- Cultural Studies sale. Oooh, the good stuff for cheap…
- Why magazines are useless. Courtesy of HarperStudio’s 26th Story.
- A monetized Twitter feed? Interesting concept.
- An introduction to genre theory. Thanks, Julie!
- Doug Seibold on indie publishing. Really intriguing piece from Slate.
- Fiction reading increases for adults. Now there’s something you don’t hear very often.
- Clay Shirky’s predictions for 2009. “2009 is going to be a bloodbath.” Great.
- American Gods and London literary novelists. Amen.
- Pratchett knighted. Sir Terrence of Pratchett! Huzzah!
- Weird Tales appreciates Gaiman. Hear, hear.
- How Boccaccio would survive the credit crunch. Debauchery!
- How Twitter will change blog design in ’09. On it, thanks.
- Tweetbacks? So it begins.
- Facebook vs. MySpace: the numbers. Mmm, chewy data.
- Steampunk dangerous to your health? Radioactive jewelry = HOT.
- Junot Diaz day? This is getting surreal.
- Goss & Barzak on “living life to the fullest.” Me, I’m supersaturated.
- 462 books in 365 days. I wonder if I could do that.
- Eric Idle on John Cleese’s writing style. Hysterical.
- The Atlantic on the end times of print. Yadda, yadda, yadda.
- London Review of Books on video games. Still parsing this one.
- Salon on Bittman. God, I love The Minimalist.
- Juggling work and writing. Well… Kinda.
- Kazu Kibuishi finishes Amulet 2. Woot!
- NYT: How to publish without perishing. “The book is like a hammer.”
- Geektastic! Damn, what a lineup!
- Powazek: Ignore the content. The new Clute-less Sci-Fi Wire still sucks.
- RIP Ricardo Montalban. Khaaaan!
- Scalzi goes through the Stargate. Eeeeeen-teresting.
- TYBF&H is no more. Damn, first Endicott and now this.
- Rise and fall of the metal airship. See above re: steampunk.
- Fortune: Iger rocks Disney. I’ve been impressed so far.
- GENREALITY. Watch this space.
- Getting started with Arduino. Things to tinker with someday #522.
- Kleptoplasty. I need to remember this for rewriting Green.
- Viable Paradise writer’s workshop. Damn, that could be fun.
- Y Kant Alice Read (Novels). I sympathize.
- Read it and weep. Man, this is getting depressing.
- Tachyon on slipstream, steampunk and Disch. “We’re all about niche publishing.”
- The curse/joy of academic interdisciplinarity. “Who’s the future?”
- Finding value in author websites. Like this one?
- Doctorow on writing in the age of distraction. Huh? What was that?
After researching transmedia storyworlds at MIT, guiding Microsoft in its CTO/CXO's think tank, co-founding Microsoft Studios' Narrative Design team, and exploring the future of entertainment and media as the Creative Director and a Research Fellow for USC's Annenberg Innovation Lab, I'm now the Creative Director for USC's World Building Media Lab, a storyteller, a designer, a consultant, and a doctoral student in Media Arts and Practice at USC's School of Cinematic Arts. more »
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