May 20th, 2010
Fridge Magnet Poetry Without the Appliance
Love fridge magnet poetry? No fridge? Problem solved. Check it out.
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May 16th, 2010
Newspaper Asks Readers to Stop Buying Print Edition
It’s Sunday, so a good day to keep blog entries light and fun. I should save serious for weekdays. I bought the June 2010 issue of ConsumerReports the other day. The inside back cover has a regular offering called Selling It: Goofs, Glitches, Gotchas featuring humorous reader-submitted illustrations of products and promotions that perhaps never…
May 16th, 2010
IF YOU PUBLISH SOMETHING
Missed this gem by Canadian comedian Rick Moranis in Friday’s New York Times.
May 15th, 2010
Privacy, Facebook and the Future of Publishing
The issue of privacy, confidentiality, identity theft and…what else am I forgetting…has been haunting the public since long before the web. The web’s capacity to amass truly vast amounts of identifiable personal information, both on a voluntary basis and on a surreptitious one, has greatly heightened concern about these issues. A number of stupid, careless and…
May 14th, 2010
Orwell vs. Huxley on the Future of Books
My friend Bob McArthur recently wrote to me, “Am nearing the end of Chris Hedges Empire of Illusion…a dark and angry book about the rotting from within of North American culture.” Later he sent an excerpt, which itself contained an excerpt from Neil Postman’s Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show…