Weekend Edition: 11-7

Bulletin Board

• I had the pleasure of speaking about blogging this week at the Newspaper Writing: Critical/Editorial course offered by Augie’s English/Journalism programs
• If only I’d known earlier, a personal dream would come true tonight. Springsteen and the E Street Band will perform The Wild, the Innocent, and the E Street Shuffle (the greatest rock album ever made) in its entirety for the first time tonight at Madison Square Garden.

Worthwhile Reading in the Interweb Tubes

• Cory Doctorow: Radical Presentism

Blog Headlines of the Week

• I read Jodie Sweetin’s book so you won’t have to
• What Dumb People Are Searching For On Google

Bookish Linkage

• Today is National Bookstore Day, designed to build the visibility of independent bookstores. South Dakota, sadly, is invisible.
• Is The Boss writing The Book? (Via.)
• Giving new meaning to the term “longlist,” the longlist for the 2010 International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award has 156 books on it.
• I know NaNoWriMo is big in the book blogosphere and podcastosphere (?) but I’m more along the lines that it should probably be called Write A Shitty Novel Month. (Via.) (Oh Gawd, there’s a similar one for blogs called NaBloPoMo, where the goal seems to be quantity, not quality.)

Nonbookish Linkage

• Ten inventions that changed the world.
• How to use an apostrophe.
• Feeling grumpy is good for you. (Via.)
• How many words do you see in a day? Note the operative word is “see,” not “read.”
• Oxymorons of the week: openly pagan Republican and “terrible videogame novelizations.”
• Two of my favorite things: The Big Picture does (stunning) space pr0n.

Ben Folds, “Learn to Live with What You Are,”
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