Here’s what we learned, including some surprises, in year one.
Category: Entertainment Industry
👓 Stanford community outraged at SU Press defunding, over 1,000 sign petitions | Stanford Daily
A flurry of critical letters, petitions and tweets came in the wake of the announcement of the University’s decision to discontinue funding for Stanford University Press, the primary printing ope...
This must be a big story in the ed space for me to have seen/read multiple stories and scrolled past several others…
And, yes, shame on Stanford.
👓 How a University Can Sell Its Soul: HASTAC's Stanford Origins and the University's Current Decision on Stanford University Press | HASTAC
“Austerity” When You Are Wealthier Than Just About Anyone
👓 The Demands of Positive Celebrity Coverage | Jezebel
It’s been a rough week to be a star, and a rough week to be someone who listens to what stars have to say. At least, that’s what social media tells me. Some of the most famous people making music today—Ariana Grande, Cardi B, and Justin Bieber (as well as Lizzo, a darling of critics and her fans but not quite of superstar status... yet?)—have shared their thoughts online regarding the state of media in 2019. None of it advocates for a free press, much less even contends with that notion. The gist is that journalism should be service journalism that primarily serves the powerful and their images.
🎧 LifeWay Christian Closing Brick-And-Mortar Bookstores | NPR
LifeWay Christian Stores plans to close all of its locations by end of the year and move all of the company's retailing online. Its bricks-and-mortar division has been losing money since 2013, and the company says it has tried just about everything to keep the business going, including overhauling several stores last summer and experimenting with features like coffee bars.
👓 Trump Lives by Ratings. He Won’t Like This One. | New York Times
The E-Score measures awareness and appeal of individuals in the public eye. President Trump was most often described as “aggressive” and “mean,” according to his scores from December.
👓 Highly Profitable Medical Journal Says Open Access Publishing Has Failed. Right. | Forbes
The New England Journal of Medicine just published an editorial saying open access publishing isn't necessary, because they already make most of their content free. What are they so worried about? Yours truly breaks down a few of their bogus arguments.
You’d think that a highly respected medical journal would be great and providing some back up evidence right?!
Looking forward to brainstorming about books at the next session at IndieWebCamp New Haven in about 30 minutes. #edTech #OER #publishing #DoOO #LibraryCarpentry
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👓 Open Your Mouth Very Wide | Peter Rukavina
Peter Rukavina (ruk.ca)I read somewhere—perhaps it was “5 Tips to Instantly Up Your Instagram Game” or some such—that, when taking photos of people, you should ask them to open their mouths as wide as possible.
Interestingly, it works. It seems weird, both to them and to you, but the photos that result often have much more life in them than they would otherwise.
I received similar instructions many years ago from a CBC Radio producer: I was going into the studio to record a commentary, and she advised me to make my points so emphatically as to appear (to myself) to be raving. It was very hard to do this, and it made me very uncomfortable, but I had to agree that the result was better.
An interesting piece of photography advice… I like the caricature advice for audio as well. It was something that obviously worked for people like Rush Limbaugh and Bill O’Reilly.
👓 Monthly report: February 2019 | Jeremy Cherfas
February was a pretty good month. Or maybe it's just that I have a lot more reminders of how good it was.
Our Daily Bread
Fear of rejection utterly justified; the agent says publishers want something less bitty, "a biography of a commodity, like Kurlansky's Cod". In sales terms, I'll bet that's what they want. But it is not at all what I want to write. So, back to making self-publishing a reality, ASAP.
Jeremy, if this is the response an agent and publishers have given you and you’re even remotely considering the self-publishing route, please do let me volunteer to help you in the endeavor. I have a tremendous amount of experience in the publishing area and also have a lot of overhead (including a massive block of ISBNs) in place to help you out along the way.
It’s the least I could do since I feel like I may be at least partially responsible for starting you down the primrose path of Our Daily Bread… I also suspect that what you’d like to write is going to be far more interesting and nourishing a project.
👓 'Captain Marvel' Shows How Trolls Lost Their Edge | WIRED
They've been trying to sabotage the movie's success from the beginning. Their failure proves they're played out.
🎧 The Daily: What Hollywood Keeps Getting Wrong About Race | New York Times
Wesley Morris joins us to talk about “Green Book,” the latest Oscar winner to focus on a white character’s moral journey in an interracial friendship.
I love Wesley Morris’s analysis here. Racial reconciliation fantasy is a great name for a rampant problem we’ve got in America. While it’s nice to try to sweep the problem under the rug, we really need to bring it out front and center and have a more honest discussion about it.
This may be one of the best podcast episodes I’ve heard in two months. I highly recommend it.
👓 ‘I can get any novel I want in 30 seconds’: can book piracy be stopped? | The Guardian
As publishers struggle with ‘whack-a-mole’ websites, experts, authors and Guardian readers who illegally download books, assess the damage