free download
My recent book, A Blogger’s Manifesto, is now available as a free download from the Internet Archive. Check this out: Erik Ringmar, A Blogger’s Manifesto: Free Speech and Censorship in the Age of the Internet or here in Chinese translation. You can naturally still buy it from Amazon or whatever (the cover is nice, and […]
Skidelsky in the New Statesman
My publisher just emailed to say that The New Statesman is reviewing my Surviving Capitalism. Great stuff! All news is good news. I have made a new web page for the book — click here. If that page attracts attention, perhaps some of it will flow in the direction of this blog too. That’ll be great for when the […]
A Blogger’s Manifesto
My blogging book is coming out today in the UK. Buy it from Amazon. It will appear in the US in December but you can preorder it already now. Do it! The price in the US is $10.19 and in the UK 8.99 pounds. But if you hold off for a few weeks, it’ll be […]
Facebooked
I’m finally learning about Facebook and I’m writing about it in my blogging book. I knew I was out of the loop on this one but I never realized just how out of the loop I was. 85 percent of US college students are on Facebook but it’s a world professors know little about. Some […]
Another brick in the wall
I just finished a draft of another chapter for the blogging book, chapter 5, “Bloggers @ Work”. Here are two sample paragraphs: “In next to all cases the bloggers’ real crime is to have subverted the company’s hierarchy of power. The power of the bosses always depended on their ability to depersonify their underlings, to […]
Chapter 4 – ready to be read
I’m on a roll. Chapter 4 of my blogging book, “Bloggers and the University,” is just finished in a first draft. Well, actually I’ve been working on it for some time already and all I really needed to do during this past week was to wrap it all up. The next chapter, chapter 7 probably, […]
“Watch It Buddy, I’m Blogging This!”
The first chapter of my blogging book is now available in a first, preliminary, draft. 5000 words, about the right size. I’m pretty happy with it. Some thought, a lot of punch. More chapters will follow shortly. “1. Watch It Buddy, Im Blogging This!“ December 26 update: chapter two is now also available online. The […]
I’m blogging her
I’ve finally started working a lot more seriously on my blogging book — I’m Blogging This — the book’s blog is here. I want this book to be done in the next couple of months. Right now I’m snooping around the web looking for people who have gotten themselves into trouble for using their constitutional […]