May 27
- I’ve been following the thoughts of Warren Ellis and Cory Doctorow on the topic of new media publishing for quite some time. I now link to Ellis’ ponderings on Burst Culture mostly so I can refer back to it later. Perhaps the most notable thought: attention span isn’t dead, or else J.K. Rowling wouldn’t be filthy rich by writing paperbricks. It’s just that the web itself isn’t conducive to attention span.
- I’m only about 20 pages into Stumbling on Happiness by Daniel Gilbert, and while I’m not sure whether Gilbert is British, in my head the book reads in a British accent. Why? Because it reads so much like Douglas Adams — in tone and in subject matter, minus the silly aliens — that I can hear Simon Jones doing the narration.
