I finished Small Pieces Loosely Joined: A Unified Theory of the Web [amazon], [allconsuming], [official site] tonight. I don’t know how to review the book, the quality wasn’t at all like Emergence or The Future of Ideas, I guess it’s a different kind of book though, not as academic. Emergence reads like a well researched, factual, essay as evidenced by the small print and lengthy bibiolography. Small Pieces Loosely Joined reads like marketing prose, commenting on philosophy, society, and even sometimes religion, using larger print and pointing mainly at websites, rather than other books. Give it a glance at a local bookstore sometime before you buy it, you might find that reading the dustcover is all you need to read. Interestingly, this book was number 2 on the list of Top 100 Most Frequently Mentioned Books of 2002.