Comments on: On reviews

By: Branko’s Weblog » Blog Archive » The frightening might of copyright

Sun, 06 Aug 2006 13:38:16 +0000

[...] Edit: when I wrote this review I used to publish my book reviews on third party websites. Later, I decided I would keep all my reviews under my own control. In August 2006 I added this entry to the books and review categories, and removed the phrase “(book review)” from the title. [...]

By: Branko’s Weblog » Blog Archive » More on reviews

Branko’s Weblog » Blog Archive » More on reviews — Wed, 31 May 2006 01:02:59 +0000

[...] See also the earlier On reviews, which deals with why I review books here instead of at Amazon, and why I review movies here instead of at the IMDB. [...]

By: Watching TV

Watching TV — Fri, 31 Mar 2006 04:27:52 +0000

Hey I was just surfing around and decided to post a short comment here. I run a movie review message board and am looking for people to write reviews and contribute at my forum. You can even post a link to your blog on your signature file at my forum. It’s all good! Take care.

By: brankl

brankl — Sat, 08 Oct 2005 02:52:11 +0000

Matthew, the one thing that initially made it appealing for me to post reviews on IMDB was that IMDB was _the_ site to post one’s reviews, the way Google is _the_ site if one wants to search the web (at least, over here it is).

Unless you push all other book sites out of the pond, that is not a status that Manybooks is going to acquire. The problem with my book reviews is simply that I want them to appear on everywhere, or at least sites 1, 2 and 3 (I am not a customer at 4, so I expect they would not take them anyway).

How about if I clicked somewhere stating that Manybooks.net can publish all blog entries that have the tags “books”, “review” and “cc-by”; and at the same time your site subscribed to Technorati or some other services that would allow you to keep your eye out for these keys. Then I would need to “subscribe” only once.

You could even have it so that sites with user-submitted book reviews would gang together and create a page were one click would “subscribe” to all of them.

Or, radically different, you could subscribe to a user book review service. Have one website that collects reviews, and have all other sites copy those reviews.

By: Matthew

Matthew — Thu, 06 Oct 2005 23:23:51 +0000

Hey Branko, you’ve got some good points there — I’d welcome ideas on how reviews ought to work on a book site. Some sort of reviewer identity system for starters (email address?) and an “edit” button? CC license? Reviewer tracking? Geesh, it can get out of hand, feature wise, pretty quick. What would be the one thing that would make putting your reviews on another’s site appealing?

Maybe that’s the ticket – make it possible to point to reviews on other sites…

By: brankl

brankl — Wed, 05 Oct 2005 10:07:51 +0000

Thanks, Cloggie: now I suddenly feel the weight of responsibility on my shoulders. Or is that the responsibility of weight? Do you think I should have mentioned that Nicki Clyne is a hottie in the Battlestar Galactica review?

By: Martin Wisse

Martin Wisse — Wed, 05 Oct 2005 06:38:12 +0000

Welcome!

Been doing bookreviews on my own site since 2001, without all this fancy blog software, just pure handrolled html.

For some books or authors, I’m now first ranked in google…