Six Million Books / Meet Lindsay Lohan in DC?
Six million books. If we weren't flat-out coding, I'd tell you who put in the six-millionth book and give them a free membership like before. Or maybe a pound of marzipan from Germany.
Going to the National Book Fair tomorrow in Washington, DC? A bunch of Thingamabrarians have organized a meet-up at the Natural History Museum at 2pm. Sounds like great fun. Check out the planning/discussion on Talk.
Abby, Chris and I are sorry we can't be there. Speaking of meet-ups, is anyone going to be at the Frankfurt Book Fair next week? Abby and I are also in Boston presenting at an academic conference on Tuesday; see Thingology.
In MSM news, we were in OK magazine on the same page as Lindsay Lohan*, the Wall Street Journal mentioned us in an article on "lists"** and the Channel 5 News in Boston—Chet and Nat!—did a story on LibraryThing.
*Our Lohan number is now zero. Our Erdos number remains very high. But what of Kevin Bacon? (Should be low. Bacon was in a Muppets movie, and Lohan did a lot of Disney.)
**It was a good but not spotlighted mention. Alas, we didn't get the top box spotlight. Also, I was the source for three of the sites they spotlighted—TrixieTracker, RecipeThing and Squirl. Envious? Me?
Going to the National Book Fair tomorrow in Washington, DC? A bunch of Thingamabrarians have organized a meet-up at the Natural History Museum at 2pm. Sounds like great fun. Check out the planning/discussion on Talk.
Abby, Chris and I are sorry we can't be there. Speaking of meet-ups, is anyone going to be at the Frankfurt Book Fair next week? Abby and I are also in Boston presenting at an academic conference on Tuesday; see Thingology.
In MSM news, we were in OK magazine on the same page as Lindsay Lohan*, the Wall Street Journal mentioned us in an article on "lists"** and the Channel 5 News in Boston—Chet and Nat!—did a story on LibraryThing.*Our Lohan number is now zero. Our Erdos number remains very high. But what of Kevin Bacon? (Should be low. Bacon was in a Muppets movie, and Lohan did a lot of Disney.)
**It was a good but not spotlighted mention. Alas, we didn't get the top box spotlight. Also, I was the source for three of the sites they spotlighted—TrixieTracker, RecipeThing and Squirl. Envious? Me?
posted by Tim at 6:05 PM
10 Comments:
Uh, I actually have a fairly low Bacon number (I've been a movie extra) - I think I'm a "2", but I'd have to check on that, though.
(Pay no attention to "Shirley" there on the right, she's a spaceholder.)
Yes but we love you for it.
Ohhh well, so goes the name&fame game. LibraryThing is for us "intellectuals", as Lindsay Lohan is for airheads.
Six Million Books! How many DVDs or CDs has LL sold? Six million?
There are so so many websites as there are so so many manufactured stars. 100 years from now Lindsay Lohan will be totally unknown.
How many books will LT have logged in 2106?
Tim, we are massively, eternally grateful to you for pimping us to the WSJ. And it is lame that they didn't give you higher billing (though I'll trade you your 84,000 users for my name in the paper any day). If it'll take some of the sting away, I'll mow your lawn this weekend. I'm a man of my word.
So who's that in the picture - Chet or Nat?
RE Bacon numbers: Suppose you were an extra in a move that would otherwise give you a Bacon number, but your scene was cut out of the movie. Would a person in this circumstance have a Bacon number?
Our Lohan number is now zero.
Surely you mean "one", unless there's something you're not telling us...
Well, there are some cross-overs, so your proximity to Lohan might actually lower your Erdos number.
It was me, it was me!!! ok, it wasn't me, but I love marzipan.
I'm thinking of spending some time in November adding my collection to LibraryThing, but... I'm almost ashamed to say this... I'm kind of interested in better inventory management at this end, such as barcodes or some other accession model. Is this too silly? Am I being too Librarian?
Would zero mean I WAS Lohan, or merely that I had carnal relations with her? Applying logic used elsewhere, "one of these things is not true." That's a true statement. (Alongside "I have one eye, "there are 20 senators," etc.)
K.G. Schneider: You want to put barcodes on your own books to keep track of them? I imagine that's not too hard to arrange, although LT doesn't have a field for it.
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