GoodReads is a fairly excellent social networking site, as far as social networking sites go. It’s much closer to hanging out in an actual bookstore than visiting an online bookstore like Amazon, so that’s nice.
But it has the same faults as any other social network:
How can Twilight be both one of the “Best Books [...]
This is a few days old, but I was too busy linking to old British sketch shows last week to talk about it then. Justin Webb, the BBC’s North America editor, is arguing that Sarah Palin getting elected might not be as utterly disastrous for the entire world as most people think. He [...]
As a voracious reader and academic-in-the-making, I cannot help but be a bit of a Luddite in some instances. One thing that I tend to be very defensive about is the future for that object known as “the book.” The internet is great. You have navigated its wiles and have ended up here, reading this [...]
At risk of merely propagating other’s ideas instead of making novel contributions to the blogosphere, I recommend everyone reading this short piece from Paul Krugman regarding his disillusionment with the Obama campaign.
A new blog on science/evidence based medicine caught my eye. It is written mostly, if not completely, by practicing doctors – most of them seem to be academic researchers. They plan to have a daily entry reviewing the evidence for some medical topic or debunking a medical modality that is not supported by [...]