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Interface and nice picture. So crazy !

Heartily second the recommendation of Chabon’s “Gentlemen of the Road.” Also “Summerland” is a must read.

It’s a run-down of books covered by boingboing in the last year or so. That would include Cory’s books because a) he co-runs the website and b) his books, in particular Little Brother, have received a great deal of praise from critics and readers. Little Brother is selling extremely well here in the UK. It’s not like he NEEDS to plug it here to sell more.

Can we all just drop the griping?

Your first comment on BB compared the moderation to Fox News and your hundredth (mazel tov) compared us to Sara Palin. Are you sure that BB is really the right blog for you?

Your blog link goes on your profile page. Thanks.

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1. A Christmas wish for me:

Dear Santa:

Just once I’d like to see a reader who, before complaining, paused to first go through Cory’s entries over the last several months, count up the entries that mention Cory’s own work, and divide the total by that figure.

What would be Really Wonderful would be a reader who not did that research on Boing Boing, but hunted up the blogs of some other professional fiction writers and compiled the same statistics for those other authors.

I know, Santa: it’s never going to happen. It’s not that Boing Boing’s readers aren’t up to the task of compiling all those statistics. It’s that a reader who’s done so is extremely unlikely to show up here afterward to complain that “Cory is constantly promoting his own work.”

2. Why we’re so hardnosed about this:

We know from considerable experience that if we let the first half-dozen comments stand, the later thread will turn into a mean-spirited, imitative pile-on that will retroactively make the earlier comments seem dumber than they were when they were posted.

It always makes me happy when I can unpublish those earier comments, because it means I’m keeping their authors from looking stupid.

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the kindle itself is fairly awesome.

It’s your opinion, but it’s unpleasantly voiced and completely uncalled for. Do you stop people in the street to tell them that they have an awful taste in ties, or that they should find another hairdresser? If people don’t suffer such rudeness in the street, why do you think they should suffer it on their blogs?

There is some behavior that is appropriate for a normal poster but inappropriate for a moderator. I suggest you look into what the differences are.

Incidentally, Cory would have received a good deal less shit from people for self-promoting if he’d included a note acknowledging it.