“I’m surprised that no one’s mentioned yet that the reductive quality of the figurative-narrative line-space matrix threatens to penetrate the eloquence of these pieces.”
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I have often said I don’t ‘get’ Facebook. I think if I have something to say or share I post it to a blog. If one links your blog to your Facebook or Twitter people get snitty about overposting or ask why one finds some things interesting and request read-throughs; but they still send endless Facebook.app quizzes or pics of their forearm and gurning face beside an inebriated friend’s face. I do not know why people give their work and possessions to Facebook with no understanding of the ownership, copyright or privacy issues that this may bring to them and [ continue reading The AP Is Using Twitter To Send People To Facebook. Wait. What? ] All of this rings true to me. Unfortunately it was at this point – about five minutes ago – that I realised the time. I’ve spent so long catching up with everything I missed from the past week or so that six hours have passed. It’s dawn in San Francisco, a matter of minutes before my deadline, and I still haven’t written a word, let alone 1300. That’s the other annoying thing about skipping a week: it takes you another week just to catch up. (CLICK HERE FOR MORE »» TechCrunch NSFW: Playing catch-up… Or ceci n’est pas une [ continue reading NSFW: Playing catch-up… Or ceci n’est pas une column ] 22 February 2010  |  | category: advice, the new 'priest class', the state we're in, world of work, writing  | comments are closed  The world is going free! everyone need shovels and shovels need replacing but you can only hand over your gold once. In October Newsday (a Long Island daily paper that was sold for $650 million) began charging for online access. The price is $5 per week. In three months 35 people have subscribed. The web site redesign and relaunch cost the Dolans $4 million, according to Mr. Jimenez. With those 35 people, they’ve grossed about $9,000. In that time, without question, web traffic has begun to plummet, and, certainly, advertising will follow as well. After Three Months, Only [ continue reading After 3 months, Newsday’s web site gets 35 subscribers ] 28 January 2010 | | category: advice, facebook, Gallery of the bleedin' obvious, Nerds, one world, prognosticators, the state we're in, world of work, writing | comments are closed “The honest heart that’s free frae a’ intended fraud or guile. However fortune kick the ba’, Has ay some cause to smile.” So I get email from a good former student, applying for a job and asking for a recommendation. “Sure”, I say, “Tell me what you think I should say.” I then get a draft letter back in which the student has described their work and fitness for the job in terms so superlative it would make an Assistant Brand Manager blush. So I write my letter, looking over the student’s self-assessment and toning it down so that it sounds like it’s coming from a person and not a PR department, and send it off. And then, as I get [ continue reading A Rant About Women « Clay Shirky ] The Bihar provincial government in India announced recently that it intended to restore George Orwell’s birthplace, in the town of Motihari, and open it as a museum. Doesn’t hurt to be reminded that Orwell was a child of the Raj ‘ as was Kipling, whose birthplace, in Mumbai (Bombay), is already a museum ‘ but it’s hard to imagine that the Orwell bungalow will become much of an attraction. Orwell spent a mere year there, his first, and Motihari, on the Nepalese border, is one of the remotest places in India. (CLICK HERE FOR MORE -> Where Baby [ continue reading Where Baby Orwell Lived – NYTimes.com ] I accidentally came across an interesting comment by Charley Forness on how he uses his moleskine notebooks: The first thing I do is number all the pages and put a Table of Contents in back. The TOC is more or less a way of documenting the truly good stuff I might want to reference in the future. So, not everything gets logged in the TOC. If I’m whining again in a journal entry about why I’m not independently wealthy, that typically won’t make it into the TOC. I also add a couple of Big Goals pages, before the TOC, [ continue reading How to use a notebook, perhaps ] 1. You should pay for your own hosting. 2. You should write your own biography, not delegate it to invisible masses on Wikipedia. 3. You should write other people’s biographies, from your point of view. Or at least tell true stories about them, which can be assembled by others into alternate views. 4. Sign your name to all your writing. Use your real name, the one on your driver’s license, tax returns, passport, draft card. 5. If you care about a subject, write a definitive piece on it that reflects your point of view, you [ continue reading Corporate media is the problem. (Scripting News) ] Godwin’s Law (also known as Godwin’s Rule of Nazi Analogies or Godwin’s Law of Nazi Analogies)[1][2] is a humorous observation made by Mike Godwin in 1990 which has become an Internet adage. It states: “As an online discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving Nazis or Hitler approaches 1.”[3][2] Godwin’s Law is often cited in online discussions as a deterrent against the use of arguments in the widespread reductio ad Hitlerum form. The rule does not make any statement about whether any particular reference or comparison to Adolf Hitler or the Nazis might be appropriate, but [ continue reading Godwin’s law ] “What we call chaos is just patterns we haven’t recognized. What we call random is just patterns we can’t decipher. What we can’t understand we call nonsense. What we can’t read we call gibberish. There is no free will. There are no variables. There is only the inevitable.” Survivor by Chuck Palahniuk I read the attached piece and thought about what it is to be on the wheel and the, several, times when I have asked people to, “put me back on my bike”. When my Dad was dying I sat with him in a tiny corner-room with him in the Countess of Chester hospital which, at that time, was only slightly more caring to geriatrics than Dr Shipman (I have put away my anger with them but if your mum or dad live near there …). From his window in the small room I could see clear to the [ continue reading My friend is dying, but still he rides ] CHURCHES IMPOSE SWINE FLU BAN via HACKNEY GAZETTE. We are not the same persons this year as last; nor are those we love. It is a happy chance if we, changing, continue to love a changed person. 2 November 2009 | tagged as: happiness | | category: advice, bloody quotations, writing | comments are closed In his book Bagombo Snuff Box: Uncollected Short Fiction, Vonnegut listed eight rules for writing a short story: Use the time of a total stranger in such a way that he or she will not feel the time was wasted. Give the reader at least one character he or she can root for. Every character should want something, even if it is only a glass of water. Every sentence must do one of two things—reveal character or advance the action. Start as close to the end as possible. Be a Sadist. No matter how sweet and innocent your [ continue reading Kurt Vonnegut and his rules for characters ] If I could offer you only one tip for the future, sunscreen would be it. The long-term benefits of sunscreen have been proved by scientists, whereas the rest of my advice has no basis more reliable than my own meandering experience. I will dispense this advice now. Enjoy the power and beauty of your youth. Oh, never mind. You will not understand the power and beauty of your youth until they’ve faded. But trust me, in 20 years, you’ll look back at photos of yourself and recall in a way you can’t grasp now how much possibility lay before you [ continue reading Advice, like youth, probably just wasted on the young ] For the prospective college class of 2015, the next three weeks loom large. High-school juniors across the country, facing their first Preliminary SAT exams, are engrossed in improving their vocabulary. Here’s a thought that might help: A word that means the opposite of another is an antonym; a word that looks as if it means one thing but means quite another could be called a phantonym, and warrants wariness. via On Language – Phantonym – NYTimes.com. Cum catapultae proscriptae erunt tum soli proscripti catapultas habebunt via Fun Latin. 23 September 2009 | tagged as: words | | category: bloody quotations, Lingo, writing | comments are closed Milton Glaser – 10 things I have learned. Newspaper reporters and technical writers are trained to reveal almost nothing about themselves in their writings. This makes them freaks in the world of writers, since almost all of the other ink-stained wretches in that world reveal a lot about themselves to readers. We call these revelations, accidental and intentional, elements of style. via vonnegutSTYLE. |  
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