The Internet Link Recycler

http://mashable.com/2010/02/04/amazon-macmillan-war/

Before you become a writer, know that books are all but gone.  When people write for the wired age, it will be in a very short form, and not for paper.  Think, a page or two at a time and over weeks of time.  A subscription model.

In a way, it’s history repeating itself.  First there was oratory.  Then oration collected in expensive books.  Books don’t sell, but magazines do (books a chapter at a time).  Eventually compilations of chapters became cheap enough to own as a book.

I think people will no longer want to read books, if for no other reason than they perceive reading as requiring to much time.  They’ll want stories to be a screen or two of text at a time and to continue day or every few days.  When they find something they like, they will buy it as a compilation, and probably as an electronic text (as long as they think they get to keep their text for a long time).

Amazon is trying to be the Gutenberg press of the electronic world.  MacMillan?  They are the record company of the publishing world.

Googlism is the answer.  You can find answers to all of life’s questions in Google.  Google is benevelent and always there (as long as your connection is up, or you have WiFi, or something).

Apple, move over, Google is the second coming.

True stories about psycological torture.  I have only read a couple.  I guess the hope is that people can come together and get some of the hardship off their mind.

Dad chains his two year old to a lamp post, so he can go to work.  The added benefit is that the boy can perform and collect additional income for the family.  I wonder whay dad didn’t put a basket for the child on the front or back of his rickshaw?

The always reputable and veritas news network, Daily Kos, polls self avowed Republicans about their beliefs.  Personally I am relieved.  The majority think that Obama was born in the US.  The majority thinks that he DOES NOT want the terrorists to win.  Etc.  This, to me, was an epic victory of unity.  Think small folks.

Through a fluke of timing and good fortune – according to an interview with historian Wade Davis in the National Geographic – Hatian independence fighters kept the French military so mired in Haiti, the French didn’t have time to re-establish their authority in Louisiana.  According to Davis, had the French returned to Louisiana, we could very well have ended up with a Quebec to the west of of us (complete with rumblings of independence and forcing all of us to learn some French).

Pat Robertson, please retire.  You have horses, diamond mines and lots and lots of money.  Go enjoy your retirement, you deserve it.

We, here on the southside, are now inter-web-net news(fricking’)worthy.  Meta-Flitter discovered us, and picked up our 5 year old eagle cam.  I

What these social butterflies (flitting about, pollinating every pretty flower they see), don’t understand, is the toll.  The eagles own the very best property in the Norfolk Botanical Gardens.  Why couldn’t they have parked their damned nest closer to the airport parking garage?  It would have been safer, and there’s a quiet lake there.  Oh, yeah.  I forgot about the eagle killing owls.

So the eagles have run off the NATO Azalea Festival, and forced us to play eagle poo hopscotch, but we really, really like the attention.  Whatever you do, DO NOT touch eagle byproducts.  If you touch anything eagle, a Virginia state game warden will jump out from behind a long leaf pine, wang you on the head with a truncheon, and cart you off to jail.

Introducing the Taseler.  It’s good for kids.  Plus it’s safer, too.  And only 99.95.  Stuff!  Stuff!  Stuff!  Yeah!

Ron Jeremy says pirating porn is immoral.  Maybe he meant immortal.  So, if pirating porn is immoral, what could possibly be moral.

Perfect for the illiterate, with digital quality, this solar powered audio bible will be great comfort to those seeking food and freash water in Haiti.  It’s sort of like when you keep getting begged on by bums who want spare change.  You know they’re just getting rich off you, and even if they aren’t they’re just going to go spend the change on Ripple(R).  What you do is carry a pocket full of Granola Bars(R), ’cause if they’re really hungry, they’ll take your snack food and be grateful.  You are so wise.