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Another book I picked up to fill in some background reading for my article on blogs and libraries. I didn’t actually get a lot of fodder for the article, but I would recommend this book to anyone with a blogging jones. I stumbled upon the whole weblog phenomenon in 2000, right about when I started library school (coincidence? I think not. But that’s for another time). I was intrigued from the get go and haphazardly followed a fairly illogical bread crumb trail from one blog to another. I didn’t know much about who the big players were, well maybe enough to know that a link from Kottke had you off to the races but not much beyond that. I didn’t know who was who, who coined the term “weblog”, who decided how to pronounce it that way, or any of those wee historical details. This book fills all of that backstory right in. Many of the contributions were previously published blog posts too so the style is comfortably familiar. Since the blog phenomenon is proving itself to be more than a fad (4 years on the Internet is a lifetime), I have a feeling that this book will only become more important as time passes.