Category: Storytelling

Suzanne Stefanac is writing a book on blogging called Dispatches from Blogistan (catchy title, eh?) for Peachpit / New Riders. Naturally, she’s been blogging the whole process and posting snippets of work in progress and the texts of interviews she’s conducted for the book. I know Suzanne from The Well, where I host the blog…

I’m doing my best to blog about sxsw this year but Scot Hacker’s doing a great job of it. The only way for me to find out about the things I’m missing (good panels that are at the same time as other good panels, parties at the same time as other parties) is to find…

Marie Myung-Ok Lee, who has been blogging her book tour (on my Mediajunkie network) at MarieLee.net has recently landed a gig writing Fertility Blog for Adoption.com. Meanwhile, Lindisima Lovely has been writing Ms. Conception about trying to conceive a child as a single mother, also on my little Mediajunkie server. Do I sense a trend?…

A short story about the posta-blogalyptic future.

My friends Steve and Elizabeth are blogging the reconstruction of New Orleans from within the city: Inside the Bowl. We stay with them when we go to Jazz Fest (nearly every year), and we were very worried about them when the flood and hurricane hit. They evacuated successfully and their house wasn’t harmed, and they’ve…

One of the blogs I host in the Telegraph collective on the Mediajunkie server is The Philter, by Bill Cassel. Bill’s been blogging the Tour de France diligently, day by day. Just sayin’.

Please allow me to aggrandize myself, but my Monkey Vortex cohorts have scripted and produced a two-minute playlet called Sympathy for the W. I was given a cowriting credit but that overstates the case. That is me on lead vocals, though. I know, I know. Don’t quit your day job. Cruel of you to say…

Susannah Breslin, whose now-defunct Reverse Cowgirl blog still hovers near the all-time top list here among Salon Bloggers has got a new website up at The Invisible Cowgirl. Looks like her novel is about to come out. Congratulations, Susannah! (Via Xeni at BoingBoing.)

A year or so ago, with the help of Jon Lebkowsky, I started an independent conference on the Well called blog.ind. Plenty of people on the Well are blog-savvy already of course (case in point: Cory Doctorow), but the information about blogging was scattered across a number of confs, and I also detected a bit…

The Onion | CIA Asks Bush To Discontinue Blog: On Saturday, Basham asked to pre-screen all blog activity before Bush posts it online. Bush rejected Basham’s request and later that day wrote in his blog that “Some people who shall remain nameless apparently do not know there is such a thing as free speech in…

Hugely popular pseudonymous Salon blogger Real Live Preacher announced that he has been offered a book deal with Eerdmans (he also had an offer from Jossey-Bass): What does this mean for the blog? Chuck and I agree that the blog must continue. If I didn’t have the blog driving me, I’d just go back to…

I just put up a gallery of photos from Joi Ito’s November 11, 2003, dinner in San Francisco. I also blogged about the dinner at Radio Free Blogistan, which is now a group weblog.

It’s easy to understand why the author of gangstories has found dredging up his past to be too painful to continue, but it’s sort of a shame. You don’t often get this kind of clear-eyed gripping depiction of life in poor neighborhoods, let alone honest portrayal of gangbanging without all the “gangsta” glamour shoveled on…

Back from the Edge tells a little story about being trapped behind a Hummer in traffic. Yesterday I was reading about Steve Wozniak’s new venture* with his Wheels of Zeus (WoZ) company, a GPS-chip based tracking system for children, pets, and other things that tend to go missing. Totally opt in, I’m sure, so no…

Been on a semivacation in New York and can barely keep up with one weblog let alone six. I wish there were something like the MTrssfeed plugin available here so I could list headlines from my other blogs in my TypePad sidebar. Just posted a little note about seeing Greg Osby at Birdland and encountering…

“…a simple matter of implementing the algorithms,” said the British-accented voice on NPR as I turned my radio off. Sure, I said, “and of algomenting the implerithms.”

Dutch Uncles. Steve – beard, jesus, Monokokolokis Doug – saab, Eames chair Dale – elusive godparents real uncles

That ain’t the problem. I have no shortage of things to write about. That ain’t the problem. That’s never been the problem.

When I realize that I’ll probably miss my 25th grade school reunion in June and I miss my mother on mother’s day and I wish I had been at my brother’s birthday sendoff before his next trip to Greece, I sometimes think about moving back to New York. Other times I don’t: Sure, you passed…

Spring comes to San Francisco. Rich Frankel’s got foxgloves coming up everywhere.