Fame! I’m gonna live forever
Last night Vicki went to a Library 20×20. That is a group of presentations where the speakers talk to 20 slides – 20 secs per slide. Of all the presentations the one from Ellen Forsyths of the SLNSW stood out – mainly because she featured the Readers in the Mist blog…. (have a look at slide 10). [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Have a larf and take some notes . . .
I’m having to post this to satisfy Sue’s curiosity as I guffaw with laughter. Take a look at this post in Big Al’s Books And Pals blog and then the author and blog reader responses. It gets wilder and funnier the further you go. This is getting a lot of attention in the bloggosphere. And take [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Life in 2010
I’ve mentioned the Awful Library Books blog before. The Awful Library Books blog highlights examples of bad library holdings. “The items featured here are so old, obsolete, awful or just plain stupid that we are horrified that people might be actually checking these items out and depending on the information.” I subscribe to it via [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Shelf analysis
Lie back, relax, let the good doctors at the Book Bench analyze the contents of your bookshelf. The New Yorker has begun a new feature in its Book Bench blog recently. Called the Subconcious Shelf, it invites readers to submit a photograph of their bookshelf, and The New Yorker will tell them what it says [...]
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Having read about it in the Blogger Buzz blog, I’ve just installed Zemanta on my home computer. What’s Zemanta? It’s a program that makes adding pictures, web links and post labels to your blogs easy peasy. Here’s a list of stuff Zemanta does: As you write your blog post, Zemanta opens up next to the [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )In lean times and fat times alike, the public library is the one place where it’s always OK to overindulge
Here’s an article from a newspaper in Cincinnati, USA that’ll boost morale : What libraries are worth to us. The article came to me via Stephen’s Lighthouse. He picked out a couple favourite quotes from the article so I will too: Young and old come together peaceably here, rich and poor, readers of mysteries and [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )A new blog to follow
I was alerted to this in the Fiction-L reader’s advisory list. The Awfullibrarybooks blog is a collection of the worst library holdings. “The items featured here are so old, obsolete, awful or just plain stupid that we are horrified that people might be actually checking these items out and depending on the information. This blog [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Speed reading?
Trawling through my blog feeds this morning I came across this in the (often hilarious) Bookninja blog : Another of my favourite blogs is the People Reading blog, the author of which travels around taking photographs of people reading, mostly in San Francisco. (Sadly there haven’t been any posts there for several weeks and I [...]
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