A new section has been added to the forum today:
The Blogosphere. This is an area that provides a selection of links from around the blogosphere where bloggers are discussing translated/world literature, whether it be reviews, festival news, reflections, obituaries, etc. - and all managed by a bot called
BlogSpy. (Incidentally, if anyone can think of a better name, I'm listening.)
In a way it's a tentative experiment to see if it can help with World Literature Forum's visibility on search engines as, while there are threads on specific authors and books, there is so much more out there that can be brought in to the site. And hopefully it will help the bloggers, too, by driving some traffic their way and helping raise the profile of their blog.
I've added a number of blogs for now and will continue to scour the net looking for more blogs where people are posting information relevant to the forum's subject matter. I'll get round to creating a Sticky post in The Blogosphere listing all blogs currently aggregated and, if anyone has suggestions for more, then just send me
a private message with the details.