April 01, 2004

Never Threaten to Eat Your Co-Workers: Best of Blogs

This book reminds me a lot of Chip Rowe's The Book of Zines, a one-shot digest of the best of paper zines from the 1990s. Blogs have pretty much replaced zines as the medium of choice for amateur publishers. The main difference is that there are far more blogs than there ever were zines. This is is probably because it's much easier to do a blog than a zine. Anyway, Alan Graham and Bonnie Burton did a wonderful job finding some very funny, thought-provoking material from the enormous slush pile of blogs. I don't know how they did it, but here it is, in one easy-to-read book. (Full disclosure -- my work appears in both The Book of Zines and Never Threaten to Eat Your Co-Workers). Buy from Amazon