Collaborative discussions at an unconference


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recommends the following:
 Four Thousand Weeks - Oliver Burkeman
. Podkin One-Ear - Kieran Larwood. 
Lord of the Rings - J R R Tolkien. 
The People - Sleina Todd
. Red Mars - Kim Stanley Robinson. 
Pragmatic Programmer - David Thomas. 
We are Legion (We are Bob) - Dennis Taylor. 
The Entire Discworld - Terry Pratchett
. The Empire of Normality - Robert Chapman. 
Children of Time - Adrian Tchaikovsky
. The Dispossessed - Ursula Le Guin. 
The Three Body Problem - Cixin Liu
. Fall or Dodge in Hell - Neal Stephenson
. Git Commit Murder - Michael Warren Lucas. 
Snowcrash - Neal Stephenson
. Tomorrow + Tommorow + Tomorrow - Gabrielle Zevin
. There is no Anti-memetics Division
. The Fifth Season - N.K. Jemisin
. The Brentford Trilogy - Robert Rankin
. Fight Club - Chuck Palahnuik
. Digital Korea - Tom Ahunen.

Unconferences are brilliant. Rather than a set agenda, people come up with their own sessions. A dozen Post-It® Notes are slapped on a wall, everyone writes down what they want to talk about, they're slotted into a grid, and - BAM! - you've got yourself an unconference. At the recent OggCamp there were a number of brilliant spontaneous talks. But nearly all of them involved one person standing at the front, delivering a message to an audience. That's fine. But there are other forms of …

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