The Reluctant Egotist

Meanwhile, my book, due out in April, Small Pieces Loosely Joined: A Unified Theory of the Web, has become available for pre-order at Amazon where it currently resides at position #1,956,111, thus edging out such titles as Bryostephane Steereana : A Collection of Bryological Papers Presented to William Campbell Steere on the Occasion of His 80th Birthday (#2,101,446) and Lourdes Gomex-Franca’s El Nino de Guano (#2,107,076), but outranked by the popular Burley Packwood’s Bird turd peppers and other delights. Yeah, well, if I wanted to sell out like that whore Packwood, my book could be #1,467,919, too.

The blurbs have started to come in for my book, but I find I lack the requisite shamelessness. Aw, fuck it. Here’s what Daniel Pink, author of Free Agent Nation, said:

“In the tradition of Marshall McLuhan, David Weinberger has offered a startlingly fresh look at a new medium. But Small Pieces Loosely Joined is more than a work of techno-analysis. At its heart, it is an elegant and ultimately hopeful inquiry into the human condition itself. Once you read this book, you’ll see the web – and yourself – in a whole new light.”

Pink is a really interesting guy, and not just because of the blurb. His book is hugely readable and subtle. You can read why he left his job as speechwriter to Al Gore to become one of this country’s 33,000,000 free agents here.

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