Next up in our series on interesting blogs
is Awful Library Books which is a blog about books that should be removed from the library. I have to say this is a topic I had not thought much about – but it makes a lot of sense – when is it time for books to leave the library.
Awful Libary Books is written by two public librarians and is a really interesting conversation about what should and maybe should not be on library book shelves. I love the idea of using a blog to expand the discussion about library books across libraries.
Awful Library Books is also a nice look at some of the books and cover art from the past.
Blog Name: Awful Library Books
Post Worth a Look: Vans: The Personality Vehicles
On Twitter: @awfullibbooks
With Christmas just 2.5 weeks away it is time to get serious about holiday shopping. What do you get for the people that have everything and ask for nothing? I have been thinking about the photo books for a few months now. I saw one of the Apple Iphoto books over the summer and I was pretty impressed. I am on the email list for MyPublisher and I was about to start there to create a book but I thought I would see who else is out there. Here are some of the websites and reviews that I have found. I hope that this post will not only help you find a photo book printer but also demonstrate how you can use searching and blogs to further research a topic.
Coincidentally the December issue of Ready Made that I was flipping through has a little round up of photo book printers. This issue isn’t online yet but here are the sites they suggest…
But who has the best quality for the price? My first couple of google searches turned up a bunch of reviews from the past few years. PhotobookStory.com has some detailed info but they don’t offer reviews on all of the photo book sites, plus it looks like this site was created a few years ago because they still have a guestbook.
Make-Your-Own-Photobooks.com has lots of info but it looks like it is more about ad revenue than photo book reviews – there is no info about a person behind it and the site name is very generic.
My next thought was to check to see if Lifehacker had any posts on photo books but there were only a few posts that were over 2 years old. This post was recommended by another blog, but it is from 2006 – some of the sites mentioned here don’t even have the same name today. This website has a review does a great job of comparing Lulu, Blurb and MyPublisher with some nice pictures of the print quality. But it is dated December 2007. I know that the technology on this printing changes quite quickly so I wanted to find some posts from this year.
I then found a review for a site called Albelli on the blog Photodoto. While there are some ads on Photodoto, I could tell from the other posts that this blog was one persons opinions (he also has a great about page) – I also liked the catchy name and the tag line “Photography is for everyone.” The review of Albelli was helpful – I learned that no one was happy with their books. But it was the comments section that was the most helpful – I learned about 3 other photo books sites I had not seen before.
Each of these sites were recommended by someone that had already used the site. I then followed up on a few of these. I wanted to see if anyone was comparing Viovio or Colormailer to some of the more popular sites. Continue Reading »
Thus far BlogTelling has focused more on the how of blogging but I also want to use this blog to look at blogging in general.
I just came across this tutorial for a crown of bacon “Pork Princess Tiara“ on the Craft blog – which is one of my favorites to follow – Craft has lots of great posts that are both funny and helpful. I don’t really want to dwell on if this is actually a good tutorial – would you wear a crown of bacon? But this did get me thinking about bacon bloggers. It was a posting about bacon night at the Harris Grill, a local restaurant here in Pittsburgh, which was mentioned in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette (back when blogs were still called web logs), that helped launch the popularity of my blog IheartPGH. It turns out that there are blogs about bacon. Here are 2 blogs that I found – please let me know of any others.
- IheartBacon.com – and of course they have already posted about the Bacon Tiara
- Theories of Bacon – doesn’t get updated often but they have some pretty meaty content.
