sixty days and counting, stanley kim robinson - Paul Guinnessy

Vernor Vinge's Rainbows End? - Richard Akerman

Here Comes Everybody by Clay Shirky - Jen Dodd

Standage: The Victorian Internet - Greg Wilson

+1 Here Comes Everybody - Richard Akerman

"Wealth of Networks" by Yochai Benkler - Deepak Singh

+1 Rainbows End - Jen Dodd

+1 Wealth of Networks - Hilary

"Here Comes Everybody" by Clay Shirky; anything by Lawrence Lessig; "Wikinomics" by Tapscott and Williams (interesting, but worth skimming some bits), "Crowdsourcing" by Jeff Howe is pretty good, from the journalist who coined the term (Google for the author's website, where it's available in draft); I'm looking forward to Tara Hunt's book about Whuffie, to be released shortly; +1 on the Vinge; +1 on the Benkler; +1 on the Tovey :-). - Michael Nielsen

Willinsky, _The Access Principle_ - D0r0th34

Everything is Miscellaneous by David Weinberger and +1 to Here Comes Everybody - John Dupuis

The Future of Reputation by Daniel Solove and The Big Switch by Nicholas Carr are both good news/bad news books that are worth reading - John Dupuis

+1 big switch - Deepak Singh

Community by Peter Block - Jen Dodd

Ambient Findability by Peter Morville - John Dupuis

Dreaming in Code by Scott Rosenberg is a terrific book about how hard it is to build good programs, building on Greg Wilson's talk. - John Dupuis

Mancur Olson's 1965 book "The Logic of Collective Action" describes a class of economic problems that (from a modern perspective) includes the question "Why don't scientists adopt web 2.0?" It's fascinating, and well worth taking a look at. - Michael Nielsen

Christine Borgman, "Scholarship in the Digital Age", has an enormous amount of useful detailed information. - Michael Nielsen

+1 Scholarship in the Digital Age, it is very comprehensive on the more political and social aspects, but it doesn't cover the technology aspect much. - Richard Akerman

The Cathedral & the Bazaar: Musings on Linux and Open Source by an Accidental Revolutionary By Eric S. Raymond - Sol Lederman