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All Consuming is a website that watches weblogs for books that they're talking about, and displays the most popular ones on an hourly basis. You can also use this site to add a list of books to your own weblog (and you don't need to know HTML). Learn more. Recent News:

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    Last Hour:
    Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim
    Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim
    by David Sedaris
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    ÒSo... as I mentioned in an earlier post, I just installed Shrook a few days ago.  There's this scene in Watchmen, my favorite graphic novel, where Ozymandias -- the smartest guy in the world and a costumed hero -- is taking in shitloads of information by watching a gigantic wall full of TV screens, just grokking the whole damn world.  I feel like I'm trying to do that, only I'm not quite as smart as Ozymandias. Ó
    Watchmen
    by Alan Moore, Dave Gibbons
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    Ò (Online Algorithms and Competitive Analysis):  http://www.iis.sinica.edu.tw/~hil/1032:20pm-5:20pmThe course will give an introduction on online algorithms and their competitive analysis. More specifically, we study how to act on incoming pieces of information without any knowledge of future inputs. Online problems occur, for example, in caching, paging, scheduling, load balancing, call admission control, routing, and robot navigation. Under the framework of competitive analysis, the solution co ... Ó
    Online Computation and Competitive Analysis
    by Allan Borodin, Ran El-Yaniv
    (visit site)
    Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs : A Low Culture Manifesto
    Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs : A Low Culture Manifesto
    by Chuck Klosterman
    (visit site)
    Stranger Than Fiction : True Stories
    Stranger Than Fiction : True Stories
    by CHUCK PALAHNIUK
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    Today:
    Unfit for Command : Swift Boat Veterans Speak Out Against John Kerry
    Unfit for Command : Swift Boat Veterans Speak Out Against John Kerry
    by John E. O'Neill, Jerome R. Corsi
    (79 mentions)
    We the Media
    We the Media
    by Dan Gillmor
    (36 mentions)
    In Defense of Internment: The Case for Racial Profiling in World War II and the War on Terror
    In Defense of Internment: The Case for Racial Profiling in World War II and the War on Terror
    by Michelle Malkin
    (23 mentions)
    The Da Vinci Code
    The Da Vinci Code
    by Dan Brown
    (26 mentions)
    The 9/11 Commission Report: Final Report of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States
    The 9/11 Commission Report: Final Report of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States
    by National Commission on Terrorist Attacks
    (30 mentions)
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    Yesterday:
    Unfit for Command : Swift Boat Veterans Speak Out Against John Kerry
    Unfit for Command : Swift Boat Veterans Speak Out Against John Kerry
    by John E. O'Neill, Jerome R. Corsi
    (49 mentions)
    We the Media
    We the Media
    by Dan Gillmor
    (30 mentions)
    In Defense of Internment: The Case for Racial Profiling in World War II and the War on Terror
    In Defense of Internment: The Case for Racial Profiling in World War II and the War on Terror
    by Michelle Malkin
    (20 mentions)
    The Da Vinci Code
    The Da Vinci Code
    by Dan Brown
    (27 mentions)
    The 9/11 Commission Report: Final Report of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States
    The 9/11 Commission Report: Final Report of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States
    by National Commission on Terrorist Attacks
    (31 mentions)
    See more from yesterday »


    A Week Ago:
    The 9/11 Commission Report: Final Report of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States
    The 9/11 Commission Report: Final Report of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States
    by National Commission on Terrorist Attacks
    (65 mentions)
    Unfit for Command : Swift Boat Veterans Speak Out Against John Kerry
    Unfit for Command : Swift Boat Veterans Speak Out Against John Kerry
    by John E. O'Neill, Jerome R. Corsi
    (14 mentions)
    String Theory, Vol. 1 : An Introduction to the Bosonic String (Cambridge Monographs on Mathematical Physics)
    String Theory, Vol. 1 : An Introduction to the Bosonic String (Cambridge Monographs on Mathematical Physics)
    by Joseph Polchinski, P. V. Landshoff, D. R. Nelson, D. W. Sciama, S. Weinberg
    (26 mentions)
    Playboy: 50 Years: The Cartoons
    Playboy: 50 Years: The Cartoons
    by Hugh M. Hefner
    (26 mentions)
    Trigun: Deep Space Planet Future Gun Action (Trigun)
    Trigun: Deep Space Planet Future Gun Action (Trigun)
    by Yasuhiro Nightow
    (26 mentions)
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    A Month Ago:
    My Life
    My Life
    by Bill Clinton
    (49 mentions)
    Michael Moore Is A Big Fat Stupid White Man
    Michael Moore Is A Big Fat Stupid White Man
    by David T. Hardy, Jason Clarke
    (37 mentions)
    The Da Vinci Code
    The Da Vinci Code
    by Dan Brown
    (19 mentions)
    Imperial Hubris: Why the West is Losing the War on Terror
    Imperial Hubris: Why the West is Losing the War on Terror
    by Anonymous
    (19 mentions)
    Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation
    Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation
    by Lynne Truss
    (12 mentions)
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    A Year Ago:
    Designing With Web Standards
    Designing With Web Standards
    by Jeffrey Zeldman
    (10 mentions)
    Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (Book 5)
    Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (Book 5)
    by J. K. Rowling, Mary GrandPré
    (15 mentions)
    The Da Vinci Code
    The Da Vinci Code
    by Dan Brown
    (12 mentions)
    The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference
    The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference
    by Malcolm Gladwell
    (6 mentions)
    Oryx and Crake
    Oryx and Crake
    by Margaret Atwood
    (5 mentions)
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    What is this site about?

    All Consuming is a website that visits recently updated weblogs every hour, checking them for links to books on Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Book Sense, and other book sites. Every book on this site has a list of all the weblogs that have mentioned it, and every weblog that has mentioned books in the past also has a page here listing which books it has mentioned. If you have a weblog, search for it here to see if we've picked anything up from it yet.

    This site was inspired by Book Watch, and uses web services from Weblogs.com, Amazon.com, Technorati.com, and Alexa.com. A web service is basically a system that lets websites talk to each other, sharing information between each other without the intervention of pesky humans. All Consuming also has a web service, available in SOAP and REST flavors.

    Sign up to create a list of books you're currently reading, have read, or plan to read. You can also make a list of your favorite books. You can also display this list on your own site by including a small snippet of javascript on your site (and you don't need to know any HTML).

    XML? RSS? We cache most of our content in xml and rss, so have a look through this directory for a list of available feeds. Archived feeds are kept here. As I continue to work on this site, one thing I'd like to do is make the xml a little more presentable... but most people that know what to do with xml probably won't care too much about the presentation. So there you go. Do something interesting.

    If you're a developer and you're interested in learning more about how this site works, I wrote an article for O'Reilly a while ago titled All Consuming Web Services. I also wrote 3 chapters in Amazon Hacks (#47, #48, and #100) about how this site interacts with Amazon in particular.

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