Media Log

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My resurrected media log site, media.jmac.org, is looking good enough to start sharing. Three new entries and a new About page, plus all the stuff from my old 2000 log (not all of which I agree with today, which is of course rather interesting).

Most of the new features are ones you can't see, like the editing page that, given an ISBN, is capable of using Amazon's XML backend to fetch lots of information about a book, and allows me to build Amazon-referrer link$, yummy yum. There are still bugs to fix and, uh, it might be nice if I actually applied some actual Web design to the thing. (You'll note that it no longer visually differentiates between different types of media, though they're all filed properly in the database... hrm.) But I am happy that it's come far enough to start plugging new content into. As the about page notes, I really did spend the last three years feeling annoyed whenever I read a book or saw a movie and then didn't note it. No more!

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When I mentioned this idea at a recent HoRGN, colorwheel or rikchik or maybe both or neither suggested expanding the media log to support several distinct loggers. I kind of like the idea of limiting the write-permissions to people who already know one another outside of the site, thus making it a reading circle's media log, and not YA general-public book-discussion site. I'd be interested in kicking this idea around some more if y'all are.

Comments

[ex-colorwhe.livejournal.com]

Sounds interesting to me, if it's okay with you that besides nonfiction I read almost entirely children's and young adult books...