May

05May08

9 months out.

BookRabbit from idea to launch shares the gestation period of a human child, and, despite it sounding clichéd, I do feel quite a bit of anxiety about whether it’ll be able to hop or not. Over the next few days we’ll do all we can to make sure that it can, especially focusing on the very simplest things, search, browse, messaging etc to ensure that people can use the site. Usually helps.

But now for something completely different:

Some time ago I grew increasingly worried about the likelihood of the UK government following the lead of the US and attempting to monitor people’s reading as an indication of political views, this has historical precedents that most will be aware of, but that the current climate of fear seems to legitimise. This looks like coming true at least in part. In the US they have set up the very commendable Campaign for Reader Privacy, I think that we may well need to take a similar stand over here.

New Home

You may have noticed – depending upon how you come to this blog, that it has a new home, and will over the next few weeks have some new bloggers to. From today onwards this blog will be the ‘official’ BlogRabbit blog and being the friendly sort of business that we are – everyone in the company can post should they so wish. (That reminds me – Adam we’ll need a disclaimer!)

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