Links for 7/13/2007

If you want to kill some time on a Friday afternoon, here's five alternative ways to browse Amazon.com.

With such an immense array of products, browsing and searching them can become a chore. Below I'll take a look at five different visualizations that let you browse and find Amazon products in completely new ways. None of these are necessarily new sites, but they're all interesting and some are very useful and fun ways to browse through Amazon's massive catalog.

Have you ever gotten the urge to write your own book? You might want to check out Thomas Nixon's SmallPress Blog. Tom was gracious enough to feature me on the blog, and we discussed Plug Your Book.

In the interview, I explain why it's a good idea to maintain a blog if you're an author (or plan to become one):

Instead of trying to beat people over the head with an advertisement for your book, a blog enables your audience to discover you, and they get involved.

Blogging does take time, but the payoff can be huge. The more you blog, the more readers will find you, and contribute new ideas you can use in your books.