He's a former 400-pounder who decided to walk from San Diego to New York, in an effort to lose weight and change his life.
Of course, he's chronicling it on his Web site (with blog) thefatmanwalking.com.
He's been walking for about eight months and has gone about 1,800 miles. In the process, he's dropped some weight, and has also picked up a few sponsors, some extra pounds in the form of donated electronic equipment and of course, a book deal.
In other book news, The New York Times [free registration, use BugMeNot] has an article about how Amazon is running a program to use author blogs and extended profiles to give authors more of a presence with their readers.
Their Amazon Connect program is one-way for now, but other author Web presences are not, and other publishing groups and books sellers are using blogs and the Web to increase the visibility of their authors:
"Most publishers have extensive author information on their Web sites, and a number of authors maintain their own sites, some quite elaborate."Hrm, do we know anyone like that?
Thanks -- Joe
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Joe? This is incredible. What is going on with this type of link here? I think it do make sense but I can only imagine how it happend like that, that's a good one that you once quoted.
from Rein
Hi Joe.. i was just wondering if aol is ever going to have the "wall of faces" so that we on dialup can see the faces??? Just curious.
how interesting! thanks Joe!
nat
I had this link on my journal months ago. Very interesting.
Hi -- I will check on the status of the Face Wall (gallery of bloggers) not showing up for some dialup users. Thanks -- Joe
Jarrod must be sweating that Subway gig now
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