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All Bookish Social Networks Considered
20 Mar 2008
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 ..
Comic Strips and Blog Posts
13 Sep 2007
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 ..
Bookish Social Network Socialization
01 Mar 2007
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 ..
The Lecture Explosion
17 Mar 2006
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, ..
So You Thought Book Blogs Were About Books?
07 Jul 2005
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 ..
