News-Record.com

Does anyone else do this? In Sunday's New York Times Book Review, Pamela Paul writes of "Internet-assisted narcissism" by authors with new books, but it applies to me with the blog.

Thanks to blog search engines like Technorati, IceRocket and Feedster, writers have easy access to the latest entries, where bloggers and their readers post both in-depth and off-the-cuff reactions to the books they're reading.

And later:

Of course the blogsophere can also be a rough place for fragile egos. Rick Moody, a self-described "suppurating wound of vulnerability," admits to having plugged his name into Technorati on several occasions. "I can graph it onto my serotonin levels," said Moody, whose new novel is "The Diviners." It's like taking a pill to enhance suicidal ideation. Even the good ones make me want to kill myself."

Fortunately, I don't plug my name in too often, and it comes up even less often. Every once in a while, though, I get a smile. For instance, I'm not sure which John Robinson is being referred to as "pretty fly", but I doubt it's me.