Les Goodreads Nouvelles Posted September 9th, 2007 by timothy. 0 Comments Good Reads Mailing List | 2007 week 37 number 1 (Mes chère lecteurs) Black must stay in us A readymade installation titled Original Sin(National Post, 2 August 2007)Bonjour.Maybe you’re getting GR through RSS readers and will have already seen this: that I’m going to start updating the website more, rather than continue the process of merely posting what I’ve mailed out. I think I’ll begin to use the email list for weekly or monthly digests and announcements such as this one, but since Goodreads is run using blogging software I might as well use it as a blog. More review-writing perhaps, more frequent posting, and less emailing. That’s the new direction.Also, August 2007 marked the first time I exceeded my allowable bandwidth, resulting in an extra charge to the account. This is entirely because I made the mistake of offering downloadable audio via the podcast. I’m going to keep an eye on this and if it ends up getting out of hand, the podcast feature may come down. In the meantime, donations are always appreciated and you can find a link to do so (via PayPal) on the website as well as the one below. Through PayPal I’ve suggested the extremely reasonable donation of $5, which is less than I paid for my Friday evening pint. If you’d prefer to send an old-fashioned cheque (since I know some of you who do) then email me about it. Goodreads fell into the unfortunate habit of only emailing out the things that got posted on the web, the result being an interlock between email and posting which caused nothing but delays. I’ve decided to begin posting more frequently to break both this deadlock and the accumulation of a back-log. Besides what I’ve already mentioned, there’s also the fact that the last Goodreads I sent got rejected by Hotmail and Yahoo as spam, and well, there’s no real need to preserve a pre-RSS service when there are excellent RSS interfaces out there (myself, I recommend Google Reader) . You may be interested to read my thoughts on ‘The Perils of Bad Writing’ on my blog here, which I just posted. But, as to what I sent out this past week, these are below. Sincerely, Mr. Timothy This past week I posted the following links: On Foreign Memes The Bus Uncle http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Bus_Uncle Drugs I Wait for You! http://englishrussia.com/?p=1369 ***PREVED Bear***** http://community.livejournal.com/ru_preved/ From Metafilter (2006-03-22): “Превед! Russia’s newest internet craze involves a painting called Bear Surprise [NSFW] by New York artist/musician John Lurie. “Преведâ€, or “prevedâ€, is an intentional misspelling of “privetâ€, or “hello†in Russian. There’s a month-old Livejournal community dedicated to the meme and even a branded range of condoms. [Via freewilliamsburg.com]†http://readrussia.com/a_1_2007_4.htm http://www.freewilliamsburg.com/archives/2006/03/post.html The Rich Bitch of August (Via Metafiler) [YouTube Video] ~ Helmsley’s Dog Gets $12 Million in WillLeona Helmsley’s dog will continue to live an opulent life, and then be buried alongside her in a mausoleum. But two of Helmsley’s grandchildren got nothing from the late luxury hotelier and real estate billionaire’s estate. […] On Gore Vidal TRUTH NOW: Interview of Gore Vidal | Linda Sutton http://www.atlanticfreepress.com/content/view/2258/81/ Gore Vidal (1993) | Late Night Live, ABC Radio http://www.abc.net.au/rn/latenightlive/stories/2007/2000408.htm —————————————- Long links made short by using Shorty (http://get-shorty.com) To remove or add yourself to this list, go here http://goodreads.timothycomeau.com
07w36:3 Foreign Memes Posted September 4th, 2007 by timothy. 0 Comments Good Reads Mailing List | 2007 week 36 number 3 (Foreign Memes) The Bus Uncle http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Bus_Uncle Drugs I Wait for You! http://englishrussia.com/?p=1369 Preved Bear http://community.livejournal.com/ru_preved/ From Metafilter (2006-03-22): “Превед! Russia’s newest internet craze involves a painting called Bear Surprise [NSFW] by New York artist/musician John Lurie. “Превед”, or “preved”, is an intentional misspelling of “privet”, or “hello” in Russian. There’s a month-old Livejournal community dedicated to the meme and even a branded range of condoms. [Via freewilliamsburg.com]” http://readrussia.com/a_1_2007_4.htm http://www.freewilliamsburg.com/archives/2006/03/post.html
07w36:2 Rich Bitch Posted September 2nd, 2007 by timothy. 0 Comments Good Reads | 2007 week 36 number 2 (Rich Bitch) (Via Metafiler) ~ Helmsley’s Dog Gets $12 Million in Will The Associated Press Wednesday, August 29, 2007; 8:37 PM NEW YORK — Leona Helmsley’s dog will continue to live an opulent life, and then be buried alongside her in a mausoleum. But two of Helmsley’s grandchildren got nothing from the late luxury hotelier and real estate billionaire’s estate.
07w36:1 Gore Vidal Posted September 2nd, 2007 by timothy. 0 Comments Good Reads Mailing List | 2007 week 36 number 1 (Gore Vidal) Things change. Goodreads as a website will be updated more frequently. I won’t be sending out an email for everything that goes up on the site – the email list might continue as a weekly or monthly digest of updates or I may stop using it entirely, we’ll see. It’s just I’m coming across stuff worthy of posting on a more frequent basis right now and it would be easier for me to post them right away – like any other blogger – than continue on something that began in the pre-RSS days, and when Goodreads was only meant to be an index of article links and not a blog. Also, for the first time ever I exceeded my allowable bandwidth, resulting in an extra charge to the account. This is entirely the fault of offering downloadable audio. Now more than ever I’d appreciate a donation if you’d like to offer one. TRUTH NOW: Interview of Gore Vidal | Linda Sutton http://www.atlanticfreepress.com/content/view/2258/81/ Gore Vidal (1993) | Late Night Live, ABC Radio http://www.abc.net.au/rn/latenightlive/stories/2007/2000408.htm
