Crowd-sourced Programming
Crowdsourcing!
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In the DIY spirit of Format and the one-day literary festival I’m programming for them, I’m posting prospective blurb titles for the events I’m thinking of running on the day, and I want you to write the blurb you think I should run with it. Hopefully some panel ideas will come out of it, and you’ll be keen to host the discussion. I’m also running this as a meme, and have tagged: Connor Tomas O’Brien (not to be confused with the drastically oceanic Connor Tomas), George Dunford, Estelle Tang, Elena Gomez and Lisa Dempster, who directed the Academy this year and is now running Emerging Writers’ Festival.
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The Blurb Titles
Activism Smells
Copy Left, Right, Left, Right, What?
How to Sell Out Without Losing Your Cred
Miles, Miles, Who the Fuck is Miles?
The Future of Adulthood
Honk if You’re the Publishing Industry
Why Isn’t Writing More Like, Say, Mining?
Where Can We Go From Here?
I Write, Therefore I am a …
Fulture-cunding Vultures
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Why isn’t writing more like, say, mining?
Hilarious.
Posting something about copyright any minute, but I think writers need to think about how they’re giving away their digital rights.
Definitely! Considering contracts seem to be as rare as hens teeth (more rare, even, than getting paid), it’s not surprising that many writers (especially young and/or emerging writers) don’t actually know what rights they’re selling or giving away for free. Would love to hear your thoughts on it.
Young people are ignorant. The only thing in their lives that is important to them is their phone. When I was in Verizon the other day, they asked me for my social security number to buy a device (for the Internet). I said, “I’m making a purchase and you’re selling air. I’m not giving you my social security number. I have a right to privacy when it comes to my social security number.” The young man behind the counter replied, “You do? I didn’t know that.” People, wake up!
I would rather be ignorant than grumpy.
Another thing. Social networking is a scam. I know of a company in Old Town in Alexandria, Virginia that creates “social networking” modules for companies and it has this lug in the back room making up IDs for them. When I asked him, “Hey. Are you OK with this?” His response, “Not really.” A job is a job is a job… but social networking is a scam. Don’t buy in to the soc of social.