Apr
30
Twit-Casting Your Face Pod?
April 30, 2009 | Leave a Comment
[or, “How to be Cool in the Modern Age”]
My husband likes to joke as he is fiddling with his iphone that he is “twit-casting his face pod” - an absurd self mockery, but disturbingly accurate. Gone forever are the days when just having a Facebook page was enough.
When I first encountered Twitter I found it […]
Apr
29
The Slow Road
April 29, 2009 | Leave a Comment
Rob Brezsny is my astrology guru, but he is also my guru of awesome quotations. Here is one from this week’s Free Will Astrology newsletter:
“It is the greatest of all mistakes to do nothing because you can only do a little,” said the writer Sydney Smith.
This is appropriate advice for writers creating work word by […]
Apr
27
A World I Never Made: Author James LePore
April 27, 2009 | Leave a Comment
Welcome, James LePore, author of A World I Never Made.
How did you begin writing?
I took a creative writing class in college and wrote eight short stories. These are now fortunately lost to history, but that was my beginning.
Did you intend to become an author?
No, but I intended to try to write, and hopefully get published.
What […]
Apr
24
Books Won’t Rot Your Brain…
April 24, 2009 | Leave a Comment
But apparently it’s possible that television news could erode your sense of empathy and turn you into a sociopath. According to Wired, that is. We avid readers have known this all along so it’s worth a hearty “I told you so” to the T.V. gods - Go ahead, say it.
Here is the article. And here […]
Apr
21
More Trees = Less Books
April 21, 2009 | Leave a Comment
Well, if there is one good thing about losing paper books to more digital media, it’s the fact that the publishing industry could save a lot of trees…
Book Industry Environmental Council’s Goal: Reduce Emissions by 20%
By Lynn Andriani — Publishers Weekly
The Book Industry Environmental Council announced aggressive goals to reduce greenhouse gas emissions at a […]
Apr
20
The Wizardry of Ease: Why ebooks are Catching Air
April 20, 2009 | Leave a Comment
Guest Bloggger Kassia Krozser (K2) of Book Square writes to LiveWires about the ebook industry and how knowing your customer is knowing your market:
Know Your Customer, Know Your Market
Let’s get this out of the way first: I have no patience for people who, upon entering a discussion about digital books, declare (and I paraphrase), “The […]
Apr
17
“Vook, I am your father.”
April 17, 2009 | 1 Comment
Have you noticed that there is a space to add quotes on your Facebook profile? Quotes are the quintessential short attention span reading pleasure. And thanks to all the digital fidgeting in my daily life, my attention span is pretty slight these days. So, I’ve been making a point of putting some literary quotes in […]
Apr
15
eSaurus: No longer just an animatronic ancient reptile
April 15, 2009 | Leave a Comment
An aside: Yeah, yeah, I get it. The ebook is not a book so I should stop complaining that it doesn’t have the book smell. Well, sorry. I am not going to stop complaining. I expect futuristic style momentum when it comes to this and so the book smell is going to need to be […]
Apr
13
Guest Blogger: Laura Dawson
April 13, 2009 | Leave a Comment
My name is Laura D and I am a Gawker addict.
In fact, I am a Gawker commenter. (Handle: ljnd2, Avatar: Limecat.)
I began reading Gawker in 2004. It’s been interesting to watch the site morph over the years, particularly since the introduction of comments – now editors don’t even always write a whole post, but […]
Apr
10
Twit Lit
April 10, 2009 | Leave a Comment
I’m tech savvy-ish. I like new things. I have a twitter account. But the idea of writing, let alone reading, a novel on Twitter makes my head hurt.
Because I know you’re curious, at Twitip.com, Brandon J. Mendelson, author of Twitter novel The Falcon Can Hear The Falconer, shares tips on how to create a novel […]