an announcement and other things

[toastykitten]

• I'm now a contributing editor to Emily Chang's eHub site, which is a web 2.0 resource. You know how you've been hearing about how great Twitter is and stuff like that? That's her site, except she focuses on those tools and stuff that don't really get covered in BoingBoing. I've found a lot of useful sites through her, and I feel really excited about this. I am very flattered that she chose me to be an editor, especially when some of the others have been working directly in the industry for years and are older than me. The other editors are from all corners of the globe, and it's been really great working with them as well. This doesn't really change anything I write here, but the writing I'm contributing to eHub will be more polished.
• One of my friends asked if I wanted to do a group blog with him. Which I probably will as soon as he gets it up.
• Sicko got reposted on Google Video and is still up, apparently. Mark and I just watched it, and are now thoroughly depressed. Any further commentary will have to be friends-only.
• This Film is Not Yet Rated is also posted on Google Video. Links taken from Fimoculous, which is a great links blog. We were going to watch it this week but we watched Sicko instead.
  
• Found out that Jane magazine is folding, which I have mixed feelings about. It annoyed me to no end, but I couldn't help picking it up on a bad day after work and just flipping through it on the train.

Comments

[toastykitten.livejournal.com]

I would love something like that; unfortunately for whatever reason people seem hellbent on thinking that book people are not movie people are not music people. I did a search on Emily's site and came up with this: http://www.emilychang.com/go/search/results/48c63e6813b0400667c57e5044025955/ - I warn you though I briefly glanced through and it doesn't look like most of the projects have that many users.

I assume you are talking about LibraryThing for books; it's a really good product - they even have an UnRecommender tool - where you plug in say, Harry Potter and it gives you the opposite.

http://www.douban.net/ might be along the lines of what you're looking for - has music and books but not movies.

[toastykitten.livejournal.com]

too bad he's not into designing for the web. he prefers kernel hacking. :P

[toastykitten.livejournal.com]

try here: http://www.emilychang.com/go/ehub/category/