asking questions and discovering how little I know
From the monthly archives:
There’s a guy. A writer. He goes by the name of Alexander McCall Smith. You can read about him here (the CBC Web site) – Automated Storyteller: The curse of the prolific author. It appears I’m not the only person who has noticed this guy doesn’t just write. He writes a lot. And I can’t [...]
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Over at Brandshift John Winsor has an item called Unbrand! (also at Beyond the Brand) – prompted by an article by William Safire titled Brand. The essence of it all is the word itself and its variations, which are being beaten into the ground. It’s being used everywhere by everyone for just about everything. Some [...]
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I see the change on Amazon.com books that I mentioned in Amazon tests a more "in your face" approach was, as I suspected, only a little kite they were flying to test the waters. (How’s that for a mixing of cliche metaphors?) Every so often Amazon does this. They put a change online, gather some [...]
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Most people don’t like change – I certainly don’t. Even when it’s good, I tend to resist it. So when I saw what they’re testing out on Amazon.com books I found it really annoying. (A look at the same example on their Canadian site, Amazon.ca books, shows generally what it was like before.) This isn’t [...]
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This is more or less what I’ve wanted to write for quite a while: Metacrap. No need to now that its on Strange Attractor. I just sometimes feel a little overwhelmed when I go into Bloglines or FeedDemon and see gazillions of posts and find most of them … well, not terribly compelling. (Not that [...]
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Wired had this item: Video Shills for Literary Stars. The upside of this is that authors and publishers are using technology and making an effort at being a bit innovative in their marketing. (The industry has always struck me as being somewhat luddite so this is a good sign to me.) On the other hand, [...]
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Because I have something of an obsession with wind and weather, I recently read Scott Huler’s Defining the Wind : The Beaufort Scale, and How a 19th-Century Admiral Turned Science into Poetry. It turns out to be an interesting, if somewhat eccentric, study of making something useable. If nothing else, the book illustrates how the [...]
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I'm Bill Wren, a writer-editor, social media enthusiast in Fredericton, New Brunswick. And that would be my dog, Molly Bloom, as a logo in the header.
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