I’m excited about three new Websites that were covered in the Oregonian yesterday and today. One is www.blip.tv. particularly www.thebicyclist.blip.tv. The O gave this a front-page story yesterday, and I have to say the real thing doesn’t measure up so well. It’s a site for filmmakers to post their work, and I’m not sure how it differs so much from YouTube. The bicyclist, though, aims to develop into a series. The first episode is only a few minutes long, but a promising start.
Then, there’s www.BikePortland.org. Portland, by all accounts, is the bikiest town around, despite the rain. I’ve tried to hook up with other electric bike enthusiasts through the Web and found surprisingly little going on out there. BikePortland is described as an “all-things-bicycle” blog, so it should be interesting. One of my intermediate goals is to write a guest column for the O on electric biking, and of course it will be written with my usual seriousness of demeanor and purpose. Also some fart jokes.
Maybe most promising is www.librarything.com . You can catalogue your entire personal library or start with just one book at a time. Enter the book and do a search and you can click on a link that will insert the cover, all the publishing information, and even the ISBN number. You can add a description and a review. Maybe best is that you can link up to others who are reading the same books as you and have a chat.
Remember: Do not offer to meet any underage girls in motel rooms!! You’ll probably be met by police detectives and a Fox news team and find yourself doing twenty years hard time, all because you thought you might want to learn a little more about Little Women.
Librarything is getting lots of good buzz. I’m getting a haircut, but not a buzz.
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