All Consuming
Posted 11/02/2003 under
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I have to thank Jill Walker for this link from her theorising weblogs page. This is a truly fascinating concept, particularly for a bookophile like myself, that has been contrived by Erik Benson. I am confident that it will assist me to keep current with weblogging discussions of books.
Open ‘more’ to read what allconsuming has to say about the concept…..
This page is the result of several different processes. Inspired by Book Watch, I created a script that visits newly updated weblogs hourly via Weblogs.com (if you’d like to let me know that there are books on your page, use weblogs.com’s ping form). The script then looks for links to Amazon.com items and saves them. I then aggregate all that information together to find the most frequently mentioned books. My scoring mechanism is weighted to favor recently mentioned books, so that the list remains fresh, and offers new insight into what the weblog community is reading at the moment.
All product information is stored on my server after being retrieved from Amazon.com. Likewise, information from Google is also saved for a day before being retrieved again.
Sign up to create a list of books you’re currently reading, have read, or plan to read. You can also make a list of your favorite books. Just recently I added instructions on how to include a small snippet of javascript on their site to always feature the books they’re reading.
http://allconsuming.net/