Young people may regret tomorrow what they make public today but I think we will all be protected by the doctrine of mutually assured humiliation (I won’t dig up your college-party picture if you don’t dig up mine).
Jeff Jarvis, “Openness and the Internet,” BusinessWeek (via somethingchanged)
malty: My post-it note confession
All good books are alike in that they are truer than if they had really happened and after you are finished reading one you will feel all that happened to you and afterwards it all belongs to you; the good and the bad, the ecstasy, the remorse and the sorrow, the people and the places and how the weather was. If you can get so that you can give that to people, then you are a writer.
Ernest Hemingway in Esquire, December 1934 (via 52books)
beattitude: apsies: Generosity Appearing at a San Francisco soup kitchen, the Dalai Lama spoke of his position as Tibet’s exiled spiritual leader, saying “Me too, homeless person.”
noun • /ˈɛkwɪvəʊk/ • 1) a play on words, a pun. 2) ambiguity. 3) a double meaning.
From Latin æquivocus, “ambiguous”.
I like too many things and get all confused and hung-up running from one falling star to another till I drop. This is the night, what it does to you. I had nothing to offer anybody except my own confusion.
Jack Kerouac, On the Road, Part 2, Ch. 4 (via crookedtooth)
Model for a 21st Century Newsroom. Text and pics via Online Journalism
The model in action:
- Alert: ‘Lord Smith: “stop ‘Mickey Mouse’ degrees”‘ – link to…
- Draft: gives more detail, and is open to comments and discussion, linking to other blogs. One commenter points out that Lord Smith studied English Literature. Journalist seeks ‘official’ comment to put in the…
- Article: two blog post comments incorporated into a version that goes in the printed newspaper.
- Context: best links taken from blog post comments, as well as full transcript of speech, audio and some mobile phone video taken by one attendee. Tags (’LordSmith’) used to link to ongoing coverage and provide an instant ‘portal’.
- Analysis: one particularly well informed blogger who linked to the Draft post is paid to write a longer piece for the paper. A commenter – an academic – is invited to a podcast discussion with Lord Smith.
- Interactivity: website visitors are invited to ‘attempt an essay question’ from a ‘Mickey Mouse’ degree, giving a real first-hand understanding of what is involved in the subject.
- Customisation: an RSS feed or email alert is available for any stories tagged ‘LordSmith’
noun • /rod-uh-muhn-TADE/ or /roh-duh-muhn-TAHD/ • braggadocio, vain boasting
adjective • pretentiously boastful
verb • to boast or brag pretentiouslyAlternate spelling: rhodomontade. From Rodomont, a boastful character in two famous Italian Renaissance epic poems.
noun • the moment in the plot of a drama in which the hero makes a discovery that explains previously unexplained events or situations
whatannaloves: i miss reading.
in my office, on my desk, is a copy of miles gone by. last night someone defaced the book cover. the book was intended to be a gift. really odd & disappointing on many levels.
So much of what passed for political coverage last night was like watching a manure spreader in a windstorm.
somewhere recently i read the phrase “politics is the opiate of the people” (i’m not sure if it is related to this article). it got me thinking that a lot of americans don’t or can’t distinguish between words & ideas of politics, government & civic life. years ago i read thomas paine’s common sense. at the risk of a sophist overview, the book’s theme expresses that america is a people with a government (not a government with a people).
[on reviewing what i just wrote, i hope i am not mistaken for matt mittan]
anyway, i voted for the city mayor and three city council members.
social media will not replace your marketing campaign efforts & social media should not be confused with cheaper, more effective alternatives to a company’s marketing campaigns. those are my two of my observations.
from 10 Things Social Media Can’t Do by B.L. Ochman (for AdAge.com):
- Substitute for marketing strategy.
- Produce meaningful, measurable results quickly.
- Replace PR.
Read the rest of the list here.
this is something I continue to tell the marketing department, but for some reason i have been moved to the basement with a red stapler…
Ludwig von Feuerbach was a nineteenth-century atheist who curiously declared that God did not make us, but rather we made God as a figment of our imagination.
Time lost is time when we have not lived a full human life, time unenriched by experience, creative endeavor, enjoyment, and…. suffering.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer (via charlesgomes)
Why did you start your small press/why did you become an independent publisher? What need was not being met by the existing presses? (via)
how many pull quotes can you possible use to answer whether poetry is poetry, or prose?
Samuel Taylor Coleridge:
The definition of good prose is – proper words in their proper places; of good verse – the most proper words in their proper places. The words in prose ought to express their intended meaning, and no more… But in verse, you must do more; there the words [are] the media…
Housman:
Poetry is not the thing said but the way of saying it.
Frost:
poetry is what’s lost in translation.
Auden:
A poem must be a closed system.
(via)
this reminds me that i need to finish writing my book reviews for spr…
What I always say to creative writing students when I talk about book reviewing is that they’re entering a landscape vastly different from the one I entered, and I only entered a few years ago. Obviously, the Internet has rapidly and irrevocably changed the way books—and anything—are talked about. We now live in an age where some large segment of “professional” book criticism takes place in a medium somewhere between the customer comment and the fancy print book review. Literally, everyone’s a critic, if they want to be and can type. (via)
if you had $2000 to spend on publishing your poetry manuscript, why give that money to 76 publishers?
from the book of kells:
So in total, 76 presses had the opportunity to consider it over 5 years (plus 9 that ALMOST got to consider it…) Don’t do the math on how much it cost me in postage, paper, and contest fees (I’m estimating about $30 a shot) or you’ll end up with about $400 a year on submissions (I’d guess about $2000 total). This makes me a little ill as that’s a lot of money. Thankfully, it was over 5 years, so my family still ate well and was fully clothed while I tried my best to be published. (via)
this is a really good argument for self-publishing your own poetry manuscript… imho… i’m just saying, if i had $2000 to spend on my own book, i’d hire a professional editor, art director, & spend the rest on printing, ad/marketing & distribution.
The artists of the past all had their rebellion. Elvis was rebelling against sexual repression, and Dylan was rebelling against immorality, and I feel like I’m rebelling against technology and the death of romance.
Jack White
(so much to love!){A}
(via papertowngirl)
Coffeehouse Junkie 