The Information Diet: A Case for Conscious Consumption
Format: ebook
ISBN:
9781449321574 (1449321577)
Publish date: December 6th 2011
Publisher: O'Reilly Media
Pages no: 160
Edition language: English
Category:
Non Fiction,
Science,
Technology,
Computers,
Internet,
Business,
Culture,
Self Help,
Education,
Sociology,
Psychology,
Library Science
This is not a bad book. However, the author dwells too much in politics and in promoting his own website (with the same name as the book) to offer more extensive guidelines for a healthy online experience. It sadend me when he said the Microsoft develops the browser used by most of us. Hello, 2003,...
My review is on my blog: http://blog.chadkohalyk.com/post/30855837565/the-information-diet
I picked this book up out of curiosity mostly. I found it somewhat underwhelming. Part of the reason I found it falling short is that, to be honest, a lot of what Johnson preaches is information literacy repackaged. It's what good instruction librarians, and just good librarians in general, have bee...
Not helpful to me. Very jumbled and unfocused, maybe he should have worked on it for longer than 15 minutes at a time.