![]() 1157” and “Leave a message for an author you’d like to thank, ext. Some ads are prompts for readers to share new stories such as “Leave a message about the strangest thing you ever found in a book, ext. ![]() 4603” and interviews with booksellers in every state. There are also quirky ads that leave you wanting to know more, like “2 Guys Moving Co.: The move is afoot!, call John at ext. 5436), and the Little Free Library set in a 110-year-old tree in Idaho (ext. 6973), the giant bookshelf mural painted in the parking garage of the Kansas City Public Library in Missouri (ext. The ads allow readers to hear about “bookish places” such as Joan Didion’s Hollywood house (ext. This phone book also has “ads” assigned four-digit extensions. 1039) is a beautiful story from a caller whose parents both left sweet written messages to her in a copy of Little Women that she received as a gift when she turned 12. Under “People Who Write in Books,” one message (ext. Under Massachusetts, for example, readers can dial extension 1050 to hear a message left about Prep by Curtis Sittenfeld or extensions 44 to hear messages about The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath. Like the Yellow Pages, which isn’t arranged alphabetically, but by topic, the Call Me Ishmael messages are organized in this new book by themes and emotions like “adversity,” “home,” “lost & found,” and “mistakes.” There’s also a section for every state. As Smalley says, the messages aren’t book reports or even book recommendations, but “what book changed your life?” ![]() Readers call 77, enter a four-digit number from the book, and listen to one of the nearly 1,000 anonymous voicemail messages left in response to the original Call Me Ishmael project prompt: Tell us about a book you love. For lovers of books and bookstores, or readers looking to branch out, or if you just like hearing other people’s stories, this guide will be a resource.Īnd using it is fun. Luckily, Kent’s godmother ran a pizza shop in nearby New Jersey and had what Smalley describes as the “motherlode” of Yellow Page directories, which they hauled back to their apartment and used as inspiration for what would become The Call Me Ishmael Phone Book: An Interactive Guide to Life-Changing Books.įor anyone who remembers dog-earing the page in the Yellow Pages of a favorite pizza shop or circling a local plumber who kindly showed up on a holiday, this new book will feel nostalgic. “All of the library’s recent copies,” says Smalley, “had been stolen.” Even the New York Public Library, which has collected phone books dating back to the 1800s, offered nothing. A visit to a local AT&T store came up empty handed. ![]() Living in the middle of Manhattan, Smalley and Kent thought, “How hard could it be to find phonebooks?” Turns out, it’s pretty hard. Matt Idema, Facebook's vice president of business messaging, told Reuters that while the program is taking off in Brazil, India and Indonesia are the perfect next candidates for expansion.Read more of this story at Slashdot.When Logan Smalley, Ed.M.’08, and Stephanie Kent wanted to turn their Call Me Ishmael voicemail project into a printed directory styled after a phone book, they decided to flip through old copies of the Yellow Pages to get a sense of how the iconic publication was organized. The chat app doesn't have any ads, unlike Facebook and Instagram, so business interactions and transactions are one of the biggest ways for Facebook to earn some moolah out of it. While the WhatsApp Business app has been around, you couldn't really search for businesses using the app, unless you've interacted with them previously. For years, Facebook and Instagram have been trying to connect you to businesses and make your shop through their platforms. If you live in Sao Paulo, you'll be able to search for local shops using WhatsApp Business through the 'Businesses Nearby' menu in the new chat option. The Next Web reports: WhatsApp's head, Will Cathcart, announced this feature and said "we've built this in a private way." He claims that the company won't log your location or the businesses you're searching for. WhatsApp is testing a new "Yellow Pages" like feature in Sao Paulo, Brazil, that will let users search for local shops.
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