Never Threaten to Eat Your Co-Workers: Best of Blogs - Softcover

Burton, Bonnie; Graham, Alan

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1590593219 ISBN 13: 9781590593219

Publisher: Apress, 2004

Synopsis

* Wide appeal to popular culture and tech and non technical enthusiasts. The book will appeal to bloggers, males (60% of bloggers are male and females (50% of people who read blogs are female), and even those outside of the digital cognoscenti who are curious to know what blogs are all about.

* The editorial board currently includes: Doc Searls, Editor at Large for Linux Journal and preeminent blogger; Cory Doctorow, science fiction writer and blogger; Rick Karr, pop culture and technology reporter for NPR; Jack Boulware, San Francisco author and chronicler of the porn industry; and Bonnie Burton, a blogger and producer at ILM.

* Business Week and NYT have been discussing the growing importance of Blogs (Blog – web-based diary or "Web Log.")Some of the bloggers enjoy a semi-celebrity status.

* Stats: 1.4 million Active blogs, updated avg every 14 days; 107k updated weekly.

* Predictions: The number of hosted blogs created to exceed 5million by the end of 2003 and to exceed 10million by end of 2004.

* 4% of the online community read them, so there is a huge percentage of potential readers to draw from.

About this title

Synopsis:

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.

About the Author:

Bonnie Burton is the founder of GRRL.com. She is a devoted blogger, both writing and reading them.

About this edition

• Publisher: Apress
• Publication date: 2004
• ISBN 10: 1590593219
• ISBN 13: 9781590593219
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 301