From the monthly archives:

January 2009

Time for a poetry publishers’ co-op?

January 13, 2009

Graham Nunn at Another Lost Shark has been doing a fascinating series of interviews with various Australian small press poetry publishers. There’s an interesting array of opinions here, some consensus but also a lot of divergence on issues such as the value of electronic publishing and the commercial opportunities for small presses. Small presses have [...]

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Alphabet Soup 11-Jan-09

January 11, 2009

I’ve been too busy with Clarion South to be able to write longer posts, so here’s a round-up of a few interesting tidbits I’ve seen around the interwebs lately. Winnie the Pooh to the Rescue Apparently a Pooh sequel is in development. PersonaNonData quotes a Times article: “Michael Brown, for the trustees who manage the affairs [...]

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Living in the Age of Metaphor

January 9, 2009

Kevin Kelly has a fascinating piece on The Technium about the ways we create and interact with things “as if” they are real, propelling metaphor towards reality. In this way the role and power of metaphor is rising in our culture. Our modern digital world is a metaphoric world. We make things real by first [...]

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Apple has half the mobile web

January 8, 2009

Another reason for publishers to stop getting tunnel vision about the Kindle. ReadWriteWeb reports on data from AdMob showing that Apple has a 48% market share of the mobile web in the US market. Interestingly, the iPod Touch has contributed as much to this growth as the iPhone. As RWW rightly points out, this demonstrates [...]

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Flash forward

January 8, 2009

Jetse de Vries has established a picofiction anthology on Twitter to showcase optimistic science fiction. Submission guidelines here. OUTSHINE, the resulting weekly Twitterzine, to be published here!

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