Posts Tagged ‘ The Internet ’

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 ]

Lock In, But Not In the Cool Way Like at a Video Arcade

[I've been meaning to post this for a while. I've been hesitating because it feels unfinished, but I now think that's because the central idea is going to need a long time, and many posts, to percolate into anything really coherent. Consider this a disclaimer or an invitation, however you prefer to see it. Sorry [ READ MORE ]

Optimism is Compulsory

This article on Dave Eggers’ optimism about youth literacy and print books (via @Mean_land) made me think of the title of his unfinished Salon.com serial, The Unforbidden is Compulsory, or, Optimism: for Eggers, it would seem, optimism about print books is compulsory, and should not be forbidden. Elsewhere (almost everywhere else), it seems the trend is [ READ MORE ]

A World Without Agency

I was doing a bit of internet stalking the other day and came across this article by Rjurik Davidson about creative writing courses and so forth. It’s an interesting read, but there was one line in particular that hit out at me from a guy he interviewed (Errol). [I]n the 1970s, there was a much smaller [ READ MORE ]

Facebook’s Advertisers

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 ]

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 ]

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 ]

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 ]

Twitter I Love You, But You’re Freaking Me Out!

Dear Twitter, What we had was thrilling for a while, but then it got lame. I’m sorry – it’s not you, it’s everyone else. You gave me the confidence to publish longer blog posts at Socratic Ignorance is Bliss, but there’s something … something about you that makes me feel squeamish now. I know, that’s rough, but I [ READ MORE ]

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