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Tuesday, April 19, 2005



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The Blog, The Press, The Media: Pitfalls & Pavlov Dogs

There are many pitfalls in a literary career, including convincing folks you have one. Writers, like Pavlov’s dogs, actually do learn, and after jettisoning all that romantic baggage that books are about what’s between the pages, they see with clear eyes the genius of the marketplace. The book business has never been more about moving units, though hawking novels, even the big ones, can be much harder than selling wet dog turds


Literary Sharecropper - The perilous life of a novelist [The Web is old, the Web is new, the Web is all, the Web is you Social Bookmarking Tools (I) ; Persian Blogs and Bakhtinian Dialogues. Of Blogs and Dialogues ]
• · Personas and fictional blogs ; In Defense of Character Blogs; Debating the merits of blogging: Blogging: a head to head debate
• · · Gates Says Most Businesses will Blog ; Blog culture invades academia
• · · · Average Joe: Book publisher blog ; The Blogosphere: Insiders vs. Outsiders
• · · · · Sue Javes reveals the demons and ambitions of radio's bad boy, Kyle Sandilands. Shock Waves ; My Bias for Mainstream News
• · · · · · Just how concerned about Google and other new technologies should academic librarians be? Google: Friend or Foe? ; Is Cheap Broadband Un-American? ; Telecom Companies Versus Communities