Hustler of Culture
Because I’ve decided you all need even more of me here at WTS, I’m contemplating doing some audio blogging. Trouble is, I know zilch about microphones, sound quality, or any of that mishigas.
Let’s start simple: Does anyone use a microphone to record their own voice on their computer? Because that’s all I need to do right now. If you do, what model would you recommend?
It’s me interviewed in the South by Southwest Tech Report. Wowee.
Whose going to be there next year?
So this here blog is #33 on Daypop’s Top 40 Links for today. Anybody know what that means? Or how it happened?
Central Booking was just chosen as a featured site in the Librarians Index to the Internet. Can I tell you how much I LOVE Librarians?
There’s a video floating around of the SXSW 2001 Internet Roast produced and conceived by my friend Heather Gold. I’m the last storyteller, about six minutes in.
Look Ma, I’m in the Detroit News!
Hey. I was interviewed on Slack Street Radio about books and the web, the demise of Oprah’s Book Club, and, eh, broccoli.
The San Francisco Chronicle published my long-ago review of Douglas Coupland’s new novel, All Families are Psychotic, on Sunday. Yay!
Blogging from my temporary office deep within the womb of The Grotto. How rebellious.
I found out earlier this week that John, the editor at MySimon whom hired me, has been laid off. He feels ok about it. Me, I’ll miss our excellent editor/writer relationship and the painfully easy money.
Which is how my last assignment, a no-thought Holiday Gift Guide, should have gone. Instead I spent an entire afternoon bickering with myself over whether Nick Hornby will be mad at me because I put How to Be Good as only the 6th best book to give this yuletide.
It was already dark when I finished.
I used to do this sort of foolish perfectionism in high school. It still takes a lot of reminders to keep me from doing it now.