Download Squad featured in new book, Blogging Heroes

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Download Squad featured in new book, Blogging Heroes

by Grant Robertson Nov 9th 2007

Download Squad is uber-fortunate, and rather humbled, to be included in the new book Blogging Heroes: Interviews with 30 of the World's Top Bloggers along side some of our own heroes like Boing Boing's Mark Fraudenfelder, Lifehacker's Gina Trapani and The Long Tail's Chris Anderson.

As if that weren't enough, the book's publisher, Wiley, gave us permission to pass out our chapter as if it were free crack, with hope that you'll come back for more. So, while you wait for the book's December 10th release date to pick up your own copy, take a sneak peek inside.

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Tags: Blogging Heroes, BloggingHeroes, Download Squad, DownloadSquad

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

azum5 said 6:23PM on 11-09-2007

congrats guys (and gals).

kingkool68 said 8:06PM on 11-09-2007

I've got an advanced copy on my desk at work. Haven't had time to read it yet. Anyone want it?

Atanas Boev said 6:30PM on 11-10-2007

No Ryan Block??

BehzadK said 6:48AM on 11-11-2007

Congratulations guys. I found downloadsquad about a year ago and now read it everyday. Keep up the good work :-)

Michael A. Banks said 6:07PM on 11-12-2007

Thanks for posting the chapter, Grant! I hope everyone enjoys it.
--Mike Banks

amr said 6:41PM on 1-01-2008

Thnx very alot to this program

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