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10 August 2010

Shopping as Spectator Sport It's just buying books, really, but it's still kind of hypnotizing.→[More:]

I had a look under the hood a bit, and unfortunately it's all done in javascript, rather than the geoRSS I was hoping to be able to scrape, mash and mix with other such datafeeds.

What would you do with it, where "you" here is either "you" as a data-hungry quasi-Google-esque monstrosity, a publishing mogul or just a map geek?

post by: tortillathehun at: 21:27 | 5 comments

I love the Internet.

posted by Joe Beese 10 August | 22:09

That's amazing. No idea what I'd do with it or what the point is, but it's amazing.

posted by dg 11 August | 05:54

Thanks. Sent this to all my bookworm homies.

posted by ColdChef 11 August | 09:05

Fascinating!

posted by toastedbeagle 11 August | 10:01

When someone in Germany buys a copy of Ann Coulter oh my god you have to start worrying about the rise of the fourth reich.

posted by mudpuppie 11 August | 10:46

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