What’s on The Machine’s nightstand?  A big pile o’books, that’s what. Here’s what my brain currently consuming:

• Naked Conversations: How Blogs are Changing the Way Businesses Talk with Customers by Robert Scoble and Shel Israel
• We the Media by Dan Gillmor
• The Long Tail: Why the Future of Business is Selling Less of More by Chris Anderson
• Popular Dissent, Human Agency and Global Politics by Roland Bleiker
• Autonomous Media: Activating Resistance and Dissent by Langlois and Dubois
• Cluetrain Manifesto
• The Search: How Google and Its Rivals Rewrote the Rules of Business and Transformed Our Culture by John Battelle