World of Gnod

The visual representation of each writer's/band's/whatever's context is really well done. (I've looked at the literature webs, so I can't really comment about the others.) Does Gnod explain the peripheral writers' relationship to the central writer, or how the Gnod folks decided to put them in the same pool? For Michael Cunningham, for instance, we've got, among others, Michael Chrichton, Alan Watts, Ray Bradbury, Jeanette Winterson, and Jesus. The arrangement of peripheral writers around the central one seem completely arbitrary, moreover, except for their distance from the center and whether they move or not. My initial reaction is that it casts both too wide a net and not wide enough of a net. Fiction writers aren't limited to networks of other fiction writers; Bill Clinton (and Jesus, too, for that matter) is included, even though he hasn't actually written anything (as far as I know). Oddballs like that only suggest further possibilities of what could be included, but aren't. It's an interesting project, though.
But why is Dave Eggers in there???

The only two people in David Duke's network are Jesus and Dave Barry! And the book of his that they recommend is The Dukes of Hazzard: The Unofficial Companion!!

I've just taught it that fans of Louis Prima also like Atari Teenage Riot, so that will help.

It's true, so there's no reason it shouldn't help immensely.

I put in Captain Beefheart, Harry Partch, and Sun Ra, and got a bunch of recommendations. Some I recognized were:

John Coltrane
Charlie Haden
Archie Shepp
Alice Coltrane
Robert Wyatt

Not too bad, I guess.