Ultimate Blogs Masterworks from the Wild Web |
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| Author:
| Boxer, Sarah |
| ISBN: | 978-0-307-27806-7 |
| Publication Date: | Feb 2008 |
| Publisher: | Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
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| Imprint: | Vintage |
| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | USD $14.95USD $14.95 |
Book Description:
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"What are you working on?" "An anthology of blogs." "I didn't know you had a blog." "I don't. It's an anthology of other people's blogs." "How do you find good blogs?" "I read. I surf. I look at blog contests. I follow links. I ask people about the blogs they like." "Is a good blog hard to find?" "Yes. Very."
A Book of Blogs? WTF!! Sarah Boxer, a former
New York Times reporter and critic, travels through...
More Description"What are you working on?"
"An anthology of blogs."
"I didn't know you had a blog."
"I don't. It's an anthology of other people's blogs."
"How do you find good blogs?"
"I read. I surf. I look at blog contests. I follow links. I ask people about the blogs they like."
"Is a good blog hard to find?"
"Yes. Very."
A Book of Blogs? WTF!!
Sarah Boxer, a former New York Times reporter and critic, travels through the blogosphere (more than 80 million blogs - and counting) and finds some masterpieces along the way. Among the bloggers in the anthology are-
two fashion critics mocking the inexplicable "fugliness" of celebrities
a Marine Corps lieutenant stationed in Fallujah in 2006
a 19-year old student in Singapore cheerfully pining for her ex
an illustrator's tiny saga of a rodent and his ball of crap
Odysseus's sidekick telling his side of the Iliad and Odyssey
Revealing and deceptive, grand and niggling, worldly and parochial, these blogs comprise a snapshot of life on the wild, wild Web.