November 2011
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“What this all means is, if you can put a humiliatingly personal essay behind the...”
– Infinite Lives » On writing for print
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Dummy content you can type with your left hand
irondavy:
So you can keep clicking with the right hand.
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Caged rats get free water!
Stewardesses dread reggae barf
Sad serfs serve sad cabbage
Vests are cravats! we assert
Cave scarabs scare savages
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"How I automated my writing career"
Robbie Allen writes this on O’Reilly Radar, concerning Automated Insights, a company that generates news stories about sporting events:
A common, and funny, question I get from journalists is: “when will you automate me out out of a job?” I find the question humorous because built into the question is the assumption that if our software can write the perfect story on a...
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“Oh yes, the sentence. That’s what we call it when we put someone in jail.”
– Robert Creeley on the sentence
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Amazon Launching E-Book Lending Library - WSJ.com →
Amazon Prime subscribers with a Kindle device can “borrow” (i.e., read without paying for) one title at a time, from a catalog of 5000 books. Some publishers are being paid as if each “borrowed book” is a sale; others are being paid a flat fee. I’m very interested to see how this goes. Could this be a successful model for smaller publishers, or authors that...
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