When Class Discussion and Reality Coincide

Once again I was looking at The Times online when I came across an article that related too well to our class. "A Cozy Book Club, in a Virtual Reading Room" discusses how social networking has gone from teeny-boppers discussing their latest crush to a broader audience; in this case a literary-based audience. The article even mentions LibraryThing.com, one of the social bookmarking sites my group covered during Project 1, and discusses tagging used within bookmarking sites. The idea is that people are connecting with each other (now more than ever) in subjects they enjoy with help of the Web; this article just happened to highlight much of what we talk about in class!