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Being Better Producers

or You Can’t Polish a Turd As publishers, I think we’re picking up some bad habits. Maybe this is partly due to the panic of digitisation – more likely it is due to an increase in competition as producers from people like Amazon and a decrease in disposable income. Whatever the reason, there are a few [ READ MORE ]

Copywhat?

When I was in Melbourne for EWF I stayed with my friend Pat, who makes amazing comics and thinks amazing things, and we had an unexpected formative conversation about copyright when we were eating cheap Japanese under a speaker in the corner that may or may not have been playing Kanye West. Somehow we got [ READ MORE ]

Thoughts From Inside Your Arts Bureaucracy

I just got home from a day helping to select successful applicants to the Write in your Face (WIYF) round of grants offered by Australia Council (OzCo) and administered by Express Media (EM). Those links will tell you more about this whole shebang, but I’ll copy/paste the juicy bit for all our Canadian readers: WIYF grants [ READ MORE ]

Technology in Circles, Slowly Downward

A four year-old iPod is not something anyone can rely on, and, after leaving it in the snow last year then drying it on the radiator, dropping it several hundred times, getting sand in and out of the screen, and more relocations than I can count, it’s not really that surprising that mine’s on the [ READ MORE ]

Wombat Stew – I Mean, Stone Soup!

There’s a magazine that publishes writers even younger than Voiceworks: Stone Soup, published out of Santa Cruz and described by someone as ‘The New Yorker of the 8 to 13 set’. In the interests of SIB’s subtitle, I wonder if they have an adult readership. They reckon their circulation is at 20 000, with library subscriptions [ READ MORE ]

I Don’t Care How Much it Fucking Cost, That Tracksuit Makes you Look Like a Chav.

My whole world at the moment is about marketing. Against my will, it’s become increasingly important to my job and my life. Sales figures, profit margins, the whole lot. I know I might have been pretty critical of the way independent publishers don’t use marketing to their advantage, but the more I learn about it [ READ MORE ]

Online Career Building For Epic Travelling Win!

I just found these two grouse websites, Brazen Careerist and Location Independent Professionals. I’ve been thinking of mobilising Paine Management for some time, and it’s been great to bump into a bunch of like-minded souls: people who want to be financially (and locationally?) independent. Each of them have great blogs – in fact, Brazen Careerist [ READ MORE ]

Lee Siegel Hating On The Internet

I’ve been interested in this guy Lee Siegel lately, since I found his critique of What is the What and the cult subculture that Eggers has spawned with McSweeney’s. This was the first well-considered and in-depth critical review of the whole phenomenon that I had read since feeling awkwardly contrarian in criticising What is the What [ READ MORE ]

Three Degrees of Uncoordination

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