My publishers have loaded up the next two weeks with lots of stops on a book tour. But most of them are at various company headquarters. Here are some of the events that are open to the public:

Raleigh, NC: May 8, 7pm – Quail Ridge Books (3522 Wade Ave, Ridgewood Shopping Center)

San Francisco: May 9, 6-8pm – Bloggers get-together at Brickhouse (3223 Mission St.), sponsored by Dabble and Yahoo Brickhouse (thanks!)

Sunnyvale, CA: May 11, noon 11am OR Noon (time being resolved) – Yahoo, discussion with Bradley Horowitz

Menlo Park, CA : May 15, 7:30pm – Kepler’s Books (1010 El Camino Real)

I’ll also be on the radio, including on “Tech Nation” on KQED, May 15, 2:30-3:30 PDT. And I’m scheduled for a wide variety of other radio interviews as well, so don’t be surprised if you hear me sputtering in your ear while you jog… [Tags: everything_is_miscellaneous]

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I’ve just published a new issue of my (free) newsletter:

May 4 , 2007

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EOM.

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Peter Morville, author of the excellent and enjoyable Ambient Findability, reviews Everything is Miscellaneous. He likes it, but thinks I don’t recognize that “third order,” digital organizational systems are often built on top of “second order” systems. I’m sure he’s right that I over-emphasize the new and scant the existing systems. I do, however, believe in mixed modes and hybrid systems that take advantage of every way of organizing information. Since we no longer have to settle on one, we should have lots. [Tags: peter_morville everything_is_miscellaneous reviews]

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Ethan Zuckerman has posted a review of Everything is Miscellaneous. He thinks reading it is like drinking a mojito: Towards the bottom you always end up with leaves in your teeth. Ok, so maybe that wasn’t the point of his metaphor, but Ethan does a great job explaining what the book is about. [Tags: ethan_zuckerman reviews]

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Karen Schneider, who was one of my favorite librarians even before she reviewed Everything Is Miscellaneous, has posted her review at the American Library Association’s techie site. She says the book is “dangerous.” That’s not an adjective I often (ever?) hear applied to anything I do — I installed a seat-belt on our LazyBoy chair — so I’m just tickled pink. [Tags: everything_is_miscellaneous karen_schneider ]

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While it seems 9% of the Web* is deciding whether or not to publish the now-ineffective (except for disks already published) HD DVD key (with Wikipedia facing an interesting question), John Edwards has stopped using the phrase “global war on terror” because it frames the task improperly. Good for him. There are other ways to fight than through “war,” and the war framing throws off our focus, thus putting us at greater risk. Imo. I believe that every Democratic candidate will make us safer from terrorism than this administration has, because they’ll address our true vulnerabilities and will work towards making the world less hospitable to the growth and maintenance of terrorist organizations. (Edwards is criticized in the story at RawSugar because until recently he did use the phrase, or ones like it. So, he’s learning. OTOH, I am a volunteer to the campaign, so I am biased.)

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Our new local paper, BostonNow, is taking blogs very seriously. See this post for the explanation. The paper is also tagalicious and comment-wild. Could be the start of something good for the city… [Tags: bostonnow media citizen_journalism blogs everything_is_miscellaneous hyperlocal ]

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Cory Doctorow’s review of Everything is Miscellaneous at BoingBoing is like the review I daydream about occasionally (= obsessively), except he explains my book better. Thank you, Cory. [Tags: everything_is_miscellaneous cory_doctorow reviews boingboing ]

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On Thursday, I’m doing a book talk at the NY Public Library Science, Industry and Business Library, 5:30-7pm (188 Madison Ave. at 34th St.). It’s free and open to the public, of course.

See you there? [Tags: everything_is_miscellaneous ]

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