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June 11, 2004
Books on blogging
Amazon lists many books on blogging. A quick and dumb search at Google -- book blogging site:amazon.com -- returns about 246 hits.
That made me wonder how many books Amazon carries on about diaries. My first attempt to find them -- book diary site:amazon.com -- brings up about 490000 hits, the first page full of which refer to some book called The Black Book: Diary of a Teenage Stud, Vol. I: Girls, Girls, Girls. Hmm... A reviewer observes, "If you liked Angus, Thongs and Full Frontal Snogging then you will enjoy this book." Hmm...
howto diary site:amazon.com? Nothing much. I notice near the bottom that Emacs has a diary mode. (Why not?)
keeping diary site:amazon.com? This brings up The New Diary: How to Use a Journal for Self-Guidance and Expanded Creativity. With all 12 reviewers giving it 5 stars, this book scores higher than perhaps any of those devoted to blogging.
Out of something like 246 authors who've already published books on blogging, how many of them examined a bunch of software? How many of them looked first at what you might do with the content?
Posted by Mark at June 11, 2004 10:14 PM