Archive for December, 2009

Youngest Newspaper Publishers Ever?

I got a copy of Harpers Magazine at the airport yesterday. It’s becoming a kind of personal airport tradition: I buy a magazine I wouldn’t normally read and take it with me on the plane, often as my only reading material, so that I’m forced to read it. It’s a good way to learn about a [ READ MORE ]

Have Atchu!

Again with the Monty Python, but this clip illustrates the following post as well as it did the post about my flesh wound: Brian Ward disappeared from Facebook the other day, while we were in the middle of a debate. I was surprised by this, because Brian runs a great-value blog, a lot of which is [ READ MORE ]

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  • December 19th, 2009
  • Posted in News
  • By Ryan

Unfortunately I deleted all of your comments when I was trying to fix a problem the other day. Comments are very important to me at Socratic Ignorance is Bliss, for obvious reasons. Trouble is, my IT department is not very savvy. I will restore the comments, if I have to glue them back on from [ READ MORE ]

It’s Not All About the Money: Legitimising youth literature

An exciting opportunity has come up for young writers at one of Australia’s most prestigious platforms for the discussion of literature, ABC Radio National’s The Book Show. They are looking for five young bloggers to write about book culture on their new blog. I will certainly be applying, and I encourage other young book lovers [ READ MORE ]

Back to Book Making

  • December 15th, 2009
  • Posted in Life
  • By Ryan

In the same week that I gored myself, I accepted a job offer from Wakefield Press. I’m visiting Brisbane for Christmas, then I’ll be heading to Adelaide to resume a seat at my old desk, to make books full time again. I won’t be needing any presents this year. This may come as a surprise to [ READ MORE ]

It’s Just a Flesh Wound

  • December 11th, 2009
  • Posted in Life
  • By Ryan

The last time I wrote about my life I included some comical pictures. This time pictures would be gross, kind of like this: Because two new things happened to me the other day. No, three! One. A doctor had a pair of one-use-only scissors half an inch into the bottom of my foot. Two. Sitting at [ READ MORE ]

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