Is It a Blog or a Book?

The Institute for the Future of the Book in New York has been using web 2.0 concepts to develop experiments in the “networked book”. To me, these look more like blogs, but it is really an extension of the Wikipedia idea carried into the world of monograph publishing. I’m not sure what I think of this development, exactly, but I can see the potential use for scholarship and instruction. One of the books referrred to in the article is Without Gods: Towards a History of Disbelief by Mithcell Stephens of NYU. I found this interesting, because the book is placed in the context of the recent publication of a new book by Richard Dawkins called The God Delusion, which is the cover story on the latest edition of Time for 13th November.