{"id":1754,"date":"2009-01-15T08:55:53","date_gmt":"2009-01-15T08:55:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/?p=1754"},"modified":"2009-01-15T08:55:53","modified_gmt":"2009-01-15T08:55:53","slug":"links-list-01-14-09","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/archives\/1754","title":{"rendered":"Links list: 01-14-09."},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.upress.umn.edu\/salecatalog\/CultSt09.html\">Cultural Studies sale.<\/a> Oooh, the good stuff for cheap&#8230;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.26thstory.com\/blog\/2009\/01\/head-butler-jesse-kornbluth-in-the-house.html\">Why magazines are useless.<\/a> Courtesy of HarperStudio&#8217;s 26th Story.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/tiboutoo.blogspot.com\/2009\/01\/expectations-of-monetized-twitter-feed_14.html\">A monetized Twitter feed?<\/a> Interesting concept.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.aber.ac.uk\/media\/Documents\/intgenre\/intgenre.html\">An introduction to genre theory.<\/a> Thanks, Julie!<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/bizbox.slate.com\/blog\/2009\/01\/small_business_salon_doug_seib_1.php\">Doug Seibold on indie publishing.<\/a> <i>Really<\/i> intriguing piece from <i>Slate.<\/i><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/01\/12\/books\/12reading.html?_r=1\">Fiction reading increases for adults.<\/a> Now <i>there&#8217;s<\/i> something you don&#8217;t hear very often.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/media\/2009\/jan\/05\/clay-shirky-future-newspapers-digital-media\">Clay Shirky&#8217;s predictions for 2009.<\/a> &#8220;2009 is going to be a bloodbath.&#8221; Great.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.juliangough.com\/journal\/american-gods-and-london-literary-novelists.html\"><i>American Gods<\/i> and London literary novelists.<\/a> Amen.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/entertainment\/7804693.stm\">Pratchett knighted.<\/a> Sir Terrence of Pratchett!  Huzzah!<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/weirdtales.net\/wordpress\/2009\/01\/02\/neil-gaiman-an-appreciation\"><i>Weird Tales<\/i> appreciates Gaiman.<\/a> Hear, hear.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/artanddesign\/jonathanjonesblog\/2009\/jan\/12\/boccaccio-decameron-credit-crunch\">How Boccaccio would survive the credit crunch.<\/a> Debauchery!<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/2009\/01\/04\/twitter-blog-design\/\">How Twitter will change blog design in &#8217;09.<\/a> On it, thanks.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/danzarrella.com\/tweetbacks-beta.html\">Tweetbacks?<\/a> So it begins.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/technomarketer.typepad.com\/technomarketer\/2009\/01\/the-age-of-facebook-vs-myspace-january-edition.html\">Facebook vs. MySpace: the numbers.<\/a> Mmm, chewy data.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.vogelein.com\/JanerBlog\/2009\/01\/#001060\">Steampunk dangerous to your health?<\/a> Radioactive jewelry = HOT.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.townonline.com\/cambridge\/?p=31212\">Junot Diaz day?<\/a> This is getting surreal.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/theodoragoss.blogspot.com\/2009\/01\/chris-barzaks-question.html\">Goss &#038; Barzak on &#8220;living life to the fullest.&#8221;<\/a> Me, I&#8217;m supersaturated.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/latimesblogs.latimes.com\/jacketcopy\/2009\/01\/how-to-read-462.html\">462 books in 365 days.<\/a> I wonder if I could do that.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/clips.43folders.com\/post\/67856977\/john-cleese-writing\">Eric Idle on John Cleese&#8217;s writing style.<\/a> <i>Hysterical.<\/i><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/doc\/200901\/new-york-times\"><i>The Atlantic<\/i> on the end times of print.<\/a> Yadda, yadda, yadda.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lrb.co.uk\/v31\/n01\/lanc01_.html\"><i>London Review of Books<\/i> on video games.<\/a> Still parsing this one.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.salon.com\/books\/review\/2009\/01\/05\/Mark_bittman\/\">Salon on Bittman.<\/a> God, I love The Minimalist.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/redcrowkater.livejournal.com\/33867.html\">Juggling work and writing.<\/a> Well&#8230;  <i>Kinda.<\/i><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/boltcity.com\/?article=340\">Kazu Kibuishi finishes <i>Amulet 2.<\/i><\/a>  Woot!<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2008\/11\/30\/opinion\/30gleick.html?pagewanted=all\"><i>NYT:<\/i> How to publish without perishing.<\/a> &#8220;The book is like a hammer.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/blackholly.livejournal.com\/116915.html\"><i>Geektastic!<\/i><\/a> Damn, what a lineup!<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/powazek.com\/posts\/1646\">Powazek: Ignore the content.<\/a> The new Clute-less Sci-Fi Wire still sucks.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/28661103\/\">RIP Ricardo Montalban.<\/a> <i>Khaaaan!<\/i><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/whatever.scalzi.com\/2009\/01\/14\/one-of-my-big-announcements-for-january\/\">Scalzi goes through the Stargate.<\/a> <i>Eeeeeen<\/i>-teresting.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/windling.typepad.com\/blog\/2009\/01\/i-was-disheartened-to-learn-that-st-martins-press-has-pulled-the-plug-on-the-years-best-fantasy-and-horror-volume-21-publi.html\"><i>TYBF&#038;H<\/i> is no more.<\/a> Damn, first Endicott and now this.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/mg20126905.600-the-rise-and-fall-of-the-metal-airship.html\">Rise and fall of the metal airship.<\/a> See above re: steampunk.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/money.cnn.com\/2009\/01\/02\/news\/newsmakers\/siklos_eisner.fortune\/index.htm\"><i>Fortune:<\/i> Iger rocks Disney.<\/a> I&#8217;ve been impressed so far.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.genreality.net\/\">GENREALITY.<\/a> Watch this space.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mcqn.net\/mcfilter\/archives\/computers\/barcamp_liverpool_getting_started_with_arduino_how_to_build_a_twittermonitoring_alertuino.html\">Getting started with Arduino.<\/a> Things to tinker with someday #522.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tor.com\/index.php?option=com_content&#038;view=blog&#038;id=11469\">Kleptoplasty.<\/a> I need to remember this for rewriting <i>Green.<\/i><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sff.net\/Paradise\/apply.htm\">Viable Paradise writer&#8217;s workshop.<\/a> Damn, that could be fun.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/alicerobison.org\/?p=144\">Y Kant Alice Read (Novels).<\/a> I sympathize.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.salon.com\/books\/feature\/2008\/12\/23\/publishing\/\">Read it and weep.<\/a> <i>Man,<\/i> this is getting depressing.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/io9.com\/5122501\/tachyons-jacob-weisman-talks-steampunk-slipstream-and-thomas-disch\">Tachyon on slipstream, steampunk and Disch.<\/a> &#8220;We&#8217;re all about niche publishing.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/archives\/2005\/05\/07\/identity_crisis_the_cursejoy_of_being_interdisciplinary_and_the_future_of_academia.html\">The curse\/joy of academic interdisciplinarity.<\/a> &#8220;Who&#8217;s the future?&#8221;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.publishersweekly.com\/article\/CA6622225.html?nid=3329\">Finding value in author websites.<\/a> Like this one?<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.locusmag.com\/Features\/2009\/01\/cory-doctorow-writing-in-age-of.html\">Doctorow on writing in the age of distraction.<\/a> Huh?  What was that?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cultural Studies sale. Oooh, the good stuff for cheap&#8230; Why magazines are useless. Courtesy of HarperStudio&#8217;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&#8217;s something you don&#8217;t hear very often. 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