To hell with established media institutions. They deserve their fate.
by Will on July 2, 2009
Will writes from Washington, D.C. (well, Arlington, Virginia). You can reach him at willblogcorrespondence at gmail dot com.
Over on the Mindless Diversions site...
Our intrepid commenter A Teacher tells the story of how he published his NaNoWriMo book (and, of course, tells us how we can get a copy of it for ourselves). ( 0 comments)
Nobel Peace Prize Jury Faces Formal Inquiry
Read the story here. Here’s the paragraph that would make clicking through worthwhile, if you’re still undecided:
If the Stockholm County Administrative Board, which supervises foundations in Sweden’s capital, finds that prize founder Alfred Nobel’s will is not being honored, it has the authority to suspend award decisions going back three years — though that would be unlikely and unprecedented, said Mikael Wiman, a legal expert working for the county. ( 7 comments)
A Little Side Project of Mine
As if I needed another blog! This one’s dedicated to translating some of the never-before-translated work of the French neo-Romantic poet Edmond Rostand, author of Cyrano de Bergerac and member of the Académie française.
Everyone knows Cyrano, of course, but much of Rostand’s lyric work has never been read in English before. I’m trying to change that, one poem at a time. ( 7 comments)
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Yes, this was not the creative source of revenue I meant in my post. What a joke.
And another thing!
http://www.reason.com/blog/show/134437.html
It seems that when the news are as interested in keeping accurate information from people as they are in giving accurate news to them, you have to ask “is there a pattern for this sort of thing?”
When you see op-eds like Eason Jordan’s, you begin to suspect that, yes, there is.
Give me the new media any day of the week.
Twice on Sunday.
Will, why do you hate the free market?
my favorite part: http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/0709/About_those_access_rates.html?showall
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