Thing 19: Other Social Networks

I tried to join Shelfari only to find out I had already joined earlier. I don’t remember joining and it is a good thing that I try to use the same user name and passwords for everything. I added a few titles to Shelfari and it is very easy to search for and add to this. I read a review of a book I liked and checked some of the reviews. I thought it was funny that some of the reviewer’s talked about the book as science fiction or a novel. The book is The Hot Zone by Richard Preston (a non-fiction book about Ebola viruses). It would be nice to think that Ebola isn’t real but unfortunately it is real.

Created by CDC microbiologist Frederick A. Murphy, this colorized transmission electron micrograph (TEM) revealed some of the ultrastructural morphology displayed by an Ebola virus virion.
Public Health Image Library 10815

GoodReads sounded familiar and when I checked an earlier thing, I saw that I had already looked at it. It was the one with Twilight on the best and worst books of all time lists.

Recently, I read an article about Yelp and restaurant reviews. I think it might have been in the New York Times. I looked at yelp a little and it will be a place I check when I have a specific search in mind.

There seem to be some good options for people who don’t find what they want on MySpace or Facebook. I recently joined Ravelry, a fiber craft social network. It is a great place to finding new patterns and sources for yarn. I am going to try to get to one the local yarn shops (LYS) in Macon when I am up there for the Cherry Blossom Festival this weekend.



by Anna Bencze