How to do Everything with Podcasting by Shel Holtz and Neville Hobsen
This is a great beginners book on this subject. Have you ever wanted to put your own radio show together? That's basically what podcasting is, making your own radio show for the Internet. This book will walk you through the steps needed to do just that. You'll learn the basics on planning, recording, editing, and releasing that program on the Internet. The authors walk you through hardware and software selection too. This aspect of the book may be somewhat dated but it still has value. They also deal with advertising on your podcast. If you've never had any experience putting radio programs together but you're planning on getting into podcasting, this is one of the books you should add to your library.
Blog Wild! by Andy Wibbels
This book is an excellent quick guide to getting into blogging for your business. If you are thinking about doing it, take a look at this book. For those who know nothing it is an excellent place to start.
Shrouds of Glory by Winston Groom
If you are looking for an interesting and riveting book that will hold your attention from the first page to the last, this is it. It tells the tale of Confederate General John Bell Hood and the Army of Tennessee as they moved North after the Battle of Atlanta to outskirts of Nashville that ended the South's last great offensive. Groom tells the tale with energy and excitement that turns this mixture of eyewitness accounts, journal entries, and military documents into a barn burner you won't want to put down. This book gets my whole hearted recommendation.
Search Engine Visibility by Shari Thurow
I read this again recently to determine how much better the new edition was that the first. While I wasn't overly impressed with it being better, this title, no matter the edition, is still one of the best titles out there on this topic. It's too bad that not enough people who call themselves Web designers and developers take the time to read this book. It's also a shame that people at Microsoft, Adobe, and the other IDE development companies don't spend enough time reading it. This is a book that we, designers and developers, all should have in our library and read every couple of months to remind ourselves of how a site should be put together, not just for findability but for useability also. The only downside of the whole book is that it plays best to the worst users of the Internet, advertisers and hucksters. Oh well, buy the book anyway.
