Archive for March, 2007
Top 1000 Library Books
The OCLC has updated their list of the Top 1000 Books owned by libraries around the world, and George Eberhart has compiled some interesting facts about the list. Here’s a sampling:
Top 3 authors - William Shakespeare, Charles Dickens, John Grisham
Total number of authors - 576, not counting the anonymous ones
Total number of [...]
Cory Doctorow on e-Books
Cory Doctorow has a nice piece in Locus magazine concerning e-books and the cliché argument that people don’t like reading on a screen. Actually he points out people do like reading on a screen, and many do it all day long.
I don’t like reading off a computer screen” — it’s a cliché of [...]
How Unique is Your Product? Your Service? Your Company?
Today, Josh Hallet points us to John Moore’s wonderful Brand Autopsy blog, where John has been writing a “would you care” series. His most recent entry concerns Chili’s.
If Chili’s went out of business tomorrow, would any of us care? Does Chili’s provide such a unique product and customer experience that we would be [...]
Wordpress Plugin Directory
Another reason to love Wordpress - a new plugin directory from the folks at wordpress.org.
There is now a central place to find and download WordPress plugins.
You can get a much better idea about plugin quality and compatibility from the site.
In the future you’ll be able to get notification inside of WordPress about plugins you use [...]
Now twittering from my blog posts
As a follow up to yesterday’s post about Twitter, I just installed Alex King’s excellent Twitter Tools plugin for Wordpress.
