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Where have all the student journalists gone? To HuffPo and HubSpot.
But our professor is in another castle: Universities don’t get MOOCs
The blog io9 has an excellent post up about what to do and not to do with Alternate Reality Games (ARGs) and it takes a look at some past successes. I’m a fan of the concept of ARGs and, although it comes down against ARGs, I found this article fascinating.
We’ve been talking lately about short legnth stories in class. I brought up my favorite Hemingway story: “For Sale: Baby Shoes, Never Used” There was some back and forth and when I stumbled across this video I thought of the argument right away. Really though, this is an excuse to talk about the Barnes & […]
Something weird is going on with Sean Sands at The Escapist… either he is having a good deal of fun at everyone’s expense or he may have a split personality. Compare: “Defending the Villain” with “Sink the Pirates” (You can see my comments below the newer one under the name of Phifty) In one article […]
If you’ve been paying attention, I’ve been covering the initial release of Brave Men Run, a novel which first released “in paperback, five formats of e-book free of digital rights management restrictions, and free podcast audiobook (podiobook) editions.” The book was picked up by publishing company Swarm Press and was for sale on Amazon this […]
I’m logged into the USTREAM Feed for Matthew Wayne Selznick’s live coverage of his release of Brave Men Run and it is 1:00PM on Sunday, he’s been live for 3 hours and Brave Men Run is #5 in the Action & Adventure category and #280 overall. This is a pretty remarkable release for this podiobook […]
So, if you listen to podcasts, chances are you’re heard about this already. If you haven’t, here’s the deal: This weekend, podcast publishing gets its first true test. Novel-podcaster Matthew Wayne Selznick has had his “podiobook” book (titled Brave Men Run) picked up by Swarm Press. According to the publisher, and the author himself, this […]
George Mason University’s Fall for the Book 2008 website has gone live! Fall for the Book is GMU’s Book Festival, one of the largest in the country. It goes from September 21st to 26th this year and showcases the work of some of the most fantastic authors around while orchestrating a number of disscussions on […]
I discovered Wordle today, a java app that generates word clouds. I fed my del.ici.us username into it and this is what I got. Pretty cool huh?
