Music did it. Movies did it. Television is doing it. Even the newspapers are reluctantly doing it. The book publishing industry now stands as the last major media format to make the leap from traditional publishing to digital. The leap is large. The leap is scary. This is the largest change to the printing of [...]
Though I used the music industry as the frequent example in my feature on online publishing, there is another industry that comes to mind – the current generation of video game consoles. This generation saw Nintendo break from the current processor and graphics arms race, and instead put out a console that was fun and [...]
This weekend, while I was out at the book store, I had the desire to read something new. I wanted a new author, not necessarily a new writer, just new to me. A new voice, a new setting, something new. So, as I am want to do when looking for many varied viewpoints, I hit [...]
Despite the troubled economy, despite my wallet being a bit leaner and looser than I would like, I managed to make a pilgrimage to Barnes and Noble this weekend and pick up a couple of books. It appears that I am not alone in this. With the recent spate of tragic news regarding the publishing [...]
Danger Room, a National Security-focused blog at Wired.com, is not normally the place one would go to find sound advice on being a modern writer. Further adding to the general sense of improbability is that the Danger Room story is actually focused on flowchart put out by the United States Air Force. So, you might [...]
Perhaps the most widely cited reason for the inclusion or usage of profanity in any artistic medium is the desire for realism. The logic itself makes sense because people do, in fact, swear. Some of us frequently. And some, like the Coen brothers, David Mamet (video with strong language), and even William Shakespeare, have become [...]
In the final two weeks before the inauguration, still President Bush has to perform a time-honored Presidential tradition – he must write a pair of letters. The first letter is to be sent to the president before him, Bill Clinton. The second is to be given to his successor, Barrack Obama. Thanks to the speed [...]
First day back from vacation. Is the work week starting off a little slow, a little painful? Got some rust around the ol’ mouse hand? Well, here’s what just might be the most inspirational speech* ever, cut together from 40 of Hollywood’s most memorable. *Political bias – Obama’s acceptance speech was also pretty damn inspirational, [...]
The other day, Tom Chandler over at the Copywriter Underground posted a link to a beta project called the Typealyzer. What this bizarre sounding website does is attempt to diagnose the voice of a blog through the Jung / Myers-Briggs personality test. I say attempt, as Typealyzer isn’t exposing their methods and the results are [...]
The front page of Sunday’s Washington Post was splashed with escalation of the Israel Palestine Conflict into a ground war. However, on Saturday Andy Carvin decided to use the web to put the size of these countries into perspective by contrasting scale satellite photos of both the Israel region and both Washington D.C. and New [...]
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