Posts Tagged ‘ ethical consumerism ’

Retaining Copyright

Think that Copyleft sounds like a shitty socialist pun? You’d be dead right. But it’s a socialism of ideas, and isn’t that shitty… kinda. In essence, Copyleft says two heads are better than one, and what’s in my head might do just as well to be in your head, and really we should just work [ READ MORE ]

Bricks and Bullshit

Buying books from Waterstones is ideologically similar to buying organic items at Tesco – it’s better than some of the alternatives (ie: Amazon), but I can’t feel as smug as I might if I bought from an independent. Still, there’s so much doom and gloom in the industry news at the moment following the Red [ READ MORE ]

If:book Essay: You’re the Voice

If:book Australia is a think-and-do tank dedicated to promoting ‘new forms of digital literature’ and exploring ‘ways to boost connections between writers and audiences’, which is more exciting than I can fully express. They are associated with the Institute for the Future of the Book in New York, and if:book London, and are based at Queensland Writers’ [ READ MORE ]

Paranoid About Facebook

I'm spurning Facebook as much as I can now, and this post explains why, as well as how else I'll share the information I so love, in case you're interested in following that trail, in the blessedly ad hoc fashion we peruse the internet[ READ MORE ]

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TINA was on this weekend. TINA, or This is Not Art, is a festival for independent, emerging and experimental art, based in Newcastle, New South Wales. The festival is made up of other festivals, of which I am most closely involved with National Young Writers’ Festival (NYWF). What happens at NYWF is a whole bunch of [ READ MORE ]

Ethics of Publishing

Something that especially inspires me about the young people I know in publishing is that they are, mostly, and for want of a better word, ’social justice natives’. Perhaps not in the strong sense that today’s teenagers are ‘digital natives’ compared to people my age, who can remember a time before computers could be bought [ READ MORE ]

Sans-Bratwurst Blues

A couple of months ago I was hungover and hungry and I’d just woken up at Ronnie’s place. For ages it’s been something of a personal hangover ritual of mine to make it to the Queen Vic Markets, which are right near his apartment, and get a bratwurst. These are not just any bratwurst – they’re thick, [ READ MORE ]

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