Ono Snow Is Falling All The Time 4. Tadanori Yokoo Three Animation Films 5. Susan Sontag The Aesthetics of Silence 6. Gertrude Stein The Making of Americans 7. Xu Cheng 050414 8. Patrizia Vicinelli Seven Poems 9. Shaker Visual Poetry 10. Apollinaiire Le pont Mirabeau Special Offsite Bonus: Marc Lavoine Le pont Mirabeau UbuWeb Featured Resources September 2007 Selected by Juliana Spahr Juliana Spahr was born in Chillicothe, Ohio in 1966. Her most recent book is the Transformation (Atelos P, 2007), other books include This Connection of Everyone with Lungs (U of California P, 2005), Fuck You-Aloha-I Love You (Wesleyan U P, 2001), Everybody s Autonomy: Connective Reading and Collective Identity (U of Alabama P, 2001), and Response (Sun Moon P, 1996). She co-edits the journal Chain with Jena Osman (archive at http://www.temple.edu/chain) and she frequently self-publishes her work (archive at http://epc.buffalo.edu/authors/spahr/, http://people.mills.edu/jspahr/ and http://www2.hawaii.edu/~spahr/). 1. Learn to Say Penis 2. Germaine Dulac La coquille et le clergyman 3. Maya Deren Ritual in Transfigured 4. Carolee Schneeman Fuses 5. Monique Wittig, Les Guérillères 6. Carolee Schneemann, Fuses 7. Janet Zweig Mind Over Matter 8. Caroline Bergvall About Face 9. Barbara Cole, Situation Comedies: Foxy Moron 10. Pierre Coulibeuf and Marina Abramoviç Balkan Baroque BONUS: Emma Hedditch The Making of Her Noise Share This

He’s creepy and he’s kooky, Mysterious and spooky, He’s all together ooky, It’s Milford Connolly! His Garden’s a museum Where people come to see ‘im He really is a scream He’s Milford Connolly! (Neat) (Sweet) (Petite) So get a witches shawl on A broomstick you can crawl on We’re gonna pay a call on Milford Connolly! That’s right kiddies; Uncle Milford from the Garden of Truth has taken out his Indiana Jones hat and excavated one of the most blood curdling tales, ever. The infamous, evil, notorious blook, once thought long lost and forgotten, El Centro! (cue spooky music). Wiggle and squeal as Uncle Milford leads us out of the Garden of Forking Paths into the Garden of Truth, Justice and the American Way! Wallow in this special Samhain (Halloween to you lay people) edition of The G-Spot, Number 16, The Garden of Truth digs up the rotting corpse of El Centro and reanimates it! Bwaaaaahahahahahahahahahahaha!!!!!!!!!!!!!! This is a 2 part audiobook special. Part 2 will run next week. The G-Spot Number 16: Samhain Special- Part 1: Have a listen @ Alterati.com .

In my talk with Micki Krimmel at Pixelodeon (see yesterday's post and 4-minute interview), we also discussed the growing number of people who are exposing themselves on social networks. Micki, who mostly works in social change media, says she thinks of herself in some ways as "an art project." Here's our 3 minute 20 second interview: Watch video in MPEG-4 | Ourmedia page Flash version on Veoh Flash version on Internet Archive

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