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will love Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. I love this book, but it gets a bit redundant. The article published for the online journal "First Monday" is a shorter version (but not as comprehensive, duh!) http://firstmonday.org/htbin/cgiwrap/... BORING The human side of I.T. This book reports on ethnographic studies about how people use, share, and store information at work. While the book is comprehensive, and discusses interesting concepts like the the office go to person (and what to do when they leave), it is not as engagingly written as many of the books on this list, and as such not as highly rated. no reviews | add a review
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The book didn't grab me, though, and might have worked better as an article. Also (and this isn't really the author's fault, but it did majorly contribute to my opinion) the book was written in 2000 and it's about technology. Most of the points it makes are still relevant, but almost all of its examples were out of kilter with the way things actually work these days. Assumptions about what was going to "stick" that didn't, and so on. It's unfortunate, I guess, since the book was on an interesting subject and didn't really rely on totally up-to-date technology, but tech books just date really quickly and none of the examples seemed quite relevant anymore.
Oh well. If you can get past the dating, I'd say this book was 4 stars. If not, maybe 2 1/2 or 3? (