#14 Not-so-technical stuff

Following the current practice of screaming around and trying NOT to be interested in various facets of these exercises (so that I have a chance of getting to the end by the end of the year!), I did spend some time looking at interesting blogs and posts through Technorati.

First of all I put "percussion" into the search engine (a throw back to my previous life) which resulted in 26,714 posts. Unhelpful, given time restraints. So I narrowed the field by putting in "mallet percussion" which brought it right down, but still not very helpful.

I then changed the search term to "mobile libraries", and within a couple of clicks I was looking at a site called BoingBoing (a site of really wonderful things). Amongst the stuff on view - and this is what relates to mobile libraries - was a project to put vast numbers of free books on the London Underground, to turn the Underground in fact into a huge free mobile library. This was apparently started in June this year (2007), and seems to have been very successful. The link is below:

http://www.boingboing.net/2007/06/04/london-book-project-.html

Again, I would like to have had more time to investigate, but I found this quite intriguing and hope to have the time to come back later.