The Bitch Girls (Free subscription) | 07/16/2008
Today, I spent a little time chatting with the blogosphere's favorite librarian. Our conversation hit many points, but one of the highlights is the fact that she pointed me in the direction of LibraryThing. I'm not convinced I need to sign up and organize our bookshelves the same ...
Bluestalking Reader (Free subscription) | 07/16/2008
Then check this out at LibraryThing. It lists what was on the bookshelves of such famous personages as Sylvia Plath, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Marie Antoinette and many others, going off lists of books sold at auction and other sources. You...
British Blogs (Free subscription) | 07/13/2008
The rise of the book swap website BookMunch and book-based social networking sites like LibraryThing and Shelfari have made me think about changing reading and book owning habits. These sites aren’t just about swapping books or sharing your library with people, they are about social sharing. It seems obvious but the consequences of this could potentially change the way books are marketed and how we...
Later On (Free subscription) | 07/12/2008
Let me simply quote the post: I came across this list. It was interesting, so I thought I’d go through and follow the rules below: These are the top 106 books most often marked “unread” (or the equivalent) by LibraryThing’s users. The rules are: BOLD the books you have read, italicize the books you started but did [...]
the billblog (Free subscription) | 07/12/2008
Here’s what I tagged on del.icio.us between July 11th and July 12th: Thingology (LibraryThing's ideas blog): Build the Open Shelves Classification - 2gether08 | Spirited Away - what next for 2gether - Call for ideas from Steve Moore for all at 2gether08 Freedom to Tinker » Blog Archive » Could Too Much Transparency Lead to Sunburn? - [...]
Joho the Blog (Free subscription) | 07/12/2008
Tim Spalding, founder of the estimable LibraryThing, is calling on us all to create an open shelves classification project to replace Dewey and his pals. LibraryThing is a brilliant implementation of a what a library built on a social network of readers can be, so I'm excited about Tim's new ...
Eoin Purcell's Blog (Free subscription) | 07/10/2008
Eoin Purcell At The Bookseller’s Digitise or Die conference I listened to this guy. I liked some of what he said but felt his site Bookrabbit was a little strange and overly complex and something of a LibraryThing clone. Still it was innovative in trying to sell books at least and that makes what is happening [...]
booktwo.org (Free subscription) | 07/09/2008
Just a quick note to say that, after a long hiatus, one of my favourite pieces of data visualisation is back*: LibraryThing’s Tag Mirror. The Tag Mirror shows what everyone on LT thinks about your books. And what lovely runs of expression! “drama drugs dystopia economics elephants”. “postmodern programming prostitution psychiatry”. Oh my! The data crunching involved [...]
Catalogablog (Free subscription) | 07/08/2008
LibraryThing is building the Open Shelves Classification (OSC), a free, "humble," modern, open-source, crowd-sourced replacement for the Dewey Decimal System. The vision. The Open Shelves Classification should be: Free . Free both to use and to change, with all schedules and assignments in the public domain and easily accessible in bulk format. Nothing other than common consent will keep the project...
Superpatron (Free subscription) | 07/08/2008
Tim Spalding noted a new LibraryThing books API, intended for use for designing widgets for a browser. I haven't dug into it yet, but what I told him is that I'd love to end up with some relatively easy-to-type URL...
Times emit (Free subscription) | 07/07/2008
LibraryThing: Introducing the LibraryThing books API - Biiiig news. Expect some late night and weekend prodding of this. Pixar?s Brad Bird on Fostering Innovation - GigaOM - ?Look, I don't have to do the water through a computer simulation program? I?m perfectly content to film a splash in a swimming pool and just composite the water [...]
LibrarianInBlack (Free subscription) | 07/02/2008
LibraryThing has member home pages. Yep. They're pretty snappy. Set yours up if you're a LT member and haven't done so yet. It's basically a new landing page that users see when they log in, and that other users can...
Beam in on this, will you? (Free subscription) | 06/27/2008
From cork118 : These are the 106 books most often marked as "unread" by LibraryThing's users. Bold the ones you've read, underline the ones you read for school, italicize the ones you started but didn't finish. Add (*) beside the ones you liked and would (or did) read again or recommend. Even if you read them for school in the first place. Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell * Anna Karenina Crime and Punishment...
Softpedia - Latest Mac software (Free subscription) | 06/26/2008
SelectThing - Firefox add-on that allows you to add selected text to LibraryThing.
Sunset Over Slawit (Free subscription) | 06/20/2008
Those of you who still visit your blogs the old-fashioned way (i.e. not just through Google Reader) may have noticed a new addition to my sidebar - 'Random* Books From My Library' . This is a cool little widget that displays five random book covers from the 1000+ titles I've now got listed in my latest online obsession... librarything . This site was brought to my attention by an anonymous commenter...
