thanks to the always enjoyable
Library Stories blog from Adri
Edwards-Johnson, I learned about this amazing experiment in social software,
relying on blogs, amazon.com, and SHEER GENIUS:
http://www.allconsuming.net/
All Consuming is a website that visits recently updated
weblogs every hour, checking them for links to books on Amazon, Barnes &
Noble, Book Sense, and other book sites. Every book on this site has a list of
all the weblogs that have mentioned it, and every weblog that has mentioned
books in the past also has a page here listing which books it has mentioned.
You can see books most mentioned in the Last Hour, Today,
Yesterday, A Week Ago, A Month Ago, A Year Ago, Most Mentioned Books in 2003 and
Most Mentioned Books in 2002.
this is what computers are GOOD at
(crawling around the web counting things): and we get to enjoy the results.
totally absolutely cool.
posted by Laura Gibbs @ 11:25 PM