kicking this off....

Thanks Nigel!!
Lets see if this gets anywhere!

I think the best way to see all the books in the library is to tag them. I have tagged mine as 'ITCanon'. You can of course use the feeds as well but this will cover only recently added books. If we add to our personal libraries the books we 'vote for' then the group zeitgeist will act like a tag cloud for the group.

Hope this is slightly clearer than mud!

Nigel

Interesting... in the mid-90's we discussed this a lot at work. We where young and enthusiastic, and mostly thought of books that described the era and its history, or something like that - Hackers, Microserfs, Where Wizards Stay up Late I think was the most popular ones.
Personally I also liked Accidental Empires.
But today I would add Cyberselfish by Paulina Borsook and Reload rethinking woman + cyberculture edited by Mary Flanagan and maybe Crypto to the list. (Touchstones doesn't seem to work correctly...)
And probably Code Book as well. And maybe Battle of the Wits? It's hard to draw a straight line, sometimes :-)

As I'm in the UX-business, partly as an interaction designer, I would add books by Alan Cooper, Steven Krug and a few others...

But I imagine you had others in mind? As fewer than 10 books are tagged with ITcanon right now it is impossible to get a return on the tag-search, so that is no help in defining your intentions...