Never Threaten to Eat Your Co-Workers: Best of Blogs is a compendium of the best blog entries available on the Internet. Scoured from hundreds of blogs and selected from a panel of blue-ribbon judges, the book compiles the very unique perspectives of many of those that choose to record their everyday lives in public forums. From the comedic to the dramatic to the tragic, the book offers a little bit of everything. Blog assembles 100 of the best blog entries on the Internet into a short, hardback reader.
In the voluminous and often self absorbed blogosphere, where can or should you start reading? This is similar to the pre-Web Usenet newsgroups. In both, it is easy to encounter poorly written or hastily composed screeds. A total waste of your time. But here Graham and Burton come to our rescue. They offer editorial choice. A nice filter. We see well chosen essays that are actually literate and interesting. (More so than my...
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If you already read lots of blogs, this book may be redundant for you. I thought I knew what a blog was (some sort of Web journal logged in occasionally . . . almost like a personal diary), but had never read one. So I thought, well, why not read the best ones? That's what brought me to this book.The authors searched thousands of blogs and submitted the better choices to a panel of three judges who rated each one. The...
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If you're a blogger and enjoy the act of expressing your views and emotions online, you'll enjoy Never Threaten To Eat Your Co-Workers - Best Of Blogs (Apress). This collection of blog entries edited by Alan Graham and Bonnie Burton is a fun look at various blogs and bloggers that range from the well-known to the obscure. On one end you have a few blog entries by Wil Wheaton (Wesley Crusher of Star Trek: TNG fame). On the...
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I enjoyed reading this collection of "some of the best bloggers". Actually, I think it was just some of the best blog entries they could find. Which is not to say they aren't good because I'm saying here I totally enjoyed the reading. Just don't forget there's more out there. After you get this book, don't forget to go to your local internet and browse!
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