An interview with Chicago author Megan Stielstra about Times Are Tough All Over, her story and website that documents how people are coping and making ends meet during the recession. Read more »
In the latest entry in our Shareable Futures sci-fi series, Douglas Rushkoff envisions a future in which technology is a partner, and work and money are a thing of the past. Past installments of the Shareable Futures series can be found here. Read more »
Has the hype surrounding eBooks grown severely overblown? Absolutely, states technology writer Christopher Mims at MIT’s Technology Review, who writes the exuberance around the Kindle and iPad is little more than an effect of an accelerated hyp. Read more »
A few weeks back, I wrote about authors Laird Harrison and Jesus Angel Garcia, who are leveraging the social web to distribute excerpts of their novels in unusual ways. Read more »
One of the most surprising things, for me, about becoming a working writer, has been the discovery of how social a profession it is.
Back in adolescence, dreaming about someday Publishing Great Things, I imagined a solitary struggle. Read more »
There was a moment, sometime near the end of the last century, when it rather suddenly became clear that Apache's web server was going to cement its position as the dominant webserver -- what the Web ran on. Read more »
Well, my original plan was to write next about my ambivalence towards capitalism, and how I ended up writing this series of blog posts, and whether the (implicitly modernist) short story of character, as a form, is still the correct vehicle for engag. Read more »
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