LT Love From WSJ

If you don’t keep up with what is happening at Library Thing (I do – I’m uttlerly fascinated with how many people link to/use/write about it), then you may not have been this piece from the WSJ today (well, maybe you serendipitously came across it).

If you didn’t, go read it (Do not pass go, etc). It’s an amazing explanation about the service and the reccomendation aspect, which to this day still blows my mind. Libraries should be bouncing around the room to use a tool like this. I love this quote from Tim Spalding (to whom I still owe a beer):

“[G]enerating picks based on an entire collection is far more revealing than focusing on purchases. “The stuff that you own is just a very powerful expression of your self,” Mr. Spalding says. “These catalogs represent a lifetime of collecting.”

Talk about creating a niche. Congrats Tim.