My LinkedIn account, which I never use, is now history. For whatever reason, it's been spammed to an incredible extent. Goodbye, LinkedIn.
The Typepad Comments Connect Beta feature, formerly enabled, is now disabled due to constant problems with the Preview feature, with lost comments and with a generally annoying set of supposedly advanced stuff that didn't do what it was supposed to do. Back to basic Comments which also means Spam. I'll see what I can do about spam until Typepad gets it's new Threaded feature installed. I think Captcha may be the only way to control spam for the immediate future.
More Google and Internet Archive Book scammers abound. Good Reads, Nabu Press, Pranava Books and Kessinger are still the big guys. There are others that seem to come and go but these four remain. I have a strong suspicion that someone has been selling the code through some Usenet channel or elsewhere instead of setting up shop on their own.
In the end, it's the universities who signed up for the programs who get the short end of the stick. Most thought there would be a nice income stream of reprints coming from the partnership. Not happening, is it? True, some people do buy books via the Google Books channel but from what I hear via the Books Underground Reprint People (BURP), customers don't come back for more once the quality of the first book bought is sussed out.
Facebook continues to be a source of more unknown people than I can imagine. I check in once in a bit or two just to see if there are messages but that's about it. There are books to read after all. Google+ may be awright, but finessing it may take more time than I feel like putting into it. Time will tell. Or, the ongoing investigations into Google's moves to dominate the internet may cause some changes in the future. Twitter makes me sneeze uncontrollably.
Next up, create a Bento 4 template for keeping track of ephemera and books. I wish there was a way to link LibraryThing with an external DB but so far, I haven't found anyone who has done so in a manner a DB simpleton such as I can understand. Nearly all of my books are pre-ISBN, requiring a bunch of hand entry and thus, time consuming. Woe.
Till next, Gary
