Sunday, July 1, 2007

Notes from a goodreads.com user


Here is my profile. I signed up for daily emails, so I could keep up with which books my friends read. But I was shocked at how much antipathy I felt towards people, whom I genuinely like, when I got the email pictured above. 342 new reviews?!?

If reviewing all the books you read in high school, to up your goodreads.com review count, while simultaneously hating your friends for doing the same, is hypocritical, well...

Seriously though, once we all finish reviewing all the books we've ever read, this will be excellent to keep up with what your friends are reading, and what they thought of the book. Also, if you look up a book, you can see how all your friends rated it, which is nice.

It felt good to link to a prior review in my goodreads profile. That was the first thing I ever wrote on the internet.

My previous experience as a book reviewer has clearly helped me as a goodreads reviewer, as you can see below. No, I didn't game this -

Avg Ranking by my friends (minimum 20 rankings):
me: 3.04 (Nice, average review is near the mean. Owning up to the bad reads in my past.)
Jake: 3.24
Katy: 3.39 (141 reviewed. She's pure evil)
Melissa: 3.49
David: 3.67 (We're getting into love-fest territory over here)
Cathleen: 3.77
Nina: 4.00 (Review Halldor Laxness. That will help you out here)
Julia: 4.00
Tara: 4.30 (!!!!!!!)

Monday, June 25, 2007

Saturday, June 16, 2007

Jotting Randomness

I'm trying out Windows Live Writer to write this post.  It's basically an app like MS Word, but for blog posting.  It works for blogger (duh).

LessonSeek.com is coming...

Tuesday, June 12, 2007

Not Baseball

First, MetsBlog makes the Huffington Post.

Now, they offer a surprisingly good summary/review of the Sopranos finale. He changed his mind after reading other reviews, and re-watching the episode (group-think alert!), and while the nuggets there everyone else probably got from more regular blogs, a lot of it was new to me.