Thing #19 - Exploring

I looked at the http://www.seomoz.org/ awards and decided to check a few things I'd never heard of.

While I do know about self publishing, I had not heard of Lulu, which helps writers, musicians, movie makers, just about all artists, get into the marketplace. Lulu help you publish you book and also helps you sell it. I took their tour and actually found it quite interesting. I then looked at some of their non-fiction books (I'm sorry, but fiction self-published books tend to be awful - call me a snob, I don't care). I found quite a few books on gardening, cooking, hiking (I found this book, which I think we might purchase for the library Freezer Bag Cooking: Trail Food Made Simple ) and I also looked at their self-published poetry (scary - again, call me a snob).

I next looked at http://www.metacafe.com/ which is sort of like youtube, but not as good. Which make me wonder why anyone would go to metacafe other than those who just want to boycott youtube because it's too popular. Anyway, seomoz gave it an award as third best in the video catagory.