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Wed, 06/03/2009 - 14:30 — johnso73

So, I've been giving love to the um... backend of this site far more regularly than to the whole 'content generation' aspect. Thems the breaks, I suppose, when time is limited.

But, lucky for the interweb, that doesn't mean I've not been listening to or reading about interesting things. Plus, have a few bits of good news to share about myself, too.

I'll try to clip off the easy things here.

  • On May 1st, Guernica published my short story, Anaphylaxis (yeah, the one that I'm now interested in exploring as a collaborative text). They are a tremendous magazine, with lots of really well written and smart content. Why they published me, I couldn't tell you. I recommend checking them out, not just for my story, but for blogs by people like Robert Reich. (A point of pride to say I shared a venue with him, even an email newsletter.) Esquire also named them as one of the top five places for fiction online.

    So: Yay for me. Also, was awarded a Sappenfield Fellowship from the Universtiy of Wisconsin-Milwaukee for general admiration of my work. Also, received a Teaching Assistant position for next year.

    • Digital Stories

    Mon, 01/12/2009 - 19:27 — johnso73

    Discussed:

    BBC's Digital Planet discusses a South African mobile web app story serialization project.

    NPR's All Things Considered compiled a story about the "wovel", which is, in essence, a roughly interactive serialization of a novel on a blog or on the web (web + novel = wovel).

    books: the old-fashion way

    Fri, 09/19/2008 - 23:10 — johnso73

    Thanks to the Jordanian for this film:

    Printing a Book, Old School from Armin Vit on Vimeo.

    (Are those scribes picketing in the background?)

    Re-Death of the Paper Book

    Mon, 09/15/2008 - 12:23 — johnso73

    From NYMag, via Gawker

    More howling about the death of the printed book. Which may have died over three thousand times already.

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