Ultimate Blogs: Masterworks from the Wild Web

By Sarah Boxer

Book Overview

"What are you working on?" "An anthology of blogs." "I didn't know you had a blog." "I don't. It's an anthology of other people's blogs." "How do you find good blogs?" "I read. I surf. I look at blog contests. I follow links. I ask people about the blogs they like." "Is a good blog hard to find?" "Yes. Very." A Book of Blogs? WTF Sarah Boxer, a former New York Times reporter and critic, travels through the blogosphere (more than 80 million blogs -- and counting) and finds some masterpieces along the way. Among the bloggers in the anthology are: two fashion critics mocking the inexplicable "fugliness" of celebrities a Marine Corps lieutenant stationed in Fallujah in 2006 a 19-year old student in Singapore cheerfully pining for her ex an illustrator's tiny saga of a rodent and his ball of crap Odysseus's sidekick telling his side of the Iliad and Odyssey Revealing and deceptive, grand and niggling, worldly and parochial, these blogs comprise a snapshot of life on the wild, wild Web.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0307278069
• ISBN13: 9780307278067
• Release Date: February 2008
• Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 0.88 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.3" x 8.0"