🔖 Read
Why No One Clicked on the Great Hypertext Story wired.com
Read: www.wired.com
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A Beginner’s Guide to Writing IP in Publishing — ERIC SMITH ericsmithrocks.com
Read: www.ericsmithrocks.com
Awesome blog post from Eric Smith full of helpful information.
Being active in the spaces you want to write about, helps build your profile and helps get you seen.
Friends, I cannot stress the importance of community in the bookish and writerly space.
Want to read: A Life of One’s Own: Nine Women Writers Begin Again by Joanna Biggs 📚
Want to read: Saving Time by Jenny Odell 📚
Want to read: The Magician’s Daughter by H. G. Parry 📚
Ah yes, that weird need-to-cry, don’t-know-why feeling… (I suspect this is about the fact that the amount of stuff you have when traveling expands to fill the luggage available.)
Scenes I want to explore more: TTRPGs, literary (incl but not limited to sff). What pubs, websites, podcasts, people, other stuff should I check out?
🗨️ My response to Kottke.org Is 25 Years Old Today and I’m Going to Write About It
Happy anniversary, Jason! Is the font on that Notes entry Tahoma or Verdana? I’m having some big early blogging nostalgia looking at it.
I love what you say about the kottke.org being a process. I got the web only a little while before you started kottke.org. I was 14 or 15 and I’ll be 42 this year. Since I first opened up Netscape (after my dad, who ran IT for Duke Law School, told me that Prodigy and AOL were a waste of my time and the web is where it’s at), the web has been a key piece of my identity development and construction.
Here’s to 25 more years or as many as you would like, if that’s too many.
📺 Shrinking is doing a great job dressing a teen in 90s throwback clothes and if y’all see me walking around in overalls with one side undone now you know why. THIS IS OUR MOMENT, XENNIALS, find a grown-up way to wear the clothes you loved as a teen!
hey hey you know how that moral philosopher profiled in the New Yorker would solve the trolley problem? whichever way would give her the most material for her next book