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# Book Talk
- URL: https://werd.io/book-talk/
- Published: 2005-02-23T14:43:56.000Z
- Updated: 2025-06-12T11:01:38.000Z
- Author: Ben Werdmuller
- Tags: General, #ben-684a32da145d7d001be71dae, #Migrated-1749693130536, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2025-06-11 21:52

[Technorati](http://www.technorati.com/) is an interesting site for exploring what's semi-ironically known as the Blogosphere; furthermore, it has tags for categorising weblogs, and an API so you can plug stuff into it.

[Book Talk](http://www.technorati.com/live/products.html) is an interesting application that picks out the books webloggers are talking about at the moment. Unsurprisingly, given his sad death recently, the list is dominated by Hunter S Thompson - when that dies down, I expect there'll be a much wider range of titles. I'll be interested to see if they follow the New York Times bestseller list, or if the Blogosphere is a more original collection of people. (Incidentally, they've also got [News Talk](http://www.technorati.com/live/breakingnews.html), for news stories; to be honest, though, [Google News](http://news.google.com/) is a far better current events aggregator.)

Cunningly enough, each of the books also has a link to Amazon which includes an affiliate code, so Technorati is making a percentage of everything you buy if you click through. One to file under "I wish I'd thought of that", methinks.