In between the projects and mini-projects, I’ve also begun to do some catching up on reading. Carrying around a book everywhere and taking lots of public transportation has helped tremendously in that regard. I started with Shirky’s Here Comes Everybody a few weeks ago, just finished Weinberger’s Everything Is Miscellaneous (that’s been sitting around since his original book tour when he came to Yahoo!) and polished off Cory’s new YA novel Little Brother in a single sitting (what’s so compelling and chilling is the realization that we’re about half-a-step away from a sort of grim-meathookiness. It gave me more of an appreciation of the fiction coming out of the 80s). And I’m now starting Glut.

One thing that’s interesting is that all these books have related/complementary media (podcasts, talks, etc.) attached to them (and all worth the time spent, I’d say, particularly Alex Wright’s Web That Wasn’t presentation). Now, obviously anyone who’s done much spelunking on Wikipedia (lately, I’ve begun doing a bit of random clicking around on Slideshare as well), or you know, random Internet browsing can tell you there’s a lot of “stuff” out there. However, I thought I’d share a list of some of the more useful/structured resources I’ve found (online video, lectures, etc):

• Google Tech Talks
• TED Talks
• Long Now Seminars
• Edge
• Open CourseWare
• MIT OCW
• Stanford OCW
• Dr. Dobb’s TechNetCast
• IT Conversations
• YDN Theater
• iTunesU

This post sort of got kicked off while I was watching this very engaging recent talk (via) that I can’t favorite because YouTube still has a 500-favorite limit (now below 0.6 favs/day):