Thursday, August 24, 2006

"If You Were A Book...


What kind of book would you be?"

Have you ever stopped and looked back at the volume of writing you've done? It blows my mind that I have now made 624 posts. Some were easy, some were hard. Some draft posts have been written but have not ever been posted. Some drafts have existed for over a year and are still not completed. Possibly never will be.

What's all this have to do with books?

I just was wondering if you took all of my posts, or anyone's posts for that matter, and printed them out, and bound them in a book, would the whole thing make any sense?

10 comments:

  1. My almost knee-jerk reaction to blogs was to write a book called "Blogging, the Old Fashioned Way".

    I would be a sarcastic, cynical, humorous, and sometimes serious book. Somewhat existential, not caring about time or space.

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  2. Quipper!

    Does anything "written" on the internet really exist, since there is no physical evidence of it except for some phosporescent radiance?

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  3. Scottius - ya got me! All my smart-alek responses just won't cut it here.

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  4. Quipper!

    Huh? What are we talking about?

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  5. Industrious people make money turning others' blogs into books! I keep planning to print up my blog, entry by entry (or maybe day by day) and fashion into a book, but I keep putting the task off. The thought of it is now so big that it makes me procrastinate even further.

    Blog Book links:
    http://www.blogbinders.com/
    http://ideaconsultants.blogspot.com/2005/11/turn-your-blog-into-book-and-sell-it.html

    Turn your post into a letter to congress:
    http://zgp.org/~dmarti/blosxom/www/blog2congress.html

    And turn your blog into an excuse for intelligent conversation (an idea that Lutherans latched onto a long time ago, right?):

    http://chronicle.com/free/v52/i47/47a02001.htm

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  6. TK!

    It's amazing how much you know about this blogging stuff. Maybe you got some pointers from Mr. Hicks.

    Sometimes it pays to be "connected".

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  7. One more thing, if I were a book and I was Barbara Walters, I'd shut myself. :)

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  8. Scottius - I have many partial remarks to make regarding anything "written" on the internet. I just can't complete any of them. You stumped me. :-)

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  9. Quipper!

    I'm stumped 97.6% of the time. And it happens to the best of us, too.

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