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Monday, June 16, 2003 Writing a book!...get over it...blogging instead Ok, These are the facts being talked again and again: most books are written either by nuts with talents, or nuts without talents. Most of books lose money, frustrates authors and wastes time and money of readers. What should you do when you have unquenchable desire to beat the odds and become part of the culture phenomenon? The answer is go blogging. Tacit Knowledge -- Writing a Book talks a lot of clichés, but there are sparkling moments, such as: “this is a big part of why I generally celebrate digital media -- because the new tools give people from the non-nuts range of humanity a better chance to contribute and take part in the conversation that is "culture." How many such "normal" voices have really been heard in this conversation before? But these days, if you write and publish a blog, for example, the publishing part of blogging is trivial, at least once you've set the blog up (or in the especially inept case of the Blowhards, paid a good webteam to do the hard stuff). You can say what you have to say, press a button -- and what you have to say flies right out there and becomes part of the ongoing culture thing. Never before in the history of blah blah blah. Very cool, in any case, and I'm going to follow how this affects the tone of the culture-conversation with interest. Blogs have already had quite an impact on journalism. What kind of impact will they have on the cultural world? (Huge, I hope.)” posted by lmeimei @10:18 AM| permanent link| | |
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