reading round-up…
A sample of my readings in the blogosphere this week…
* Social Networking Experiment at Ohio State – campus admins say let students manage the marketing to other students. –via the Chronicle (not sure if this requires a subscription)
* on the Elsevier boycott here and here –via Scholarly Kitchen
* cool Library Data on tumblr –via @librarydata
* Joe Murphy’s presentation topics at CIL2012. I’m not into Pinterest (who has time?!?!?!?!) but I’d love to see Joe’s talk on it. Hopefully he’ll post some slides 
And on the fiction writing front:
* why writing in isolation is like singing in the shower –by me, on the benefits of critique groups on a new blog I’ll be contributing to now & then. Join us over at Pen in Hand!
* on my personal blog I talk about being stuck in the middle (but you already knew that because you’re following me over there, right?)
* and some disheartening information about Goodreads and mean author tactics — via Wringing Out Words
Posted on February 17, 2012, in Reading. Bookmark the permalink. 2 Comments.
Char, I think the only people who get upset about the mean author tactics the writer describes are authors. As a reader, I use Goodreads to keep track of and share what I’m reading, as well as the things I want to read. I rarely interact with other readers, except to see what my friends are reading, and I learned a long time ago to take reviews with a grain of salt.
I hope other readers are as savvy as you, Anna. I do wonder how many see 1 star on a book review and immediately pass it by.