Harper's editor Bill Wasik recounts his 2003 experimenation with flash mobs and later with Internet-based viral culture in And Then There's This, an examination of how nanostories live and die in the blink of an eye. Read more.

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The National Book Foundation is celebrating the 60th year of the National Book Awards by blogging one National Book Award winning Fiction winner each day at www.nbafictionblog.org

The blog began on July 7 with 1950 NBA winner, Nelson Algren's The Man With the Golden Arm and will finish on September 21 with Peter Matthiessen's Shadow Country, winner of the 2008 Award.

The blog will last 77 days, honoring each of the 77 winners of the fiction award until September 21, when members of the public will have the opportunity to help select The Best of the National Book Awards Fiction and win two tickets to the 2009 National Book Awards. Read more.

Today, Wired editor Chris Anderson put his money where his mouth is by sharing his new book Free: The Past and Future of a Radical Price, in which he posits the value of free content in the 21st Century business model, on the document sharing website Scribd.com.

This from the Scribd.com blog: Scribd Lanches “Liberate the Written Word” Month — Chris Anderson’s new book “FREE” available (for free and in full) exclusively on Scribd!

Red and Me is the story of Celtic's all-star Bill Russell and his close relationship with the Celtic's legendary coach Red Auerbach. Could there have been two more unlikely friends, a short, abrasive Jew from Brooklyn and a tall, gangly black man from the South? These were two different "tribes," to use Russell's term, which would seem to be on a collision course. Read more.

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