Sunday, March 08, 2009

Weekly Link Round-Up


Once again it's time to share some of the favorite pages I discovered in the past week during my journeys around the internet!

Books in the News
  • Thousands of people rampaged through a warehouse that had been abandoned by an Amazon supplier. Faint-of-heart book lovers may want to give the photos a miss, and I do think this could've been handled in a better way. The article is here.
  • The New York Times had an article about a program referred to as "Read a Book, Get Out of Jail" that I found very interesting.
  • The Guardian had an article about the types of books you need to read in order to impress a date.
  • Funny but very true, this article talks about 5 Things NOT to Do On Your First Day at Paperbackswap.com.
Fun Stuff
Stuff for Your Blog
  • Ever wanted to have a five-star rating code at the bottom of each of your posts? Here's where you can get the widget.
  • Want to learn how to rank highly in search engines? Here's a book on how to do it.
  • Have a Blogger blog and want to add code to your template for all the social bookmarking sites. Here are step-by-step instructions and the code you need. It's what I'm using now, and since it's part of my template, it's stable and doesn't morph into something useless.
Blogs I Just Discovered
Interesting Blog Articles
That's it for this week. I'll see you here again next Sunday!

5 comments:

  1. Oh, I like this feature, Cathy. It's nice to see your weekly link round-up. I'm enjoying Linkaholix. It's kind of fun.

    Lesa Holstine
    http://lesasbookcritiques.blogspot.com

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  2. Wow, thanks for mentioning me! It means something for the bloggers I respect to encourage me like this. =)

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  3. Lesa--it does look like it will be fun!

    Elizabeth--thanks for the compliment. I think that's all any of us need from time to time: just a bit of encouragement!

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  4. I really enjoy these weekly round up of links -- helps me find stuff I might have missed! Definitely want to read the Paperback Swap one -- I probably committed some of the sins! And I always like the blog help post you find. And thanks so much for the shout out! : )

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  5. Jenners--you're welcome! As far as the PBS article goes, I know I committed one of the things mentioned, and it was much worse than what happened to the writer!

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