Comments on: Living Outside The Box And Within My New Categories http://libdrone.info/2008/03/living-outside-the-box-and-within-my-new-categories/ An almost daily report of interesting, unusual and noteworthy books that passed under my scanner. Thu, 20 Nov 2008 16:28:25 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.3 By: Alan http://libdrone.info/2008/03/living-outside-the-box-and-within-my-new-categories/#comment-688 Alan Fri, 04 Apr 2008 06:29:02 +0000 http://libdrone.info/2008/03/living-outside-the-box-and-within-my-new-categories/#comment-688 Margaret, Thanks for stopping by and for sharing your perspective. Will, I have zillions of tags since I always include the author and title of any book mentioned in the tags and this helps me to receive search visitors, but with all the books I cover and the many of them which have multiple authors my complete tag list is way to huge to be put in a side bar and due to space limitations the tag cloud I have at the bottom of my home page shows only a fraction of these. I am already seeing in my stats that visitors are using the new categories to visit older content and traffic is up, even though I have slacked off on my Entrecard dropping and worse slipped out of the top three in my category so my traffic from Entrecard is way down. Margaret,

Thanks for stopping by and for sharing your perspective.

Will,

I have zillions of tags since I always include the author and title of any book mentioned in the tags and this helps me to receive search visitors, but with all the books I cover and the many of them which have multiple authors my complete tag list is way to huge to be put in a side bar and due to space limitations the tag cloud I have at the bottom of my home page shows only a fraction of these. I am already seeing in my stats that visitors are using the new categories to visit older content and traffic is up, even though I have slacked off on my Entrecard dropping and worse slipped out of the top three in my category so my traffic from Entrecard is way down.

]]> By: W http://libdrone.info/2008/03/living-outside-the-box-and-within-my-new-categories/#comment-678 W Tue, 01 Apr 2008 18:56:37 +0000 http://libdrone.info/2008/03/living-outside-the-box-and-within-my-new-categories/#comment-678 Hi Alan! Thanks for pointing that out about clicking on the book covers. It really works well. These days it seems I have so little time for books and fortunately TV watching is almost non-existent. I can't imagine how most people find the time to watch all the TV that they do? For this site, I think you are dead on correct about the importance of your category list. I bet visitors will make good use of any of the improvements you are making. For many sites, mine included, the categories are more cumbersome than anything else. I have even considered not including them in my sidebar. Tags were supposed to be the solution to category problems, but even tags have not lived up to their billing. Hi Alan! Thanks for pointing that out about clicking on the book covers. It really works well. These days it seems I have so little time for books and fortunately TV watching is almost non-existent. I can’t imagine how most people find the time to watch all the TV that they do?

For this site, I think you are dead on correct about the importance of your category list. I bet visitors will make good use of any of the improvements you are making. For many sites, mine included, the categories are more cumbersome than anything else. I have even considered not including them in my sidebar. Tags were supposed to be the solution to category problems, but even tags have not lived up to their billing.

]]> By: Margaret http://libdrone.info/2008/03/living-outside-the-box-and-within-my-new-categories/#comment-673 Margaret Sun, 30 Mar 2008 23:56:49 +0000 http://libdrone.info/2008/03/living-outside-the-box-and-within-my-new-categories/#comment-673 I've never been a big t.v. watcher. I would much rather read a book, but I would not say that I'm passionately against anyone who does watch a fair amount of t.v. I do think children should be limited in how much they are allowed to watch. I’ve never been a big t.v. watcher. I would much rather read a book, but I would not say that I’m passionately against anyone who does watch a fair amount of t.v. I do think children should be limited in how much they are allowed to watch.

]]> By: Alan http://libdrone.info/2008/03/living-outside-the-box-and-within-my-new-categories/#comment-671 Alan Sun, 30 Mar 2008 18:02:05 +0000 http://libdrone.info/2008/03/living-outside-the-box-and-within-my-new-categories/#comment-671 Judge, I agree that there certainly can be value in some television programming, though I do believe that many people waste too much time on it. Jennifer, Thanks so much for your kind words. I hope that you will visist again. Susan, Click the book cover to get it from the library! This works in the UK. (The book covers are linked to Worldcat, which is an <em>International</em> meta search engine for public libraries. I know for certain from other readers that it does work for the UK and my understanding is that it also works for any country which has public libraries with books in English,) Judge,

I agree that there certainly can be value in some television programming, though I do believe that many people waste too much time on it.

Jennifer,

Thanks so much for your kind words. I hope that you will visist again.

Susan,

Click the book cover to get it from the library! This works in the UK. (The book covers are linked to Worldcat, which is an International meta search engine for public libraries. I know for certain from other readers that it does work for the UK and my understanding is that it also works for any country which has public libraries with books in English,)

]]> By: Susan from UK web developers http://libdrone.info/2008/03/living-outside-the-box-and-within-my-new-categories/#comment-670 Susan from UK web developers Sun, 30 Mar 2008 13:25:12 +0000 http://libdrone.info/2008/03/living-outside-the-box-and-within-my-new-categories/#comment-670 I just wanted to say, what is so special about not watching TV? I did not watch TV from Friday till today (and it is still shut down) so what it is all about? Or I'm just an exception? Maybe, because I'm more addicted to PC :-D By the way, great site, I just hope, that we have in our stores the same books, so I can buy a book which you recommend :-) I just wanted to say, what is so special about not watching TV? I did not watch TV from Friday till today (and it is still shut down) so what it is all about? Or I’m just an exception? Maybe, because I’m more addicted to PC :-D
By the way, great site, I just hope, that we have in our stores the same books, so I can buy a book which you recommend :-)

]]> By: Jennifer Robin http://libdrone.info/2008/03/living-outside-the-box-and-within-my-new-categories/#comment-666 Jennifer Robin Sun, 30 Mar 2008 00:24:30 +0000 http://libdrone.info/2008/03/living-outside-the-box-and-within-my-new-categories/#comment-666 I love having someplace like this to come for book reviews. I did not know about clicking on the covers for library requests. Awesome! Keep up the good work. I love having someplace like this to come for book reviews. I did not know about clicking on the covers for library requests. Awesome! Keep up the good work.

]]> By: Judge http://libdrone.info/2008/03/living-outside-the-box-and-within-my-new-categories/#comment-665 Judge Sat, 29 Mar 2008 12:35:43 +0000 http://libdrone.info/2008/03/living-outside-the-box-and-within-my-new-categories/#comment-665 Edward R. Murrow said it best: "This instrument can teach, it can illuminate; yes, and it can even inspire, but it can do so only to the extent that humans are determined to use it to those ends. Otherwise it is merely wires and lights in a box." There is so much potential in television besides brainless reality shows and sit-coms. To completely ignore all of the positive benefits is really pathetic. Edward R. Murrow said it best: “This instrument can teach, it can illuminate; yes, and it can even inspire, but it can do so only to the extent that humans are determined to use it to those ends. Otherwise it is merely wires and lights in a box.”

There is so much potential in television besides brainless reality shows and sit-coms. To completely ignore all of the positive benefits is really pathetic.

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