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May Readers' Choice Award

by Kim on May 12, 2009 · 6 comments

Voting for what book I should read in May was close. But, Scott McCloud’s Understanding Comics was the winner, so that’s the book I will definitely be reading in May. Like last month, I’m going to do the review based on reader questions. Here’s a short summary via Wikipedia if you don’t know anything about [...]

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Happy One Year Blogoversary!

by Kim on May 10, 2009 · 33 comments

Hooray! Today is my one year blogoversary! I wrote my Welcome Post for this blog on May 10, 2008, about a week before my college graduation, which doesn’t seem like it was a full year ago. In one year, I’ve written 254 posts. I’ve read 77 books, but not written quite that many reviews. I’ve [...]

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When I think about why I love blogging, the first reason that comes to mind is the relationships I’ve built with other bloggers. So I think now is a good time to spread our blog improvement a little bit and try to help each other out. Week 9 for the Blog Improvement Project is to [...]

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Thanks to everyone who submitted posts for the Social Media Carnival last week — I learned a ton from reading the posts, and I hope everyone else did too. Week 6 for the Blog Improvement Project (a long three weeks) is going to be pretty simple, trying out a new social media tool.  While I [...]

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March is Social Media Month for the Blog Improvement Project, and the first task is to write about how you use a social media tool to improve your blog. I thought about writing on a bunch of different things, but finally decided to write about Delicious because it is one of the only tools I [...]

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Weekly Geeks #27: Remembering Dewey

by Kim on December 3, 2008 · 0 comments

Since we all learned about Dewey from The Hidden Side of a Leaf passing away, there has been a huge mobilization from book bloggers trying to figure out how to honor her memory and keep all her activities going.  Becky from Becky’s Book Reviews suggested a Weekly Geek remembering Dewey, so that’s what I’m doing. [...]

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