The New Sleekness

Rearranging deck chairs on the Titanic.

Category: Administrativa

On radio silence.

I’ve been struggling to find the right words to blog about why I haven’t been blogging on here (yeah, how meta is that?) recently, apart from the fact that I’ve really been too busy at orim to do much of anything else; leave it to the formidable Kassia Krozser to sum up my feelings exactly [...]

Growing up with the library

I grew up in the tiny town of Baldwinsville, NY, (pop. 7500), a suburb of Syracuse. It’s best known for, um… well, hmmm… If I ever figure out what it’s known for I’ll get back to you. I think Baldwinsville is one of the original 2 traffic light towns. For me, a recent immigrant to [...]

The Quickest iPad Review You’ll Ever See

Conclusion: Meh. But a slightly-skewing-positive ‘meh’. Post on:

Noise

Introducing guest blogger Jane Litte from Dear Author

So, as some of you may or may not know, Kate Rados and I participate on a weekly discussion webinar, the Digital Book World Roundtable, along with Laura Dawson and Bridget Warren, and moderated by Guy LeCharles González. The webcast happens every Thursday at 1PM EST. For this last one, both Laura and Bridget couldn’t make it, [...]

7×20×21, Book World Pecha Kucha

Last night was the second 7×20×21, which is a lecture series for the book world based on the presentation format Pecha Kucha. I hosted with Guy LeCharles Gonzalez, and we had a great lineup of presenters (including Pablo!). All the speakers from last night have their own sites, so this post is just to provide [...]

Secret Origins.

Well, really, it’s the new, new, New Sleekness. The first New Sleekness was on Blogger, and was essentially a chronicle of the crap I’d find on the web in the mornings, and my commentary on it. The name came from the fact that I had just shaved off my nice, long dreadlocks a few days [...]