August 2008
3 posts
Amazon Goes Social
From Josh at the Shelfari blog:
It’s an exciting day here at Shelfari. The rain has stopped, the birds are chirping and the biggest news of all – we are being acquired by Amazon.com.
It was only a matter of time until Amazon snapped up one of the bibliophilic social networking sites. Strangely, although Shelfari is probably the slickest service, its more established competitor LibraryThing...
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Reading Space: The Long and the Short of It
Nick Carr’s Is Google Making Us Stupid is still rippling around the web. In it, Carr suggests that jumping around the place and snacking on information is not only inferior to reading longer works, it actually makes us incapable of enjoying them. Hence, Google is making us stupid. Then, some smart folk over at Britannica.com started trading blows. Foremost, Clay Shirky rose up to defend the...