10 Million and 40 Characters
Some of my old MintJelly blog posts now seem incredibly long to my twitter-constrained eyes.
Even my titles were long! Hilarious.
“Grumpy IT Guy Responds to Your Articles about Electronic Publishing” addresses the perception problems tech people, and technology itself has in the book industry, and reminds everyone how well we’re already getting along.
“Book Expo America Needs to be Like Nerd Prom” highlights some critical differences between BEA and the wildly popular geek-fest ComicCon. Lance Fensterman, organizer of BEA and the NYC ComicCon loved it, so that makes me happy. He’s making good changes.
“Fauxcabulary Lessons (on curating, crowdsourcing, and not totally failing)” was appreciated by my artist friends as much as by my digital publishing friends. It’s about a very small project that allowed for a lot of big thinking.
“The Disinitermediation Era and the ELO” grapples with all sorts of things you might be thinking about…
… especially if, like me, you’ve become a bit obsessed with the question of who owns what pieces of information (publishers? google? authors/musicians/artists?), what happens between creator and audience, and what happens to the creation once it’s out in the world for a while. How can people get paid for their work, and how can they share, gain, or provide some sort of larger benefit through their work?
