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MetaxuCafe Updates

Searching Member Sites
I’ve recently added a search function so that you can limit your Google search to just the blogs that are members of MetaxuCafe. I think that will be a good resource for everyone looking for literary topics online and you’ll find it right on the front page as well as other places on the site. Now if you want to read about, say Orhan Pamuk, but only want to search the litblogs you trust, you can narrow your search right here.

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MetaxuCafe Updates

by BudParr | MetaxuCafe on May 10, 2007

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Searching Member Sites
I’ve recently added a search function so that you can limit your Google search to just the blogs that are members of MetaxuCafe. I think that will be a good resource for everyone looking for literary topics online and you’ll find it right on the front page as well as other places on the site. Now if you want to read about, say Orhan Pamuk, but only want to search the litblogs you trust, you can narrow your search right here.

BEA

I’ll be moderating a panel on Book Reviewing and Blogging at 10:00 am June 1st at Book Expo, so if you’re going to be at BEA, please come by and be part of the discussion. Our panelists include Dwight Garner from the New York Times, Lizze Skurnick, a writer who blogs at OldHag.com, James Marcus, a writer who blogs at House of Mirth, and Anne Fernald from Fordham University, who blogs at Fernham. That also might be a good place and time for any bloggers attending BEA to meet up.

Finding Posts and New Blogs

I created a “Find Blogs” section listing all of our members by category, profession, and location. Did you know that you can browse through all of our members and see their ten latest posts? You can also get a snapshot of their interests too. It’s an easy way to keep up with all the sites out there.

Roundtables

My biggest goal with MetaxuCafe is to facilitate a higher level of discussion than might be possible on individual sites. I created an area called “The Roundtable” (term borrowed from Mr. Champion et. al.) and others sections for permanent groups. This area highlights a group of posts and puts comments in a prominent place for all to see, hopefully stirring more and more commentary. With each new comment, everyone in the discussion is notified via email (if they want to be). This is great for any type of discussion you want to host, so I hope more people will use it in the future.

We just used The Roundtable area to post a whole bunch of articles/videos/photos on the recent Pen World Voices Festival, so you may want to check that out. Let me know if you’re interested in hosting a discussion there.

Headlines

MetaxuCafe has always featured headlines from all of our members’ sites and I just want to remind you that it’s there. Because there are now so many sites with so many interests from the world of books, I’ve created a headlines section called “Strictly Literary” where I’m (and this is strictly my call on who goes in here) highlighting some sites that I think will be of interest to a general audience coming here. I hope that through this community site we can help people who don’t normally read, much less have, a blog to participate.

I welcome any comments and suggestions and by all means if you know someone with a book blog who is not a member, encourage them join up.

Best,
Bud Parr

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