Monday, August 07, 2006
Blog Digest
A few things I'm reading this week:
- Jessica Stockton's Written Nerd blog has a great dialogue between Carl Lennertz, Andy Laties, and Dave from NJ about the importance of Book Sense. The debate started here with Dave's complaints about the ABA.
- I'm following the Whole Foods stock now, for a number of reasons, but one of them is because I admire the shopping experience I get at Whole Foods and want to learn more about how the company operates. Tonight I discovered the CEO's blog and this amazing post on how he sees Whole Foods using the theory of Spiral Dynamics to advance their company mission. Spiral Dynamics seems to have some good points and I see vague connections to some of the directions my bookstore thinking has been heading lately. If you read a little about the CEO's thoughts on changing agricultural practices, you see that this company has way bigger, global goals than simply profit and loss.
- This Tuesday, Aug 8, Connecticut Democrats vote to keep Joe Lieberman or oust him in favor of Ned Lamont. This election could be a historic moment for the future of Democrats and defnitely will shape the political dialogue for Fall midterm elections. I think it's indisputable that political books are a key category for many bookstores and will only become more popular as we hit the next presidential cycle. I'm reading Daily Kos for CT Primary news.
- Baghdad Burning paints a grim picture of life inside Baghdad. I'm not a foreign policy expert and I don't have any answers on the Iraq war. But the closest I see to positive steps forward is actually talking one on one with people across cultures. Doing it through the universality, security, and anonymity of blogs seems a good place to start. This person who says "You can only hope your family and friends will remain alive- not safe, not secure- just alive. That’s good enough," is also posting Iraqi recipes for the world here. That's something isn't it? Isn't it?
UPDATE: The blogger has a book out from Feminist Press.
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- Jessica Stockton's Written Nerd blog has a great dialogue between Carl Lennertz, Andy Laties, and Dave from NJ about the importance of Book Sense. The debate started here with Dave's complaints about the ABA.
- I'm following the Whole Foods stock now, for a number of reasons, but one of them is because I admire the shopping experience I get at Whole Foods and want to learn more about how the company operates. Tonight I discovered the CEO's blog and this amazing post on how he sees Whole Foods using the theory of Spiral Dynamics to advance their company mission. Spiral Dynamics seems to have some good points and I see vague connections to some of the directions my bookstore thinking has been heading lately. If you read a little about the CEO's thoughts on changing agricultural practices, you see that this company has way bigger, global goals than simply profit and loss.
- This Tuesday, Aug 8, Connecticut Democrats vote to keep Joe Lieberman or oust him in favor of Ned Lamont. This election could be a historic moment for the future of Democrats and defnitely will shape the political dialogue for Fall midterm elections. I think it's indisputable that political books are a key category for many bookstores and will only become more popular as we hit the next presidential cycle. I'm reading Daily Kos for CT Primary news.
- Baghdad Burning paints a grim picture of life inside Baghdad. I'm not a foreign policy expert and I don't have any answers on the Iraq war. But the closest I see to positive steps forward is actually talking one on one with people across cultures. Doing it through the universality, security, and anonymity of blogs seems a good place to start. This person who says "You can only hope your family and friends will remain alive- not safe, not secure- just alive. That’s good enough," is also posting Iraqi recipes for the world here. That's something isn't it? Isn't it?
UPDATE: The blogger has a book out from Feminist Press.
