The Blooker is a literary prize aimed at honoring the best books based on blogs. The short list and judges have been announced for this year prize sponsored by Lulu.
On the list is Post Secret, now one of the world's ten most popular blogs, attracting 3.5 million visitors a month.
A new genre of stories based on photos posted on Flick'r is called Fliction with The Doorbells of Florence, the first to employ fliction with photos by Andrewlos, now on the Blooker short list and published as a coffee table book.
From Via de Martelli, 8 comes the wonderful story of how a would-be Sam Spade became The Undertaker of Debt.