About the Book:
Follow for Now: Interviews with Friends and Heroes is an anthology of forty-three interviews with minds of all kinds. Disinformation named it "among the most important books published in 2007," and Erik Davis called it "a crisp and substantial remix of the major memes of the last decade or so."
Spanning over seven years, Follow for Now includes interviews with such luminaries as Bruce Sterling, Douglas Rushkoff, Philip K. Dick, Aesop Rock, Howard Bloom, David X. Cohen, Richard Saul Wurman, N. Katherine Hayles, Manuel De Landa, Shepard Fairey, Steven Johnson, Geert Lovink, Brenda Laurel, and many, many more -- and interviews by John Brockman, Erik Davis, DJ Spooky, and Mark Dery, among others (click here for the full Table of Contents)... Read more
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Follow for Now in the Troy University Dothan Library
Right between books called Scrutiny and The Great Ideas Today, here’s Follow for Now chillin’ on the shelf in the Troy University library, Dothan branch.
No commentsFollow for Now Available at the University of Texas Library
For my fellow University of Texas at Austin students who have yet to get a copy, Follow for Now is now available in the library. Check it out.

As always, it’s still available at Powell’s, Amazon, on The Kindle, Google Books, Skylight Books, MonkeyWrench, Last Gasp, and at on this very site.
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My friend and colleague Mike Schandorf required Follow for Now for his Writing for New Media class this semester at the University of Illinois at Chicago. He snapped this shot of the stack of copies in their bookstore. I’m stoked.
Many thanks, Schandorf. See you soonly.
No commentsFollow for Now on Google Books
Now you can get Follow for Now for your Sony Reader (or other non-Kindle eBook device) via Google Books. Their format allows you to read books on the screen of your choice.
Of course, it’s also still available for Amazon’s Kindle and, if you prefer, Read more
No commentsHEX Records on Follow for Now
My tireless publicist, Jessie Duquette, found another review of Follow for Now today. It’s on HEX Records’ website, and it goes like this: Read more
No commentsFollow for Now Review on 410 Media
David Baker over at 410 Media just posted a nice review of Follow for Now. Read more
No commentsFollow for Now on the Kindle
For the early adopters out there, Follow for Now is now available on Amazon’s digital reader, The Kindle. Now you can get all forty-three interviews, all the pictures, all the goodness, in Amazon’s digital format.
The interviews in this book are bite-size and in-depth by design, so the portability of The Kindle fits its style. The Kindle now sports sixteen shades of gray for clean, clear text and crisper images, and it’s really small and portable. You can check out sample interviews from the book before you decide, but if you’re super impatient, you can get your interview fix in less than a minute.
Follow for Now started off as a digital creation, so maybe this format is its proper home.
Anyway, if you’ve made the jump from atoms to bits with your books, now you can add Follow for Now to your collection.
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No commentsFollow for Now at Half-Price Books
This raggedy used copy of Follow for Now was spotted at Half-Price Books here in Austin, appropriately placed next to a Marshall McLuhan book.

Razorcake hates Follow for Now
Before you start thinking that everyone loves Follow for Now (they don’t), check out Keith Rosson’s review on Razorcake. Here’s an excerpt:
There’s just not much interesting material being covered, even in the music and literature sections, which I feel a lot more comfortable with than, say, the science section. Like when Christopher interviews Milemarker—and time has still not proven to me that they were anything but a pretty boring band made up of some decent writers—and in lieu of trying to make Al Burian squirm a bit or trying to bring a bit of life to a band that’s always been celebrated for its coldness, he asks them “whom they read and respect.” Honestly, man—I couldn’t give a flying shit how some space-rock band has been using their library cards.
In contrast — and though he means it pejoratively — he nails it when he says, “Follow for Now unfortunately seems more interested in the ideas being presented regarding technology, media, literature, etc. than the interviews themselves.” Well, yeah!
Anyway, Rosson may have missed the point of the book, but I appreciate the attention as always.
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Follow for Now is Dan Janal’s Cool Book of the Day today. Dan Janal runs the public relations firm PR Leads, among other things, and I am stoked to have Follow for Now on his book review site.
Many thanks to Dan and his staff over there.
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