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Wednesday, February 6, 2008

Big Green Purse

February's issue of MORE magazine had a page called "Women of the Blogosphere" and wouldn't you know, one of the blogs has just been turned into a blook! The book is Big Green Purse from the blog Diane's Big Green Purse run by Diane MacEachern. According to MORE, MacEachern is getting 3,500 hits a month. She also maintains a companion site, "The World Women Want."

I regret that I haven't been able to find out anything about how the book was put together since the blog doesn't appear to be searachable. I did send her an email, though :-) so we may hear from MacEachern. Wonder if she knows about the Blooker competition coming up?

Tuesday, January 29, 2008

Andrew Keen's Cult of the Amateur

Publishers Marketplace announced the following deal on 28 April, 2006:

Digital media critic and tech-industry veteran Andrew Keen's THE GREAT SEDUCTION: Silicon Valley's Assault on Our Culture and Values, expanding on ideas from his blog (www.thegreatseduction.com) and recent piece for The Weekly Standard criticizing the ideology and cultural consequences of the Web 2.0 movement, to Roger Scholl at Currency/Doubleday, in a pre-empt, by Stephen Hanselman at LevelFiveMedia [literary agency].
I discovered at Amazon, that the working title had been transformed into The Cult of the Amateur: How Today's Internet Is Killing Our Culture and Assaulting Our Economy. I also learned that it had been published in the UK by Nicholas Brealey Publishing.

Normally I would spend my time trying to establish the relationship between the blog and blook and see if I could pull together snippets from the blog and elsewhere to determine how the blook was fashioned. Unfortunately I couldn't find a search function on Keen's blog. [And to tell the truth, my recent illness has left me too tired to care much :-(] I did want to point out that Nicholas Brealey looks like fertile ground for ferreting blooks. After all, where there's one, there just might be another! The first title I'm going to check into is Don't Tell Mum I Work on the Rigs (She Thinks I'm a Piano Player in a Whorehouse)
by Paul Carter.