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NPR’s Martha Woodroof interviewed me for a piece on bookish social networks last month and the spot aired on All Things Considered today. Check it out here. Since the interview I’ve been all over LibraryThing. And since LibraryThing started bridging the gap between virtual and real bookish social networks with LibraryThing Local, GoodReads has hooked [...]

Seeing recent book art postings Stumbled Upon has led to two discoveries: 1.) StumbleUpon has grown a hell of a lot since the last time this happened, 2.) There is a small but vocal contingent of people who are morally opposed to book art of any kind when it involves the carving and sculpting of [...]

Illustration Art blogger David Apatoff:
In the course of just 100 intense years, comic art has put on display the personalities of some deeply odd people who have produced truly excellent but Quixotic art—a far higher ratio than would ever surface through art museums.
Why is this? Perhaps the medium combines the privacy for artists to sit [...]

When Ning relaunched with their “Create Your Own Social Network for Anything” tagline, I joked that someone should use Ning to create a social network for social networks. LibraryThing creator Tim Spalding was ahead of the game as usual and went and did exactly that: SocialCatalogers is a social network for people who make or [...]

After I posted this silly pseudo-widget idea, Lauren emailed to say: “Wouldn’t an automated Wikipedia contrails widget be an imposition on your browser history? Scary!”
Maybe, but Slifeshare, which tracks every minute of your online activity in order to find other people doing similar things, is approximately 100 times scarier. Yet isn’t this what all this [...]

The New York Times has a piece on the resurgence of lecture programs in New York City. Lecture attendance at the New York Public Library, KBG Bar, MoMA, the New School (where I actually went to school) and the 92nd Street Y (where I actually go to work) has seriously grown in recent years, and [...]

Maud Newton’s friend Robert Daseler wrote in with a ponderous dispatch on the book-blog phenomenon from the West Coast:
I suppose most book bloggers are bookish people. They wouldn’t blog about books if they didn’t love books, would they? But it would not be hard to imagine a book blogger who hadn’t actually picked up a [...]