Tuesday, December 29, 2009
Technology has affected writers in the last 10 years. In my last post, I talked about viewing habits. Today, I’m going to look at some of the other digital developments and how they affected us.
Blogs
Although blogs have been around since the mid-90s, free blogging services that made it possible for anyone to blog easily arrived […]
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Monday, December 28, 2009
2010 is a milestone. As a writer, my major objection to the first decade of the century has been about naming it. I hate the way this sounds:
The first decade of the two thousands.
On the hand, this rolls off the fingertips:
The first decade of the nineteen hundreds
But other than that, these last ten years have […]
Tuesday, September 15, 2009
I got very excited reading the transcript of Liesl Copland’s keynote speech to Sunday’s Doc Conference at the Toronto International Film Festival. Copland is an executive at William Morris Endeavor’s Global Finance & Distribution Group and a former Netflix employee. Her speech was — on the surface — about the future of the specialty film […]
