In Old Regime France, literary elites cruelly abused Grub Street hack writers even after their suicides. Bloggers should expect no better. … Read the post bloggers beware: learn from writers' suicides on Grub Street
The U.S. Internal Revenue Service has a television channel. The U.S. Federal Courts have a television channel. The Federal Emergency Management Agency has a television channel. Soon these and other government programming will be available through the portal video.gov. That portal hopes to attract millions of views. Disintermediation isn’t just for business. We’re entering … Continue reading government television
Leading twentieth-century artist Yves Klein helped to generate enormous growth in art. His influence is readily apparent in major recent works of contemporary fine art such as Maximillian Miles’ sensuous and provocative Masterwork in Bluish. Klein’s work, however, has much broader importance. Klein pioneered marketing “zones of immaterial pictorial sensibility” — what media businesspersons today … Continue reading understanding the real business of content
“No literary complaint is more frequent and general than that of the insipidity of Modern Poetry.” From John Aikin, Essay on the Application of Natural History to Poetry (1777). Personally, I prefer street-fair entertainment.
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