August 19, 2005

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First Reviews of Personal, Portable, Pedestrian

After boingboinging our keitai book, Xeni Jardin wrote a review in Wired News How Mobile Phone Conquered Japan. As usual, Xeni does a great job of extracting the highlights of what is interesting and relevant in the work.

We have also been blessed by some great blog coverage:
Joi.
danah boyd
Howard on Smart Mobs
USC Interactive Media Division
textually.org
Savage Minds
Gene Becker
New Mobilities
Peter Brantley
Phillip Jeffrey
Karlin Lillington

Thank you everyone for your warm welcome for the book.

Update: A few more reviews/press

Edutopia
Red Herring
Technology Review
I.D. Magazine

Posted by Mizuko Ito at August 19, 2005 1:05 PM

 
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