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Friday Fun Link – Best of Bookstore Bingo: 13 Most Ridiculous Things Overheard in Bookstores (July 23, 2010)

Bookstore Bingo is apparently a new trend on Twitter where people post some of the silliest things they overhear at bookstores (and libraries?)  HuffPost has collected some of the best ones.

Posted 23 July 2010 § Internet § List § Main Page § Meme § PopCulture ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged:

Friday Fun Link – IWriteLike.me (July 15, 2010)

A new site called IWriteLike.Me claims to analyse your writing and tell you which author's style you most resemble.  I tried it with a couple recent blog posts and got Dan Brown (great! ).  On the other hand, when I copied in the recent article I wrote for real money and with a bit of […]

Posted 17 July 2010 § FridayFunLink § Main Page § PopCulture ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged:

A Few (More) Random Book Lists

Most Anticipated Books of Summer & Fall 2010 What's A Great Book For Somebody Trying To Figure Out What To Do With Their Life?Please Recommend History/Science Books Similar to “Cosmos” or “Guns, Germs and Steel”Books That Will Induce A Mind Fuck

Posted 09 July 2010 § List § Main Page § PopCulture ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged:

FIMS Student Explores Bibliotherapy with children living with HIV/AIDS in South Africa

[Edit: It helps if I actually remember to put a link to the story I'm highlighting in the body of a post.]

Posted 08 July 2010 § Library § Main Page § PopCulture ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged:

Amazon Releases Info on Most Highlighted Kindle Books and Passages

How many times have you been reading a book, come across a great quote and then, unless you're really anal diligent and somehow transcribed it, ended up forgetting all about it?  I've always thought that the tipping point for e-books would be something that easily allowed you to track these quotes as you came across […]

Posted 05 May 2010 § Internet § Main Page § PopCulture ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged:

Why Men Don't Read: How Publishing Is Alienating Half the Population

Here's a good article poking holes in the fallacy that only women read.  It's actually a bit of a chicken and the egg thing – do only women read because publishers only produce books targeted at women because those are the ones that have been the most successful in the past?    This is probably true […]

Posted 29 April 2010 § Library § Main Page § PopCulture ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged:

The Crowdsourced Library?

I recently gave kudos to the book “Crowdsourcing” which I'd just finished reading.  You know a book's a good one when you're still thinking about it a few days later and you know it's a great one when you keep thinking of ways its lessons might apply in your everyday life beyond that.  Very briefly, […]

Posted 28 April 2010 § Library § Main Page § PopCulture § Work ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged:

50 Best Book People to Follow on Twitter

Can you write a novel in 140 characters?  I bet these folks could!

Posted 14 April 2010 § Internet § List § Main Page § PopCulture ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged:

The Future of Publishing

Make sure you watch to the end…

Posted 19 March 2010 § Internet § Main Page § PopCulture § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: ,

FTRW 2010 – Hitler and the Public Domain

German copyright law grants an author copyright for 70 years after their death.  Hitler died in 1945 so that means “Mein Kampf” will enter the public domain in that country in 2015.  Or will it?    There is a well-known German law banning the dissemination of Nazi ideologies which was put in place after the […]

Posted 24 February 2010 § Censorship § Main Page § PopCulture ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: ,