I had learned of All Consuming over a year ago, and recently, I revisited it, and made a list of what I am “consuming”. It appears as a syndication in the lower right column of my blog home page (which is what this page is if you are reading it by visiting my main URL).
This seems like a good candidate to build on the “stacks” and “gardens” thing that has kind of turned into a thing amongst some bloggers. They have some other intriguing features, like RSS feeds for subscribing to the lists of others, or publishing your list as RSS. I haven’t found it yet, but I would like to see a feed done for the list of people who are “consuming” a book, and also a category for “Finished consuming” or “Completed”, kind of like a Que, where DONE books get into a different list , and “in process” books stay in the “consuming” category. Something else I’d like to see (and I could have sworn it used to do this: aggregating all the Amazon links to the various books, or even to the ISBN numbers —so as to include links to other bookstores to which books in blog mentions are being linked.)
I would also like to find a javascript function that returns an error message if a particular javascript syndication is taking too long to load (like the site is down or slow, which then slows the loading of my page. I’ve run into theis issue at work, too, so I’d like to know if any of you know how I might go about this.
Anyway, check it out, see the below link to the Politics of Jesus page on allconsuming.net
The book reviews section on my site is databased-driven (not purpose-driven, hah!). I can have books flagged as “currently reading” in the dB and they’ll show up on the front page, but books flagged as “done” are in my reviews section. I need to write a couple more reviews, though (I haven’t finished the one on Malachi Martin’s Hostage to the Devil).