From a publishing industry information service: "Many people of a certain age (ahem) enjoy playing around with Facebook - but come away unsatisfied. Not everyone they know is in the network, and not everyone they know in the network relies on it to..

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A Taste for Death -Times Online. This leader (link above) in today's Times is a paean of praise for the novels of P. D. James. Whether or not one finds these particular novels the pinnacle of crime fiction, one cannot disagree (well, I can't)...
Topics: Books

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So you decide to start a blog. What do you decide upon for the title of your first-ever post? "I hate blogs, bloggers and blogging" is the considered decision of Professor Stephen Curry in his inaugural post on his new blog Reciprocal Space....
Topics: Science, Weblogs

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My reviews of three books have been posted at Euro Crime in the past couple of weeks. As usual for me these days, owing to the excellent recommendations I receive essentially via blogs, I thoroughly enjoyed all three of these excellent titles, two of...
Topics: Reading

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If you are a blogger, no doubt you've read plenty of those helpful articles on building online communities, how to attract comments to your blog, how to manage comment discussions, etc. The aspect I'd like to highlight here is very simple: make...

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