A lot of good links, but it might cause you to use your old bean to read and digest the discussion.
Blogs survive as scavengers
News-gathering is expensive. (Read previous posts on this theme here (The (read) sky (between) is (the) falling (lines)) and here (Pornographers don’t sell pornography).) That’s why I present this from Simon Dumenco for AdAge.com:
“unlike Salon, which… pays for its content, HuffPo [HuffingtonPost] has an ethically questionable content-generation scheme: It doesn’t pay most of its bloggers at all. Worse, it sometimes even lifts content wholesale from other sites that do pay for their own content…” (http://adage.com/mediaworks/article?article_id=133541)
‘Please know I love especially you, how every morning you turn over/ the languorous earth,…’
browsing through a copy of The American Poetry Review and Poetry (both arrived yesterday) while drinking a big cup coffee.
just finished watching a couple episodes of Marty Stouffer’s Wild America with the kidlingers
In the company of…
It is amusing to find lists of books that include a title (or titles) that I helped bring to the reading audience. This book list (http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/1852804) includes titles by C.S. Lewis, Ayn Rand, Chaim Potok and one of the books I published in the last few years. The company a book keeps on an individual reader’s bookshelf is very educational.
Book blogs are the enemy of reading. I discovered several such fascinating blogs this year and spent hours enamored of reading, listing the books I wanted to read, and reading others’ lists. Imagine my surprise when I realized that I had frittered away precious reading time staring at a computer screen. Apparently I was getting all the warm, fuzzy, readerly feelings without the commitment of turning pages. Sad.
// listening to the wind pull the barn door off its hinges.
Here is a great book to bring in the new year. It’s a by De Designpolitie and consists of essays, success stories, failed projects, fascinations and experiments. For more info…
So says an online current affairs and culture magazine funded by who? Oh, that’s right. A traditional print publication – Washington Post Company! Like I’ve said before, traditional news gathering organizations still provide the best content. Though, I believe that trend is changing. Still, Slate (online news media) is owned by Washington Post (traditional print media).
Good grief! If newspapers stop printing, what will I use to wrap all the Christmas gifts?
I was hoping for an invitation to read an inaugural poem. Here’s a haiku I prepared in case McCain won the election:“How’d you like your moosesteak, McPalin?” “Rare, with aside of off-shore oil.”
Lunch is to publishing as liquidity is to banking
From Robert McCrum:
The book world is in full-blown transition. Blogs are rampant; Google is digitising every text going; e-readers are transforming the experience of reading. Books (and book reviewing) have been pushed to the margin. It doesn’t help that in a global recession publishing is also feeling the pinch.
Lunch is to publishing as liquidity is to banking.
We work, we play, we marry, we grow old, we dust ourselves off and keep going, all in a quiet hopelessness, neither loving much nor expecting to be loved much. We hang drapes in our pit and hunker down. All is weariness; what has been will be. And then Christmas comes.
Andrée Seu
Goof off at work, read a book, ignore e-mail
Long Tail Content – a haiku
scumblr: lickystickypicky: I am in love with pictures….they transmit us to places never seen before.
This should be Tumblr’s mantra.
I’m embarrassed to say that since college… I’ve been so busy speechwriting for Kerry and then Barack that I haven’t been reading all the good literary stuff I used to read…
~Jon Favreau
NOTES:
1) Mark Warren, “What Obama’s 27-Year-Old Speechwriter Learned From George W. Bush,” Esquire, accessed December 20, 2008, https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/a5339/barack-obamas-speech-writer-1208/
Big ideas often demand a marketing strategy that is a lot more difficult than marketing gravity…. When in doubt, market gravity.
Seth on the death of the personal blog
From BlogAsheville:
Many local bloggers have neglected their blogs recently, with varying reasons/excuses.
So, do bloggers need a bailout too? No. Read Seth’s take on the personal blog demise:
There’s a difference between a blog about YOU… and a blog about the reader. Guy Kawasaki’s blog, and my blog for that matter, are not about us, about what we ate yesterday or how great we are. They are about you, the reader.
I guess there’s an easy analogy:
Your blog could be like a newspaper (written by a staff)
or it could be like a book (written by an author)
So, enough about me. How about you?
The point is not to show up on a list, the point is to start a conversation that spreads, to share ideas and to chronicle your thinking.
Coffeehouse Junkie 