The year s best writing on tech: a collection as imaginative and compelling as its dynamic subject This book is not just an illuminating and instructive guide to our high-tech frontier. It s also a great testimony to the power of that most ancient of technologies, the written word. Steven Johnson, author of "Everything Bad is Good for You"Together the essays in "The Best of Technology Writing 2007" capture the versatility and verve of technology writing today. Solicited through an open online nominating process, these pieces explore a wide range of intriguing topicsfrom crowdsourcing to the...

The iPod has become a full-blown cultural phenomenon, giving us a new vocabulary (we shuffle our iTunes on our nanos), revolutionizing the way we experience music and radio through the invention of podcasting, opening up new outlets for video, and challenging the traditional music industry as never before. The design itself has become iconic: there is even a shade of white now called iPod White.

Steven Levy has had rare access to everyone at Apple who was involved in creating the iPod -- including Steve Jobs, Apple's charismatic cofounder and CEO, whom he has known for over twenty years....

Rashi, the medieval French rabbi Shlomo Yitzchaki (1040-1105), authored monumental commentaries on the Hebrew Bible and the Babylonian Talmud. With The JPS Rashi Discussion Torah Commentary, his commentary on the Torah - regarded as the most authoritative of all Torah commentaries - is finally accessible to the entire Jewish community.

Written with full cooperation from top management at Google, Levy presents the story behind the most successful and admired technology company of modern time.