I've been wondering when I'd come across a blook produced using Blurb and now I have. The blook is VirtualDayz: Remediated Visions & Digital Memories by Elayne Zalis. The queer thing is that this blook is part of a Multimedia Quartet. Are you hearing echoes of Carbondale After Blog?
Zalis wrote less than two weeks ago (July 01, 2007) that two of the other books in the quartet, "Arella’s Repertoire, my novel, and Vagabond Scribe (Leah’s Backstory), a literary experiment (which also serves as a prequel to the novel), are now available online at Lulu." One day later she wrote that the final volume, Video-Graphic Alchemy: Transforming “Dear Diary", Zalis's personal reflection on her multimedia work, would also be available at Lulu.
I'm a curious critter [you know that by now, don't you?] so I plugged Virtualdayz into Google for giggles. I came up with the link to Virtualdayz at Blurb. I was promised a look-see at the first 15 pages (low res). Irresistible!
From the front matter I learned that the book included blog posts from June 27, 2005 to July 15, 2006. I also learned that Blurb had converted the URLS of all hyperlinks to footnotes. Ah! Something I had been wondering. I wandered inside the blook to see for myself what those footnotes looked like. You can, too, but I'll save you the trip. Here's a screen shot of just the last paragraph of a post.
So, whaddya think? Are you screaming because all those Technorati or Wordpress tags in your blog's footers are going to screw up your blook? Thought so.
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