Web 2.0 may not be evil after all…
Wednesday, March 11th, 2009OK — I have to admit that I’ve long been more than a bit sceptical about social networks and the whole web 2.0 fad. Mainly, I’ve long suspected that there is a direct and inverse relationship between how quick and easy it is to broadcast any old thought that pops into your head and the [...]
Have you ever been ’sheeped’?
Friday, September 12th, 2008OK–advance discalimer–this is not a post about fraternity hazing.
I read Haruki Murakami’s A Wild Sheep Chase a few months ago and the striking images and unsettling moods evoked by this novel have continued coming to mind ever since. Like one of the characters from the novel who develops a strange obsession with sheep, I can’t [...]
Presidential campaigns go graphic
Thursday, July 24th, 2008
OK, I got started on this thread by looking at an interesting post on Book Patrol about John McCain’s reading habits. I did a bit of searching loosely centered around the topic of the presidential candidates and books, and before you know it I had found this on the LA Times blog:
IDW Publishing, a comics [...]
Top three ways to get from Biblio.com to Nigeria
Monday, June 30th, 20081. I didn’t realize it last week, but for me the next few days were going to revolve around Nigeria. Before last week, if someone mentioned Nigeria to me, sadly, the first thing that would pop to mind was usually credit card fraud.
2. With that unhappy association in mind, I was delighted when a [...]
Confessions of a negligent hop farmer
Wednesday, June 18th, 2008The last book I bought on Biblio.com was The Homebrewer’s Garden. This time of year I love nothing better than watching hops grow. I’m convinced that if I had the patience or the time I could actually see the vine moving during peak growth. A healthy plant can grow about a foot [...]
BiblioWorks hires new project coordinator
Wednesday, June 4th, 2008We are delighted to announce that BiblioWorks has hired Matthew Lynn to lead our library projects in Bolivia. Matthew takes over this position from Megan Sherar who has worked for the past three years to build and develop seven community libraries in the impoverished rural region of Chuquisaca. Check out our latest news [...]