A bookish idea for Weblogs at Harvard Law
I have been thinking about this for a couple of months now, but yesterday, after reading Nate’s post on The Life of Pi, I thought that I should try to articulate this idea on my blog. Until very recently, I had a link to (and javascript plugin for) All Consuming. All Consuming watches weblogs across the Internet for links to books on Amazon and other online bookstores. It then aggregates these links so that visitors or RSS subscribers can see what books other bloggers are reading and discussing. This was based on the model established by another blog, Bookwatch.I would love to a smaller version of this for Weblogs at Harvard Law or for Boston-area weblogs, more broadly. Harvard bloggers, it seems, are a very well read group of people, and it would be nice to see what others are reading (book-wise) without visiting or subscribing to every page. That way Nate could know that I read The Life of Pi in July and had a few words to say about it and the accompanying reading group guide, and I could be alerted to Ryan’s post on his experience of reading the book while he was traveling through south and southeast Asia. Another person looking for general discussion on the book could find all of the different Harvard (or Boston-area) blogger book reviews and perspectives in one place.
I suppose this could also be used to make a most read or most popular books list, as well. I am not that interested in a bestseller-type list, but others may be.
Of course, I do not know the tech-side of this. Does anyone know how to create such a site? Is anyone interested in having a site like this or am I all alone? Please comment.
2 comments September 12th, 2003