Bubble Blog: From Outsider to Insider in Silicon Valley's Web 2.0 Revolution
About this ebook
Dive into the transformative decade that reshaped the internet and our lives with Bubble Blog, a hybrid memoir and internet history by pioneering blogger Richard MacManus. Journey through the early 2000s, a pivotal time that saw the meteoric rise of social media, smartphones, and cloud computing. MacManus chronicles how he founded and grew ReadWriteWeb into one of the world’s top ten blogs, syndicated by The New York Times. His account offers an insider’s view of the Web 2.0 era and the shift from analog to digital.
About the author
Richard MacManus is the founder of technology blog ReadWriteWeb (RWW). Widely read globally, it was ranked among the top ten blogs in the world by Technorati and was syndicated by The New York Times from 2008–2011. As ReadWriteWeb’s founder, he is widely recognized as a leader in articulating what’s next in technology and what it means for society at large.
Bubble Blog, a memoir and Richard’s third book, was serialized during 2023–2024 at Cybercultural, Richard’s website about internet history and its impact on our culture. His science fiction novel, Presence, was published in September 2016. His first book, Trackers: How Technology is helping us Monitor & Improve our Health, was published in December 2014.
Richard is active on social media and you can follow his ongoing thoughts about technology at Mastodon and Bluesky (search for his name on either platform). Richard is a New Zealander now living in the United Kingdom.
