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On my blogs: Children’s Book Week

Posted on May 14, 2010 | 1 Comment

This past week was Children’s Book Week. I celebrated on my books blog by sharing several great children’s books websites and the list of children’s books that most inspired me.

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On my other blogs: Good books to read aloud

Posted on May 1, 2010 | 1 Comment

If you have very young children, or know someone who is in that unfortunate position, you might want to check out my list of good books to read aloud to very young children, on my books blog. I suggest some books you won’t mind reading over and over, and I sure could use some additional suggestions from you guys.

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Good reads on my other blogs: March 2010 edition

Posted on April 5, 2010 | Leave a comment

Here’s what’s popular on my other blogs for the past month.

Over on my cooking blog, readers seem to be interested in learning how to reheat foods without a microwave. I gave up my microwave and highly recommend it. Oh, the freedom! And the counter space!

With the Large Hadron Collider back in the news, folks have been checking out my Large Hadron Collider reading list and associated links on my books blog. Also handy for Flashforward fans, if there are any.

The Large Hadron Collider doesn’t seem like it will destroy the world (yet), but if that kind of thing interests you, check out artists’ conceptions of major cities after the apocalypse on my empty earth blog.

Around this here blog, readers are digging my Google Buzz tips. I explain how to post privately on Buzz and how to address your posts to specific people so they will appear in their Gmail inboxes.

Finally, the strangest search term bringing someone to my blogs was “dinosaurs nose.” Feel free to adopt that as your band name. And you’re welcome.

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On my other blogs: Stephen King & comics…

Posted on March 21, 2010 | Leave a comment

On my books blog this past week, I posted a little summary of Stephen King’s foray into comics. A second career for one of the most successful writers around? Go check it out, if you like.

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Thoughts on publishing & the digital age…

Posted on March 6, 2010 | Leave a comment

I have been following all of the conversations about the future of publishing, particularly with regard to e-books, going on over the past few months with interest. I thought I’d share some of the more interesting conversations I’ve found, as well as some of my still-nascent thoughts on the whole kerfuffle.

I have a bit of an inside view of publishing — 10 years out of date, but it’s not an industry that changes very quickly — and it’s not a positive one. I love books and writers, but publishing, as it exists today, seems like a necessary evil. It is too big, too cumbersome, too costly and too reluctant to change. Their business practices, which didn’t make any sense years ago, seem woefully out of date, wasteful and expensive today. The industry is ready for upstarts with new ideas to come in and turn things upside down.

When the world is changing around you, you either adapt or die. I don’t know what the answer is, but I know someone will come up with it. And that’s likely who we’ll be buying books from in the future.

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Good reads on my blogs: February 2010 edition

Posted on March 1, 2010 | Leave a comment

Here are some of the more popular posts from my blogs in the past month, in case you missed them.

On my book review blog, folks were learning that book abandonment is not a crime.

On my cooking blog, besides the usual suspects, visitors were interested in learning how to make the perfect stir-fry.

Over on my post-apocalypse journal, abandoned mental institutions aroused some interest. They are very creepy photos.

Finally, right here I got a little surge when I posted about whether you should expect privacy from online services. But the top post was my opinion piece on Google Buzz.

Finally, most intriguing search term that brought somebody to one of my blogs goes to: “Will we have found 2 more earths by 2050?” I honestly don’t know, but that would seriously be cool, wouldn’t it? The Kepler mission seems to have the best shot of finding them. The telescope has already spotted 5 exoplanets, but they are more like Jupiters than earths.

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Themed reading lists: Reading about the apocalypse and immortality

Posted on February 22, 2010 | 1 Comment

I have been having fun writing and posting themed reading lists on my book review blog, Books Worth Reading, and they have proved to be popular. Flashlight Worthy Book Recommendations has reprinted a couple of the lists, which I am now sharing with you: These Books Will Help You Survive After an Apocalypse and I Want to Live Forever: An Immortality Reading List

Also see: An Empty Earth: Notes on the apocalypse and The endless quest to live forever

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Good reading on my blogs: January 2010

Posted on February 1, 2010 | Leave a comment

Here’s a taste of what’s popular on my other blogs this month:

On my books blog, folks seems to be enjoying What Now? A Post-apocalyptic Reading List. I guess it’s those winter blues spurring them to read depressing novels about the end of the world (they’re my favorites too!). In fact, several people got to the list after searching for “how to rebuild society after the apocalypse.” I’m glad somebody is thinking ahead.

If you’re interested in the apocalypse, you might want to check out An Empty Earth, which is essentially my research notebook where I mix together a soup of vaguely apocalyptic thoughts, links and other resources. The Ruins of Detroit is a popular example.

Here, you guys seems to be enjoying learning how to give Google Wave invitations and how to create a GTD project list. (Does anybody actually use Google Wave? Because I haven’t found a use for it.) I have posts that are so much more entertaining, but the public likes what it likes, I guess.

I’m skipping my cooking blog, because it’s always the same posts that are popular (their titles are so Google-able).

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Good reads on my other blogs: December ’09 edition

Posted on December 11, 2009 | 1 Comment

Here’s what folks are finding interesting to read on my other blogs this month.

My article on Books that Changed Your Life is still very popular. I don’t know if you’ll find anything life-changing in the post, though. I don’t come to any definitive conclusions.

At my newest blog, which collects my notes on the post-apocalypse, check out Artists’ Conceptions of an Empty Earth. The art is very cool.

At my cooking blog, the usual suspects are at the top. People still want to know how to make lasagna, roasted chicken breasts, sorbet and quick tomato sauce for pasta.

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On my blogs: Picky readers unite!

Posted on August 17, 2009 | Leave a comment

I don’t have anything much to say this morning, so why not head over to my books blog and read my mathematics-based analysis of why you need to be picky about the books you read. And here’s the corollary: book abandonment is not a crime.

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