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Digital Decade: The Writing Community

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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Digital Decade: How We Watch

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 […]

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Old Media Meets the New Frontier

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 […]

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Friends, Get a Feed

Tuesday, April 7, 2009

Facebook is all last week, destroyed by the new design (whine, whine, complain, complain).  Twitter has sucked as all in and is now sucking up all our time and still we love it.  But there’s a new(ish) kid in town.  An old pal who’s done a redesign.
I believe it is time for everyone to get […]

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