Every Year I Support Banned Book Week. And Every Year the Top Comment I See is, "They haven't banned books for years."

This was dated May 9, 2012.

Fifty Shades of Grey banned from Florida libraries: Bestselling erotic novel removed from shelves in Brevard County as other US libraries make the most of title's popularity

The American Library Association, (ALA), has released the top ten most frequently challenged books of 2011.
You can see the full list here.

1. ttyl; ttfn; l8r, g8r (series), by Lauren Myracle
2. The Color of Earth (series), by Kim Dong Hwa
3. The Hunger Games trilogy, by Suzanne Collins
4. My Mom’s Having A Baby! A Kid’s Month-by-Month Guide to Pregnancy, by Dori Hillestad Butler
5. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, by Sherman Alexie
6. Alice (series), by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
7. Brave New World, by Aldous Huxley
8. What My Mother Doesn’t Know, by Sonya Sones
9. Gossip Girl (series), by Cecily Von Ziegesar
10. To Kill a Mockingbird, by Harper Lee




Banned Book Week on Facebook.

 

Medieval Tweets

 

 Image on the Edge: The Margins of Medieval Art

by Michael Camille

ON THURSDAY'S FACEBOOK OUTAGE

It had been a few days since I last checked my account, 

and I didn't even realize Facebook was down. 

I only have it as a convenient way to communicate 

with relatives on the other coast so I forget about it for long periods of time.

I think it was hilarious though,

that the drama that was the Facebook outage, played out on Twitter. 

I confess, I only found out about it from a blog, though. 

How's that for the interdependence of platforms?!

Facebook posted their updates, explanations, and apologies on twitter. And of course, the Facebook community took full advantage of the opportunity to stream jokes which were 

re-tweeted by the hundreds.

@MetsMerized:"Facebook is down! Employee productivity skyrockets, rioting reported in major cities, USA climbs out of 6-year recession"

@alqaeda:#facebook is down. Not sure if we did that, but we should claim credit anyway. Hitting the infidels where it hurts, etc

- Global Voices In English