Online? Expect to be read
A young friend of mine who works for a hip magazine in a super-hip city recently Tweeted a negative reference to her workplace. A few hours later, her boss called her in to the office, and told her she...
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Your umpteenth reminder of Bloomsday
As Contrary Blog’s resident Joycean, I’d been planning to be first out of the box today with a post about Bloomsday. Logging into Facebook, however, I found that no less than five of my 333 friends...
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Rushdie tweets on a reality-show twit
When Salman Rushdie is an earlier adopter than me, I know I’m out of step with technology. But so it is. Using Twitter to weigh in on Kim Kardashian’s divorce from Kris Humphries (two people I frankly...
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Is the Atlantic making itself go viral?
About six years ago, I mentioned to someone that I’d just read an interesting article in the Atlantic that concerned whatever it was we were talking about at the time. She was a bit older than me, in...
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Thinking inside the box
One irony of modern life is that as technology makes more and more things possible, we often find ourselves working in tighter and tighter confines. This is especially true for writers. Where 10 years...
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Philip Roth is most definitely NOT on Twitter
If you, like many other people — including some seasoned reporters at the New York Times — were relieved to learn that you could keep reading new content from Philip Roth following the 79-year-old...
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Becoming better writers via social media
Some people (i.e. me) often complain that social media is ruining our attention to detail and appreciation for the craft of good writing. You can just throw something up (double-entendre totally...
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Two degrees, 14 years’ experience, will tweet for food
I’ll cut to the chase: I’m looking for a job. Specifically, a writing job, or at the very least, one that involves words in one way or another. This could include editing, ghostwriting, or even social...
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