The App.net #Bookclub

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We like to keep an eye out for examples of the creativity, depth, and strength of the App.net community. That’s partly why we like #MondayNightDanceParty so much and why we’re excited about App.net’s very own #Bookclub, which has crystalized over the last few days.

The idea is familiar: participants in the #Bookclub will choose one book a month to read and discuss it on App.net on the last Saturday of the month. @icy got things rolling and suggested the #bookclub start with Christopher Beuhlman’s wonderfully eerie novel Those Across the River. The discussion is scheduled for Saturday, December 29. To participate, just read the book and be ready on the 29th to share a few thoughts.

@shawnthroop put together a few pages and hashtags to keep track of it all:

#bookclub – http://scriptogr.am/adnbookclub: where you can learn about the current month’s  selection.

#bookclubsuggestion -http://scriptogr.am/adnbookclub/suggest: where you can recommend a book for future months.

#bookclubvote – http://scriptogr.am/adnbookclub/vote: where you can vote on the next month’s choice.

There are still details to be worked out, so monitor those hashtags for updates.

 

  • Matthew Flaschen

    This brings up an issue I noticed when comparing to Stack Overflow. They have something called tag wikis (http://stackoverflow.com/privileges/approve-tag-wiki-edits), which are basically description of a tag.

    It would be nice if app.net had a version of this. I realize the devil is in the details (who edits it?), but it would be nice for things like #bookclub and a distinguishing feature over Twitter.

    • http://twitter.com/ianthedeveloper Ian Carroll

      A wiki could be updated with the current meanings of the hashtags. I could manage said wiki…

      • Matthew Flaschen

        :) It would be most valuable if all the clients supported both reading and editing the wiki, which most likely means app.net running it (and doing the API).

        One thought is something like MediaWiki’s flagged revisions (but simplified). Someone makes a change, and if you opt in to be a tag wiki editor, you see all changes live.

        But it only goes live for regular users once three (or however many) editors approve it. This would still allow gamesmanship, so maybe three increases to much larger n as the tag is heavily posted in.

        • http://twitter.com/ianthedeveloper Ian Carroll

          Sent an email to Dalton. Hopefully I will help run it, if Dalton trusts me with the subdomain….