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Thirteen ways of looking at Jeff Bezos 15 Aug 2013 | 11:14 am
Some of you are saying “just thirteen?” and others of you are saying “AUGHHH I’ve already seen thirty-teen opinion pieces about Jeff Bezos buying the Washington Post and nobody KNOWS anythng, just mak...
Don’t look under that rock 10 Aug 2013 | 06:24 am
I just logged into Snarkmarket’s sadly-neglected WordPress dashboard here and found the customary two dozen spam comments waiting in the filter to be flushed. It reminded me of a story scrap I jotted ...
The true web 13 Jun 2013 | 01:01 am
I love the sentiment in this short post from Russell Davies. Okay, it’s not even a post; more of a wave from across the street, or a high-five in passing: I love blogging without tweeting about it. I...
Multifarious Matt 31 May 2013 | 09:28 pm
Did you know that Matt Thompson, besides launching groundbreaking projects (ho-hum), sometimes writes articles and even talks about summer blockbusters on NPR podcasts?? Me neither!
All systems operational 30 May 2013 | 02:45 am
Hello. Just checking to make sure WordPress is actually still up and running over here. IT LIVES.
Worldbuilding and world-extending: Discoveries and questions 11 Apr 2013 | 06:11 pm
I kicked off this week with a big, messy post about, basically, fan fiction. Now that I’ve talked it through a bit with my incredible fellow seminarians, I think my questions boil down to: What are th...
Worldbuilding: Mutual Acts of Creation #SnarkmarketSeminar 8 Apr 2013 | 05:51 am
This entry begins my week in the Snarkmarket Seminar, but even if you’re not a seminarian, you should feel welcome to comment here! Transcript: Hello. I’ve dubbed my lecture in our ongoing Snarkmark...
What are lectures for? 30 Jan 2013 | 09:27 am
This is correct: The core purpose of a great lecturer is not primarily to transmit information… The real purpose of a lecture is to show the mind and heart of the lecturer at work, and to engage the ...
Typing in the dark 21 Jan 2013 | 10:35 am
Love this: INTERVIEWER Were you actually typing in the dark? NICHOLSON BAKER: Yes. I had a couple different laptops because they were not all that dependable, and one of them had a slider bar. I cou...
Divine geometry 5 Jan 2013 | 11:47 pm
This blows my mind: In North America, some Muslims pray to the northeast, in the direction of the great-circle route (the shortest path along the planet’s surface) to Mecca, whereas others pray to th...
