I'm a Moocher. I admit it. But that's OK.

It's BookMooch - something I picked up on at LibraryThing. It's very simple... you list the books you have and no longer want, which gives you the right to peruse everyone else's list of unwanted books. If you see something you like, you notify the lister and he sends it to you. Of course, it works the other way too - if someone wants one of your books, you send it to them. No money ever changes hands. BookMooch assigns points, tracks the transactions, and generally keeps everyone honest.

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Clay, always a step ahead, has just reminded me of a site I visited once and never really examined closely. LibraryThing is absolutely fantastic!

This is what Clay had to say about LibraryThing.

I've already begun to catalog my vast biblio holdings. The pace will really pickup when my hand held barcode scanner arrives. LibraryThing very cleverly cross-coordinates the book's ISBN code with the Library of Congress and Amazon.com to fill in all your information, even a pic of the cover. There's actually an interesting story behind the scanner LibraryThing offers. Once again, courtesy of Clay, the scanner story. It's worth a read.

And in case you're curious: Derek's Library (a work in progress)

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Michele White of the aptly named Michele White's Blog asks about group blogging within CF Blog...

"On another and probably more important issue in terms of our "experiment" or beta-testing. I do wonder about the functionality of this blog software for a classroom. Any thoughts on whether we can facilitate a group blog so students can more easily read the comments of other students? Are there other options for making our blogs more interconnected?"

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A recent discussion on the NMC listserv prompted members to offer their choices for recent and classic texts on technology and pedagogy. The responses brought up a number of noteworthy texts. Take a look for yourself, with nifty embedded links and everything...

Educating the Net Generation (2005)
ed. by Diana Oblinger and James Oblinger

Convergence Culture: Where Old and New Media Collide (2006)
by Henry Jenkins

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