February 2012
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Poem for a Cold Walk Home
by Chris Ransick from Never Summer: Poems From Thin Air
If I told my story, you might doubt how high snow piled along the street, how smooth the ice lay all about
low places in a glassy sheet, green and black as dusk came down, late January freeze complete.
I measured steps, a little clown, with songs and jokes, the squirrels and birds the only audience around.
I think they knew the tunes and...
September 2011
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July 2011
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June 2011
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April 2011
3 posts
Not even his cause was worthy →
A lot of the hand wringing over the Greg Mortenson scandal has been a lament over the damage he has done to the “worthy” cause of building schools in Afghanistan and Pakistan. But the cause is crap, and the faster Greg and his foundation disappear the better.
What the 60 Minutes piece made clear is that what The Central Asia Institute does primarily is build buildings. Call them schools. Call...
March 2011
7 posts
Just Announced! SON LUX: WE ARE RISING - 04/26/11 →
sonlux:
Listen to “Rising,” featuring contributions from DM Stith and the Antlers’ Peter Silberman.
Artwork by The Made Shop.
Yes!
Steal This E-Book
Jon Bruner: On all your titles you've dropped digital-rights management (DRM), which limits file sharing and copying. Aren't you worried about piracy?
Tim O'Reilly: No. And so what? Let's say my goal is to sell 10,000 copies of something. And let's say that if by putting DRM in it I sell 10,000 copies and I make my money, and if by having no DRM 100,000 copies go into circulation and I still sell 10,000 copies. Which of those is the better outcome? I think having 100,000 in circulation and selling 10,000 is way better than having just the 10,000 that are paid for and nobody else benefits.
People who don't pay you generally wouldn't have paid you anyway. We're delighted when people who can't afford our books don't pay us for them, if they go out and do something useful with that information.
I think having faith in that basic logic of the market is important. Besides, DRM interferes with the user experience. It makes it much harder to have people adopt your product.
Steal This E-Book
Jon Bruner: On all your titles you've dropped digital-rights management (DRM), which limits file sharing and copying. Aren't you worried about piracy?
Tim O'Reilly: No. And so what? Let's say my goal is to sell 10,000 copies of something. And let's say that if by putting DRM in it I sell 10,000 copies and I make my money, and if by having no DRM 100,000 copies go into circulation and I still sell 10,000 copies. Which of those is the better outcome? I think having 100,000 in circulation and selling 10,000 is way better than having just the 10,000 that are paid for and nobody else benefits.
People who don't pay you generally wouldn't have paid you anyway. We're delighted when people who can't afford our books don't pay us for them, if they go out and do something useful with that information.
I think having faith in that basic logic of the market is important. Besides, DRM interferes with the user experience. It makes it much harder to have people adopt your product.
Steal This E-Book
Jon Bruner: On all your titles you've dropped digital-rights management (DRM), which limits file sharing and copying. Aren't you worried about piracy?
Tim O'Reilly: No. And so what? Let's say my goal is to sell 10,000 copies of something. And let's say that if by putting DRM in it I sell 10,000 copies and I make my money, and if by having no DRM 100,000 copies go into circulation and I still sell 10,000 copies. Which of those is the better outcome? I think having 100,000 in circulation and selling 10,000 is way better than having just the 10,000 that are paid for and nobody else benefits.
People who don't pay you generally wouldn't have paid you anyway. We're delighted when people who can't afford our books don't pay us for them, if they go out and do something useful with that information.
I think having faith in that basic logic of the market is important. Besides, DRM interferes with the user experience. It makes it much harder to have people adopt your product.
sonlux:
SON LUX - WE ARE RISING (FULL ALBUM...
February 2011
1 post
WatchCan’t wait to hear the final product!
sonlux:
The Final Day of Son Lux’s Album-In-A-Month Project. Judson Crane tracks celeste from his studio in Savannah, and Ryan Fitch records drums from his Brooklyn Studio. Watch the project come to life, as NPR documents the creative process at work on their All Songs Considered blog (npr.org/blogs/allsongs).
August 2010
1 post
listening to "SON LUX - Throw" →
Son Lux is one of the most brilliant emerging musicians I’ve heard. It’s a pleasure to introduce him to you. Enjoy~
July 2010
10 posts
listening to "Beck - Timebomb" →
Totally addicted to this song this a.m.—apropos of just about everything going on these days.
listening to "Ohio-Over the Rhine" →
Not about Cleveland specifically, but how can you have an Ohio set without OTR?
listening to "Let →
Today’s Cleveland song of the day…Frank Zappa!
listening to "R.E.M. - Cuyahoga" →
My next favorite Cleveland song…for the Woods.
listening to "Adam Again - 9 - River On Fire - Dig... →
Good friends moving to Cleveland this week—this is the first, and my favorite, in a series of Cleveland songs this week. Any other suggestions?
listening to "Trio - Da Da Da" →
Speaking of blip hop…this one still reigns, especially when it’s 95 degrees outside.
listening to "Da-D-Da - We Are The Bugs" →
Stumbled on this by accident—it’s a twisted blend of blip hop, menace, and ambient. Frighteningly difficult to turn off.
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WatchPete Gall, author of My Beautiful Idol and Learning My Name, offered this brilliant explanation of how the service economy boomed in the past 100 years, why it has to change, and how to change it. By using your brand (as a company, author, or whatever you do) to point people toward something larger—justice, peace, beauty—you will help people move past their fear of pain and into the...
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The Tumblr "Creative Writing" Directory
Yep, I’d love to be listed. Would you click this link http://www.tumblr.com/directory/recommend/creativewriting/calebjseeling to recommend this blog?
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Yes, Oh Histrionic One
“Those f***ing people don’t know what the f*** they’re doing!” says my boss, her stress and vexation preceding her physical presence like a cold front as she rounds the corner into the office. “We’re sending a crew to cover this event in Detroit in a week, and the f***ing organizers haven’t even written a f***ing press release yet! What the...
June 2010
11 posts
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A Man's Guide to Home Birth
This is a reblog of a funny, little article written by Tony Whitman. Go ahead…pour yourself a shot of scotch (neat) and enjoy!
When my wife decided to have an unassisted home birth - she did her best to furnish me with the best reading and preparatory material that was available. However, since I was neither a medical professional nor a woman, the material just did not really apply to...
listening to "The Decemberists - Won →
Chili dogs, Cutthroat Porter, Colorado evening sun, Decemberists…mmm.
listening to "Arctic Monkeys - Crying Lightning... →
Great evening flying solo with the kiddos & making dinner with the Arctic Monkeys. Yeah.
listening to "New Pornographers - Your Hands... →
A great song for the book about relationships that I’m editing//@struggleville: “New Pornographers – Your Hands (Together)”