Ras on New Media
The Promise of eBooks
Author’s Note: Glenn Galen, the friend of a friend on Facebook, wrote today’s Ras-curated guest post. Glenn is a songwriter, recording artist, and head of a small technology company.
The Blog-to-Book Fantasy
When I teach introductory courses on blogging, sooner or later a student will always raise a version of this question: what about a book? Can’t you put together a bunch of your blog posts and make a book that publishers … Read more
Ras’s Web Gems: Small Demons
Small Demons is one of the more intriguing ideas for a Web site I’ve seen in the new-media era. Valla Vakili, CEO and founder of the LA-based start-up, calls the site, which is still very much a work-in-progress, “a concordance … Read more
Books in Print: They Don’t Smell
Books – that is, the old-fashioned kind (in print, between covers, a.k.a. dead-tree content) – are much on my mind this week. I’ve been reading Gary Shteyngart’s delightfully clever satirical novel of a dystopian future, Super Sad True Love Story, … Read more
Bloggers at the Gates
Do we live in the last days of that venerable pillar of our culture – the term paper? A 2011 survey of college students reveals that 82 percent of freshman and more than half of seniors weren’t asked to do … Read more
SOPA, PIPA, and the Day Wikipedia Went Dark
Yesterday, January 18, was a day that history will view as the Fort Sumter moment of the coming wars over intellectual property on the Internet. Or maybe not. As Buddhists like to say, we’ll see. What is certain is that … Read more
TED THE CAT
Ted the Cat (1994-present) is a domestic shorthair blogger and vers libre poet. He also enjoys sleeping, eating, and lurking. Ted the Cat co-habits with Kaze,
also a blogger at 317am.net.
ABOUT THE AUTHORS
Kaze
Kaze is Washington DC area writing guru Steve Altman. The nickname is Japanese for “the wind.” Read more »
RasoirJ
Ras at Texas BBQ in DC, site of lunchtime chats with Kaze on the art and agony of writing. Ras is also known in some publishing circles as George Clack. Read more »