Clock Rewinders on a Book Binge [70]

by Amanda @ On a Book Bender on September 30, 2012

Clock Rewinders on a Book Binge is where Tara @ 25 Hour Books and I shamelessly plug each other, share the fantastic posts, giveaways, or whatever else we’ve found and loved by other awesome bloggers (or authors!) during the week, and talk about the books we plan on reading in the coming week.

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On a Book Bender Recap

Meanwhile, in Amanda’s World

  • I can almost run a full 2 miles now (hitting a 12 minute mile right now; I’m hoping to get up to 10min/mile or less by the end of October), and I’m biking 5.5 miles. I am making PROGRESS.
  • My brother (whom I haven’t seen in a year and half) is visiting next week, so I’ve spent time preparing for that.
  • I’ve continued to do research about Feedburner and APIs, this is how I explained my understanding of APIs to Kelly recently:
    “The way that I understand APIs is that APIs function much like requests for information from the host. So, TweetDeck relies on Twitter APIs to update our different columns. APIs are used to create EXTERNAL applications (TweetDeck! Hootsuite!) that pull information from the host (Twitter) to the application (TweetDeck)–aka receiving tweets–or send information from the application (TweetDeck) to the host (Twitter)–aka tweeting. As for Feedburner, that means Feedburner APIs involve using information already gathered and provided by Feedburner to create something external. Like a detailed display of your feed count on your website. Is it true that we may not being able to display our feed count on our blogs? Yes, it might be. But will those stats go away? I don’t think so. Just like you could get rid of Twitter APIs, but still be able to use Twitter and tweet and see who retweeted you. You’d just have to go to the website to do it.”
    In other words, I don’t think Feedburner email subscriptions will go away. I don’t think automated tweeting will go away, either, because–unless I’m mistaken–that involves using Twitter APIs, not Feedburner APIs. Is there anyone with a better understanding of APIs that could confirm/negate that?
  • Bloggiesta kept me very, very busy. I made quite a few changes with my pages and navigation, so if you stop by for a comment, be sure to check that out!

Around the Book Blogging Community

Search Terms

book-bender beautiful disaster — Are you implying something here? o.O

giraffe meme — I don’t have one of these…yet.

“sometimes,” jem said, “our lives can change so fast that the change outpaces our minds and hearts. it’s those times, i think, when our lives have altered but we still long for the time before everything was altered– that is when we feel the greatest pain. i can tell you, though, from experience, you grow accustomed to it. you learn to live your new life, and you can’t imagine, or even really remember, how things were before.” page number hardcover — I kid you not, this was the entire search term.

lolcat i have no idea what you’re talking about — Uh-huh.

giraffes keep it together, funny — I like giraffes.

Goodreads Stats

Read in 2012 (133)

Currently Reading (2)

Own-Must-Read (90)

Pending (44)

Amazon Wishlist (64)

  • Never Seduce a Scot by Maya Banks
    • Because Kelly swears by Maya Banks
  • Dead Sky Morning by Karina Halle
    • I really like the direction of this series!

Unbreaking the Shelves Progress

DON’T WANT TO TALK ABOUT IT. *denies ALL THE THINGS*

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  • Kelly @ Reading the Paranormal September 30, 2012 at 9:24 am

    *looks at your Unbreaking the Shelves progress* Uh-huh.
    (I’ll just add that my signed books numbers didn’t change from last week. I blame the dang book that I couldn’t get into. Hmmph.)

    In other news… Amazon Wishlist! YAY! If Maya Banks doesn’t rock at least one of your socks off, I’ll mail you the Nieceling as a consolation prize!

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  • Smash Attack September 30, 2012 at 10:32 am

    Your athleticism makes me so proud but makes me feel like such a fat ass, which I have turned into since moving here. I need motivation. I don’t know what to do. *sigh*

    A GIRAFFE MEME! LOL

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    • Amanda @ On a Book Bender September 30, 2012 at 10:40 am

      Before I started running, my daily exercise was walking down the driveway to get the mail. We have a long driveway, but not long enough to make any kind of an impact. When it comes to exercising for me, it’s more about just doing it. I find that I’m capable of doing just about anything, but I have to push myself to do it. Before I committed to running, I was biking the 2.1 miles, and thinking, “Well, I’ll just keep doing this until I build up endurance” but that’s a load of crap: I’ll never discover my limits if I don’t push myself. Most of the time, exercising is a mental game, not a physical one.

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  • Kristilyn (Reading in Winter) September 30, 2012 at 11:30 am

    Yay for the running! I’m such a slow runner and with all the mosquitos, it’s tough to actually get outside to run in the summer. Maybe with the fall weather I’ll get out more!

    I don’t share a lot of my personal life in my blog … some people overshare a LOT of things.

    Yeah. I am with you on the Unbreaking the Shelves progress, BUT I did purge more books. I also bought books. AND now I’m downloading free books. I’d say that’s a fail.

    Oh, and I can’t wait to start that Karina Halle series!!!

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    • Amanda @ On a Book Bender September 30, 2012 at 12:45 pm

      I have allergies, so that was always my excuse for not running in the summer. The best time to do it, though, is early in the morning when it’s still cool outside. :)

      To be fair, people are certainly welcome to make their blogs as personal as they want. It’s just… I don’t necessarily need or want to know. But I just run my blog the way I want to, and if I come across something I feel is too personal, I avoid it. Some people really like when bloggers get personal. *shrugs*

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  • Jenny September 30, 2012 at 12:16 pm

    Good for you with the running and biking Amanda! That’s so much more than I do. I pretty much start wheezing just walking to the mailbox. *Pats self on back*

    And I’m a huge fan of Maya Banks’s Highlander series – I blew through all three of those in one weekend and then devoured her newest one – Never Seduce a Scot. ADORED.

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  • Amy @ bookgoonie September 30, 2012 at 12:43 pm

    *jumps up and down* You liked Red-Headed Stepchild. It is on my eBook to read pile for Unstacking My Shelves. She was at the Kevin Hearne book signing. She cracked me up and is clearly made of awesome. The kind of chick you want to kick it with sitting around a campfire and partaking in spirits.

    *high five* on your bike riding & running. Need to get my booty moving again.

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  • Anya @ On Starships and Dragonwings October 1, 2012 at 7:45 am

    In the computer science world APIs (application programming interface) is what outside developers interact with to use the services of the given website. So for a project in the past I used the Yahoo stock API to have my program automatically grab stock data from Yahoo. Your explanation is fairly accurate, though I’m still worried about the automatic tweeting since that program needs to pull information from both your feed and twitter, so we’ll see :-/.

    But yes, basically APIs are for outside developers and the internal workings of Feedburner will stay the same, it’s just that outside development will no longer be supported.

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    • Amanda @ On a Book Bender October 1, 2012 at 9:15 am

      Well, at least there are other services that will automatically tweet your posts if Feedburner doesn’t have it? I started using WP to Twitter. JetPack has a tweeting service, too. I actually stopped using Feedburner’s automatic tweeting a while ago because it wasn’t very reliable. =/

      Thanks for your expert computer knowledge, Anya! :)

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