January 12, 2009 • 11:34 pm 0
Was pretty blown away today by this Andrew O’Hagan article.
Everyone should read it. Basically, it’s about what’s wrong with our culture. I don’t agree with it all (he doesn’t acknowledge any of the positive aspects of today, but I get why he hasn’t), but it’s a great piece of text to start you thinking.
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January 5, 2009 • 11:48 am 0
Created a Bookcamp page on the wiki for my idea to start a project similar to 826. Hopefully can get some people talking about it!
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January 2, 2009 • 4:42 pm 0
Through some emails with Eli Horowitz, editor of McSweeney’s, found out about Fighting Words, the Irish answer to 826. I’ve been a bit obsessed with 826 today – it’s the idea of contributing something genuinely useful, and developing how much I’ve enjoyed teaching undergrads this year. And connecting with the McSweeney’s idea of audience participation and encouraging people to make their own art. Read the rest of this entry »
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• 12:29 pm 0
25: number of unread posts in my feed reader for my Technorati search of blogs with some authority for ‘McSweeney’s’.
46: number of unread posts in my feed reader for my Technorati search of blogs with any authority for ‘McSweeney’s’.
278: number of unread posts in my feed reader in my “Academic” folder
19 (December): last post on here, and this is roughly the last time I did anything academic, excluding marking essays.
37: number of essays I have to mark.
16 (January): when I have to mark these essays for.
15 (January): when I present a (totally unwritten, largely unformed) paper at my Department’s graduate seminar series.
17 (January): BookCamp (yes, that will be a busy time for me).
13: days I have to work on my paper.
5: hours I have left in the British Library today to get some kind of start done on my presentation.
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December 19, 2008 • 11:18 am 0
So James at booktwo got me into Bookcamp, and have been trying to articulate some thoughts in the last few days. Was at a Christmas party last night in which I met a YA author, who was telling me about their recently published book. Apparently their publisher, Hodder, have cut ties with Amazon for now, because Amazon wanted to sell their books for lower prices while still retaining the same profit that they would take on the higher price. Thereby passing along the price cut as a loss to the publisher and thus writers. Suck, Amazon!
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