October 2009
3 posts
thoughts on tumblr 10.23.09
I only joined this space a couple of days ago, on the recommendation of a co-worker at our digital shop. It trumps Facebook and Twitter, I must say, and a bunch of disparate blogs. Or, rather each of these has their purpose Yet one imagines that these places on the web will one day coalesce (perhaps not too far in the future) into “an” entity. Rather like using the telephone, writing...
Nobody reads anymore. Toothpaste anyone?
I was talking with a literary agent friend in New York yesterday. He was lamenting that the publishing industry “is flat.” Talking about Kindel, etc. Also, since he’s a news hound, and reads the Times, WSJ, Financial Times, et al, he was worried about where the great journalists are going to be in a few years. How will we get in-depth coverage when the mainstream newspapers die?...
My advice for 10.20.2009
Make one of your goals in life to be dangerously well informed.