I mean BookMooch—have you tried it? It’s enough to send a book hoarder past the point of no return. You go and list the books you have that you no longer want and if they’re good ones, you’ll receive email alerts within minutes from people who have those same books on their wishlists and ..
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Google Searching Your Bookshelf
07 Sep 2007
Photo: Flickr user gregw
Back in February, I reviewed all the book-oriented social networks I could find and concluded that what I really wanted was a more personalized version of Google Books. The rich related content with which Google surrounds many books is what makes it so valuable. Compare the book information pages for A ..
Nervous Information Theory
31 Jul 2007
This business of “sensory input” is another old McLuhan theme. He once predicted that the advent of colour television would lead to an increased appetite for spicy foods. Call him a nutcase, but we got our colour television and then suddenly we were all eating Szechuan.
Canadian columnist Philip Marchand’s report on literal-media-observer N. ..
Mahalopedia
06 Jun 2007
Listen to this March 20 CalacanisCast interview with Andrew Lih, author of a forthcoming book (the first, surprisingly) about Wikipedia. Then go check out Mahalo again, Jason Calacanis’s new well-funded “human-powered search” project that currently has the blog world perplexed. Suddenly it becomes clear: Jason’s building his own for-profit mini-Wikipedia lite.
Wikipedia articles are ..
The Big List of Bookish Social Networks
05 Feb 2007
As I mentioned when I discovered Wordie and Coastr, I’ve yet to find a book-oriented social network that’s inspired me to register. And it’s not like there’s any shortage of them. Here’s an alphabetical list of all the players I know of, annotated with deconstructive criticism. The bold-face names are serious contenders.
aNobii: ..
Novelty Social Network Reviews
16 Jan 2007
I’ve been collecting novelty social networks lately because I’ve been tinkering with one of my own. Since I have a passion for both interesting words and fine beer, Wordie and Coastr have received most of my affections.
Wordie is surprisingly fun. Like many people, I heard about this “Flickr for words” last month and thought ..
Sneaky Links
12 Sep 2006
Source: Wikipedia
Dale “The Son of Human Knowledge” Hoiberg went head-to-head with Jimmy “Wikipedia” Wales in an exploitative Wall Street Journal boxing match today. It was a pretty fair fight until Jimmy went below the belt with some some sneaky links.
Mr. Hoiberg: I must point out that Mr. Wales’s inclusion of two links ..
Weblogs: The Stats
29 Apr 2003
Number of new weblogs launched per day, according to Terrence Smith’s report on the NewsHour last night: 2,160
Number of professional journalists with personal weblogs who have recently been forced to stop blogging by their employers, according to Mark Glaser’s latest column: 3
Average American newspaper reporter’s base salary, according to Salary.com, in dollars: ..
