On The Job Board: Here Is A Job!
tumblr is looking for a dev: http://www.tumblr.com/jobs/web-app-developer
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On The Question That Confronts Every New Yorker Eventually
As someone who cried on the train this very morning, I say LOOK AWAY. Let the criers cry!
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On Bob Miller: HarperStudio Was a Failure
Exactly. That richard nash talk was the first sensical, exciting, manic episode-inducing thing i had seen/read about publishing in a long time.
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On Bob Miller: HarperStudio Was a Failure
"we just can't go on if we remember the past and look at the odds"
LOL OMG RED FLAG!
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On Bob Miller: HarperStudio Was a Failure
and in this situation taking that financial risk means taking a smaller advance and a bigger chunk of royalties. that doesn't mean "meh, i have a shit ton of $$, I don't care." It means, "I believe in my work. It is good. I want it in the world."
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On Bob Miller: HarperStudio Was a Failure
ME TOO.
The idea should be to give people who understand the shitty grave the publishing world has dug for itself and who want to take the risk anyway-- who are willing to basically take that financial risk along with the publisher because they believe in their work and in books, not so that they can quit their day jobs.
bob miller basically took an opportunity and went at it the worst way possible. doesn't mean it's a bad model. i mean, it's probably still bad but it is marginally better. Heh.
But Nash is the best.
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On 'Glee': I'm Dumb But I'm Not Stupid
Wow, egg on your face, Halle.
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On BTW, While You Were Being Selfish And Goal-Oriented Your Eggs Were Dying
All the sincere, anecdotal evidence-oriented responses to this make me uncomfortable :(
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On The Wonderful, Evil Print-On-Demand Book Machine Arrives in Manhattan
I've seen the books that thing makes. It ain't VIRTUALLY INDISTINGUISHABLE. It's sorta fun to print out really old random catalogs and stuff like that, but whatever is in there is in Google Books, right? And then you find yourself using the Google Books archive to search for things and blog them and in one sense it's the best of both worlds (I guess) (being, you get to hold the thing and then roll over and hit ctrl+F on your keyboard) but you can't help but think this whole thing was thought up by someone who doesn't really Get It and it's kind of some weird in-between thing for all the people who don't have e-readers (myself included, but). Also that's not even touching on all of the implications of, here is a fancy xerox machine! Print a book!"--both empowering and devaluing, blah blah blah. It's just kind of...silly? But fun silly! Like having one of those antique popcorn making machines at the movie theater just to stand around and take iPhone pictures of it.