A Momentary Taste of Being

Wikipedia told

Learning to be a happy skeptic aka The Nigerian Spam survivor's guide

via Books Inq.  The Internet and the Web

A newly uncovered interview with T.S. Eliot.

An article in the LA Times articulates a crisis in freelance writing.   And while it doesn't lay the entire blame at the Internet's door, it is easy to see how the ability to publish reams and ream of material (like many of us do as book bloggers) may cause the market for materials that must be purchased shrink.  Why go out and buy a magazine with a load of book reviews, if I can travel the internet and find more book reviews that I can shake a stick at? And there is some truth to this as well.  There is among blogs material every bit as good as that published in magazines.  Editorial whim no longer controls my access to good reading.  The downside of this is that people who work on blogs don't get much in the way of remuneration for the work. For some of us--who would write whether there was any outlet in the world or not, that is no big deal.  No one wants to pay me for my thoughts--well that's okay, I have an excess of them and if they don't get out,...

Readability--nice. Oh, and let us not forget instapaper.

I love it when people come up with new means of collaboration.  I know, this isn't new, but it never failes to amaze me--the world, whether we like it or not, is transforming before our eyes, and we can choose to be part of the transformation and shape it in the way we would like it to flow, or choose to be obstructions and it will flow around and perhaps eventually over us.  When one can see the good uses technology can be put to, it makes the decision just a trifle easier.