Link of the day

[gwynhefar]

Ok, now this is way cool.

Enter an author's name and get a visual map of other authors that are similar. Clicking on a name will take you to the map for that author. Lots of fun.

Comments

[phantom_wolfboy]

Interestingly, Guy Gavriel Kay appears to be really popular with deLint readers, as he appears thrice: once as "Guy Gavriel Kay", once as "Guy Gavriel Kaye", and once as "Guy Kay". :)

[phantom_wolfboy]

Also interesting is that fans of "C. S. Lewis" also read "C.S. Lewis", though not so often, and "Clive Stapleton Lewis"--though I don't know who that is. :)

[gwynraven.livejournal.com]

Yeah there's some interesting spelling differences.

[lemlems.livejournal.com]

This rules!
The only downside is that given my very slight OCD tendancies, the next time I come to select a new book to read I will probably feel compelled to cross reference my favourite authors and pick a new author to try on the basis of who scores closest to my favourites :)

[gwynraven.livejournal.com]

If that's all it does to your OCD you're in good shape. Every time I see an author's name misspelled or two versions (ie with and without the middle initial) I want to go in and fix it. Drives my nice little OCD librarian brain insane.

[lemlems.livejournal.com]

:) See I've gotten around that by telling myself that if I was the person setting it up I would have deliberately included those different versions because I'd know that many people when they searched would either spell the name wrong or omit/include initials inappropriately.
If the search isn't sophisticated enough to find near matches that's the only way they could do it.

So it's not a mistake it's good management and we needn't worry ourselves about it. So it doesn't bother me. No siree. Not a bit.

[gwynraven.livejournal.com]

But don't you want everying *sob* standardised?!

[lemlems.livejournal.com]

Of course I do - and in an ideal world everyone would be a librarian so everything would be standardised. I content myself with having standardised approaches to mitigate the fact that most people are so annoyingly inexact - that way I can keep their chaos within rigidly defined boundaries :)

[gwynraven.livejournal.com]

I suppose that could work. I just content myself with being a librarian :)

[willow-aileen.livejournal.com]

That's really cool!