Weekly Geek - 2009, 12

We’re community building this week at Weekly Geek, using an idea that Dewey came up with way back in Week 2. Dewey saw a great idea being proposed by Darla at Books and Other Thoughts, which she wanted to borrow for Weekly Geek (with Darla’s permission of course). She thought that when a WG reviewed a book it would b fun if they linked to other reviews of that book that were written by members of the Weekly Geek community. She had reasons and we all love a good, logical list so here they are:

1. As a blog reader, I like that I can have my review linked in someone else’s blog.

2. As a blog reader, I like that if I’m interested in a book Darla writes about, there will be other reviews linked at the bottom of the page, so I can get other viewpoints. You can see how this works here.

3. As a blog writer, when I review a book, I often remember that I read someone else’s review at some point, but whose? And when? With Darla’s method, people tell her about their reviews, and she can see what they had to say about a book that is still fresh in her mind.

I think this will add an extra feeling of community spirit to some of our blogs, which I’m all in favour of so I’ll be adopting Dewey/Darla’s policy from now on. Here’s how it’ll work:

If you’re a Weekly Geek stop by and say hey.

See a book I’ve reviewed that you also read and reviewed? Leave a link to your review in the comments section of my review post.

In a few days you’ll see a link to your review at the bottom of my original post (hopefully B will play nice and it will work).

I’ll be flitting around other Weekly Geek blogs this week to get to know some of the other participants and to see if they’ve reviewed any of the same books as me. Oh and I need to pick up a button because I love the shiny, shiny blog bling. By the way I have no idea why the line breaks on this post have gone insane - sorry bout that.)