Ultimate Blogs: Masterworks from the Wild Web (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780307278067)

"What are you working on?"
"An anthology of blogs."
"I didn't know you had a blog."
"I don't. It's an anthology of other people's blogs."
"How do you find good blogs?"
"I read. I surf. I look at blog contests. I follow links. I ask people about the blogs they like."
"Is a good blog hard to find?"
"Yes. Very."

A Book of Blogs? WTF!!

Sarah Boxer, a former New York Times reporter and critic, travels through the blogosphere (more than 80 million blogs -- and counting) and finds some masterpieces along the way. Among the bloggers in the anthology are:

two fashion critics mocking the inexplicable "fugliness" of celebrities
a Marine Corps lieutenant stationed in Fallujah in 2006
a 19-year old student in Singapore cheerfully pining for her ex
an illustrator's tiny saga of a rodent and his ball of crap
Odysseus's sidekick telling his side of the Iliad and Odyssey

Revealing and deceptive, grand and niggling, worldly and parochial, these blogs comprise a snapshot of life on the wild, wild Web.

Author: Sarah Boxer
ISBN-10: 0307278069
ISBN-13: 9780307278067
Publisher: Vintage
Language: English
Published: 02/12/2008
Pages: 368
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.88lbs
Size: 8.04h x 6.26w x 0.73d

Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 12/17/2007 pg. 44
New York Times Book Review 03/23/2008 pg. 19
Reference and Research Bk News 08/01/2008 pg. 1