What Google Plus should be used for
Google Plus is for sharing what you read. Facebook is for sharing about your life. We all have some friends who share waaaay too many …
How we discover
Searching and discovery, for searchers
A library with no books
The Library of the future is coming and it has no books! San Antonio has plans for a bookless library. The rendering is quite curious. …
What happened to Amazon’s book rankings by city?
Do you remember when Amazon used to rank books by their popularity in various cities? I enjoyed seeing which books were topselling in Chicago. Or …
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Keeping track of how you discovered books
Goodreads has a poll asking about where you heard about the previous book you read. Here are the results: I voted for “blog post” because …
Browsing through eBooks vs. real books
The vast selection of used books in the basement of After-words bookstore makes me appreciate being able to discover books. But it also makes me …
Metadata for Olympic video
NBC is proclaiming their increased viewership is due to offering so much live video online. While that’s cool, let’s take that a step further. I …
What’s that book about?
When I scroll through the book titles on my Goodreads.com friend feed, sometimes I wonder, “what’s that book about?” I consider asking the person who …
Bookstore of the future
What could the bookstore of the future look like? Bethanne Patrick, Executive Editor of Book Riot, asked this question on her blog post, “The Bookstore …
Is Google replacing our brains?
Mashable had a fun infographic that talks about how Google is replacing our brains. I would argue that Google is replacing our parts of our …