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Pulitzer Prize-winning author Junot Díaz annotates his own novel on Rap Genius
- sp332 13y agoIt's just a link to http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2013/jul/25/junot-diaz-shares-pulitzer-prize-novel-inspiration http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2013/jul/25/junot-diaz-share...
- tomlemon 13y agoHere's the actual annotated excerpt: http://poetry.rapgenius.com/Junot-diaz-the-brief-wondrous-life-of-oscar-wao-excerpt-lyrics http://poetry.rapgenius.com/Junot-diaz-the-brief-wondrous-li...
- redwood 13y agoI find it confusing that RapGenius seems to be for rap, or at least music, or perhaps poetry... but books don't fit as well into their world. Great to see them getting some publicity but they'll definitely need to make an effort to brand beyond 'rap' especially b/c it can elicit a negative connotation for a lot of people (like 'country')
- zmitri 13y agoThat Rap Genius domain name has so much SEO power. I think it's actually extremely smart on their part to leave it like that for now because any content on their site is going to pop up in search rankings.
- _neil 13y agoRap lyrics seem to be just one use case for their technology. And rap itself is a niche that's easy to build an audience/test case with. I think the tech itself applies well to things like books as demonstrated by things like notation in Kindle books. It probably just needs a format different than the thin-column layout they currently have.
- hedonist 13y agoThat's the genius of it, you see.
- evanlivingston 13y agoTo clarify: Pulitzer Prize-winning author Junot Díaz annotates three paragraphs from his own novel on Rap Genius.