2 book fairs in 1
one of the main themes of the last days was the Leipzig book fair, which happened just now, at the verge of spring. i visited the fair last year, and followed it online this year. it's a festival of books and all the themes they encompass. so many links, photos, comments, reflections - based on them, i put 2 articles together. one is for the German comics page (one of my freelance projects), and the focus thus is on comics and the trends in the German book market (where comics & graphic novels are seen as "not really literature" by some, but alas, they find more and more readers, and are one of the continuing focus themes in Leipzig with an own hall).
later, i put together a blog note about Leipzig for the New Zealand blog – piecing it together brought back even more memories of my own visits to the fair. the New Zealand article is about the visiting authors – but then rolls in a wider direction, and includes the history of the fair in a nutshell – which is so deeply connected to Leipzig and to the German history. it’s online now here: Impressions from the Leipzig book fair
working on both was like moving through the same fair, but in different worlds, probably best illustrated by the tweets with the links:
New Zealand authors at the Leipzig Book Fair & a walk through Leipzig city: newzealandgermany2012.wordpress.com/category/feature #lbm12
Comics, Graphic Novels & Manga auf der Leipziger Buchmesse: Clips, Links + geteilte Meinungen: mycomicsde.blogspot.de/2012/03/comics #lbm12
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a key to twitter
the "#lbm12" you see at the end of each tweet is the tag for the Leipzig Book Fair: "Leipzig Buch Messe '12". it's just a little addition, but it's like a link (or rather: it is the link) that connects your tweet to a virtual web catalogue. twitter has the function to create a whole twitterstream for an event or a theme with a tag, when clicking on the tag, it lists all tweets that include the tag - and in contrast to facebook, it lists all, and not only the ones you are friends with already. here's an example, and below a screenshot: twitter-hashtag #lbm12
a note: for large events, the stream often gets so busy that twitter just lists the "Top Tweets", but offers the option to switch to "All" on top of the list, which then lists the most recent tweets. .
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new blog carnival: language/place: "Senses"
parallel to all the book fair blogging, the language/place carnival went online, just in time for spring. and again, twitter was one of the places that spread the message beyond mail, here's the message from issue-editor Stella Pierides, with lots of tags included to help to spread the news:
Lang/Place #14 on The Senses in Language/Place is here!
http://stellapierides.com/blog/languageplace-14-locating-the-senses
#stories # #art #smallstone #greece #poem
the coincidence in time was especially beautiful as it actually was a visit to a book fair that brought the idea for the language/place carnival, which then later also sparked the New Zealand carnival. here's that story: When 2 Things Connect.
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a second key to twitter
you can also use twitter to search for a theme when the tweets don't include hashtags.
for example, if you go ahead and look for the "language/place" carnival on twitter, and enter the term in the seach field, this tweet-list pops up: twitter: "language/place":
so that's the second key to twitter: you don't need a hashtag to cross-connect, you can also just do a search by theme. but then, hashtags in tweets of course invite to click, while otherwise, it takes a copy-and-paste first. and if a lot of people use the same hashtag or the same terms in their tweets, a theme can go "trending" and will be listed in the sidebar next to the tweets (this happened with the book fair, both "Buchmesse" and "#lbm12" were listed as trending while the fair was on.)
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books, books & books
and finally, to round the book-blog-day up, i put a new book feature live in the blueprint book blog, which in time turned into a little book exhibition itself, with books that range from poetry to novel to non-fiction and art. here's the blog link: blueprint book + lit blog
and here's the note for the new book feature - the book? it's about walking into the world with an open mind and an open heart:
poetry meets philosophy:
Daniela Elza isn't afraid of the questions and answers
the weight of dew - Daniela Elza
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now, a new day. things to do, one of them: preparing the next pages of the blueprint issue. and some time off-line, with a book ... ("Journal of a Solitude" by Mary Sarton. talk about contrasts.)
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