“Think for a moment of the long chain of iron or gold, of thorns or flowers, that would never have bound you, but for the formation of the first link on one memorable day.” — Charles Dickens
- Marcel Duhamel’s writing advice : No thoughts, just action
- The singular “they” : Its lineage is more distinguished than you might think
- Les Fleurs Animées : “Flowers are the expression of society.”
- Should publishers change the way authors get paid? : Neither publishers or authors are making much money, but now that book manufacturing is no longer an esoteric process the relationship between authors and publishers cannot continue blindly following old patterns
- A field guide to color management : “Illogical as it may sound, when working at home, you want to send your printer (which is a CMYK device) RGB images to print . . .”
- Where speaking English gets you thrown off the bus : Better start brushing up your françois
Duly quoted
“Weblogs are a ‘revolution.’ They’re ‘journalism.’ They’re ‘art.’ They’re, again and again, the next New Thing. To which the only possible response can be: come on, people. . . . How can you not boggle at the level of self-delusion, of self-infatuation, it takes to declare that . . . the concept will be alive and well a decade from now? That weblog readership will increase a hundredfold in that time?”
—Greg Knauss, November 1999, in Say Everything: How Blogging Began, What It’s Becoming, and Why It Matters (via Island Bookworm)