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Rather than (only) being a vendor pitchfest, I am genuinely surprised by the content quality of the office 2.0 conference so far. And that’s not just the free iPod talking. Over the next two days I’ll be posting on some … Continue reading →

Not content to just incite riotous outrage amongst my regular readers [ed. all 5 of them?] for killing poetry, I thought why rest there? Why not lets take on another beloved media: Fiction. Can we kill off poetry and fiction in just one week’s work?

This time I went straight to the experts. Exclusive! My one question interview with the lovely and sage Grace O’Connell, rising star at one of Canada’s more eminent publishing houses (who shall remain unnamed). What bleak hope is there for the humble novel in the hyper saturated media market in contending for your average consumer’s attention?

My guess was that things don’t look good for the Canadian Novel, at least with the traditional models of business and distribution.

But, you know, sometimes I just make these things up, let’s ask Grace… Continue reading →

Well congrats to B5, they just got a big check today. They now have their shot at being the next incarnation of Big Media. B5, if you don’t know, publishes blogs, a lot of blogs, for-profit. So this deal is interesting for a number of reasons… Continue reading →