February 2010
33 posts
“Good fiction writing does not happen on command: When I’m on deadline for a Wall...”
– Nonfiction and Fiction Writing – Worlds Apart - Stepcase Lifehack
January 2010
70 posts
“DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — The city with the world’s tallest...”
– Bloomingdale’s Dubai Opens: First International Store
“Will the spread of tablets save struggling media companies? Sadly not. Some...”
– Tablet computing: The book of Jobs | The Economist
Mac OS X users who wish to disable Flash by default: http://clicktoflash.com/ Highly recommended. (via @gruber)
dougist.com » About →
I re-did all the static and about pages on dougist.com (Jesh what a crap load of work…)
“Don’t call it a Kindle killer. Books on iPad will probably be more...”
– Apple iPad Just Tried To Assassinate the Computer - apple ipad - Gizmodo
DDB: e-ink will still be the text of choice for serious reading. But not for cookbooks, comic books, or how to books…which are a huge part of the dead tree market. If you’re a LitFic reader you’re going to...
dougist.com » Reading List →
My idiosyncratic and incomplete reading list is posted as a page on Dougist. Follow the link above.
““The decision I took - and frankly would take again - was if there was any...”
– Iraq inquiry: Tony Blair insists he did not deceive the nation - Telegraph
dougist.com » Chameleon In Chief →
How could I have said such bad things about President Obama? How could I have said he was the leader of the grow-the-government-at-all-costs liberal wing of the Democratic Party? How could I, like Charlie Krauthammer use the term Social Democrat, even when others were using the more pejorative Socialist? How could I have ever suspected that by taking over the auto industry, trying to take over the...
dougist.com » My policy on email →
I get a lot of email, I mean a lot — not as much as I did when I was in commerce, but still what could justifiably be called a deluge. Some if it is of my own making, most is not. Almost all of it demands a thoughtful reply, and each reply takes, for me at least, emotional energy, if the response is going to be more than the web 2.0 version of a grunt.
In addition to the volume of mail I get,...
“Future generations of American progressives, if there are any, will shake their...”
– Breaking News and Opinion on The Huffington Post
The new category
DDB: The best way to describe the iPad is as a Consumption Device. The iPhone is a communication device, and Macbooks/iMacs are information production devices. The iPad is designed for the consumer to take in media and information, to interact with it in light way. I like what David Carr (NYT) said that is was like a window to the applications, the hardware is transparent.
“More than 75 million people already know how to use the iPad, Mr. Jobs says —...”
– Live Blogging the iPad Product Announcement - Bits Blog - NYTimes.com
“Mr. Jobs has put an Amazon.com Kindle on the stage and says Amazon has done a...”
– Live Blogging the iPad Product Announcement - Bits Blog - NYTimes.com
RT @jessegrosjean: TaskPaper for iPhone 1.0 feature complete. Now bug fixes and documentation, then ready for release.
RT @melvillehouse: Better late than never! Melville House is having an event tomorrow night at 7 p.m. with 8 authors speaking on Ebooks. …
RT @DaringFirefeed: McGraw-Hill CEO Confirms That Tablet Is iPhone OS Based: That’s a good way to get taken off Steve Jobs’s Christmas.. …
RT @al3x: My biggest hope for tomorrow’s Apple announcement: that whatever new thing they have to sell isn’t something I want to buy. #n …
““I’m not going to reveal any names, but I have it on very good...”
– Joe Wikert’s Kindleville Blog: All Kindle, All the Time
…quote from a recent blog post — re-published by the Huffington Post — by tech blogger J.S. McDougall
“Michael Steele responded to the spending freeze announcement with the best...”
– State of the Union - The Arena | POLITICO.COM
“President Obama also cannot afford an open battle with liberals. It could leave...”
– When liberals revolt - CNN.com
“ Blogging is not writing,” the author of You Are Not a Gadget Jaron Lanier...”
– Modite by Rebecca Thorman | Career and Life Advice | Design and Style Picks | A Generation Y Blog
“I was in a bar with a fantasy novelist having a few drinks. We got to the point...”
– Salon.com Politics | The Salon Interview: Neal Stephenson
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“Writing novels is hard, and requires vast, unbroken slabs of time. Four quiet...”
– Bad Correspondent
Why Neal Stephenson doesn’t interact with readers, answer email or attend conferences.
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melissa:
A midnight swim alone under palms with Nina Simone playing. Taking home a perfectly trashy fancy dress. (To debut at a Very Special Reading tk.) Passionfruit ceviche. Caffe con leche and Lorrie Moore. Licking the bottom of my tongue with my tongue because I strained it. Maybe again. Still loving my breasts. Graceful swoops of neon in pink. Architecture quite like breasts. Pages of all...
Says @hardymacia “I’m now part owner Block Gallery & Coffeehouse - your coffee stop in Winooski, VT. We opened on Friday.”
““And the Democrats are delusional: Scott Brown won by running against...”
– Charles Krauthammer - What Scott Brown’s win means for the Democrats - washingtonpost.com
and
RealClearPolitics - The Meaning of Brown
“Here’s why it’s hard to see anything positive coming out of this...”
– Daily Kos: State of the Nation
“Craig (Charney), at the moment of one of the greatest Democratic electoral...”
– Dear Rahm: About Massachusetts… - The Arena | POLITICO.COM
dougist.com » Justus Rosenberg on rescuing victims... →
DDB: I studied linguistics under Dr. Rosenberg at The New School in the Fall of 2008. This video talks about his heroics in France as a young man.
“Democrats Stunned by Rebuke to Party”
– The New York Times - Breaking News, World News & Multimedia
DDB: Yes - that was the headline, that’s what it really said… I posted this because when they start breathing again over at the Times I’m sure they will change it to something less narrative busting.
New page on my writing development
dougist.com » Writing
DDB: I wrote and posted a new page on how my writing program is going.
Notational Velocity – Show in Finder →
Kickstarter →
kickstarter is a funding platform for artists, designers, filmmakers, musicians, journalists, inventors, explorers…
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“Amazon.com has been pushing publishers to release new books in hardcover and in...”
– Kindle fans punish book that delayed digital edition
Book Blogger Convention →
New Text File Here →
malumelegans:
About a week ago, Federico Viticci of MacStories asked whether there was a tool to create a text file in the current Finder folder. I threw something together based on Marc Liyanage’s Open Terminal Here applescript. Long story short, it was a piece of crap but it got picked up by Download Squad and eventually by LifeHacker.
Since it seems there’s some interest in this kind of...
“New Text File Here
About a week ago, Federico Viticci of MacStories asked...”
– New Text File Here
RT @chelseagsummers: I’m weary of being a lone voice in the ungrammatical wilderness. I understand and appreciate style, but ignorance tastes like Herpes.
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“HOW TO BECOME A WRITER by Lorrie Moore
First, try to be something, anything,...”
– How to Become a Writer
(DDB: an SLU grad makes good)
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Sounds about right
merlin:
indefensible:
I don’t know how anybody with a remotely high profile on the internet stops themselves from climbing to the top of a tall building to pick people off with a marksman’s rifle…. […] It’s been a small dirty window to internet fame.
Thing is: the internet’s made of IP addresses, opinions, and assholes. It’s what’s there. That’s the basic equipment.
A short course on...
“You have been told that real life is not like college and you have been...”
– Meryl Streep (via nancysun)
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Flarf Vs Conceptual Writing
- WNYC Culture →
Flarf Vs Conceptual Writing
“Goldsmith describes the new works as responses to our digital age, a “poetics of flux, celebrating instability and uncertainty.”
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“The Disneyland of spa resorts is right in our own backyard. From the outside,...”
– Spa Castle: A Tour Through Sauna Valley - WNYC Culture
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“Since it was built in 1952, the United Nations complex has been the flagship of...”
– The United Nations’ Extreme Makeover - WNYC Culture
