Here are some quotes from
the interview Phil Windley conducted with me about
Bricklin on Technology:
Early in the interview he said (at 3:18) "If any of the listeners have any hesitancy about a blog that got turned into a book, don't have it about this one because this one, actually, I found to be fascinating."
When I asked "Did it work for you guys?" (34:30) Phil answered, "Yeah. It did. When I saw what you've done, I thought, you know, if I really wanted to put my blog into a book, this is a good model . . . I think the biggest surprise for me was just the way you had taken material, spread out across time, brought it together into topics and written around it to give it context, and then you set the blog posts off separately with this kind of dotted line format around it -- that made it all work for me. I said, OK, I see how this could work now." Phil's friend Scott Lemon said, "When I first saw the book and how large it was I was thinking, oh my gosh, that's a ton to read, but what's fascinating, like Phil said, is that once I got in and started reading it actually flows well."
After going to so much trouble to figure out how I wanted to turn my blog into a book (as I wrote in "
Turning My Blog Into A Book") it was great to hear that they felt I was successful.
I also tried to make the book accessible to non-techies. Phil said (22:38) "It's very readable, I think, as what you might call a popular technology book intended for a lay audience," and Scott added, "It turned out very good that way."
Scott Kirsner (author, writer for the Boston Globe, and host of various conferences, and a different Scott than on the podcast)
tweeted this upon receiving his copy of the book: "@DanB's new book 'Bricklin on Technology' is like downloading a few gigs of Dan directly to your cerebral cortex Thanks, Dan!"