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Alexander Besher's Blog
November 21, 2008
- Just returned from speaking at the Microsoft-sponsored MobileCamp NYC3 seminar in New York where "Manga Man" was one of the most popular presentations among the geekerati. Tremendous feedback at http://barcamp.org/MobileCampNYC3. ("Manga Man was pretty epic.") The meta-multimedia novel has gone viral worldwide via an article in New Scientist ...
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October 27, 2008
- Greets, Fellow Red Roomies!I've been AWOL from this site for some months, but not idling away, instead working very very hard on the launch of my new project, The Manga Man, which can only be described as "meta-multimedia" since it's the first of its kind ever, and I suppose I get to call it whatever I want, there being nothing else to compare it to. It's the wave of the future, in my ...
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July 23, 2008
- Chinese warned on 'eight don't asks' when dealing with foreigners (AP)--O.K. to ask:1) “Is your mother Tibetan?”2) “Is your mother the Dalai Lama?”3) “Have you ever sent your clothes to be cleaned at a Tibetan laundry?”4) “Do you think that Richard Gere is more handsome than the Dalai Lama?”5) “Were you a Tibetan in a past life? No? Welcome to the Olympics!”6) “Don’t you ...
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May 26, 2008
- Probe lands on Mars, NASA says (CNN)--But they can’t make Martians confess until they discover water.from http://alex-de-talkville-america.blogspot.com/
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May 17, 2008
- Quoted from Media Bistro:>>"Let's say, in the new world, Amazon becomes the retailer, marketer, publisher and agent combined and takes 65% of the revenues, offering 35% to the author--we end up with a much better, fairer world."It would be fairer as far as authors making more for their hard work, but will the media that shuns vanity publishing step up and review those ...
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April 23, 2008
- Today is Shakespeare's birthday. Happy Bard Day to you! Happy Bard Day to you! Happy Bard Day, dear William! Happy Bard Day to you! Now to be the candles or not to be the candles, that is the question. Blown out in your honor.
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March 12, 2008
- Paglia: Hillary campaign has 'set bad precedent for future women candidates' (Salon)—The question isn’t about the devaluation of feminism today. As Rumsfeld noted, that’s “old Europe.” The real question is: Will the Clintons steal the election like Bush did in Florida and Ohio? And what have the American people learned since then?
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February 15, 2008
- So I'm a little floored. Last summer I entered the Writers' Guild-sponsored Scriptapalooza Television Script competition, and yesterday I learned that my script, "The Vicious Circle," was picked by top agents etc. as one of the five finalists in the Original Pilot category, out of 843 script submissions by professional and non-professional writers. My script "The Vicious ...
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February 11, 2008
- Writing's On The Wall After WGA Strike: ‘Strategies are in flux’ . . . ‘There's no real game plan’ . . . ‘The new world order for Hollywood’ (Tim Goodman, SF Chron)—Melting ratings, fleeing viewers and platform evolution = Climate change for global creativity.
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February 7, 2008
- Foreclosure Hits Renters (SF Chron)—The 'R' word, but a new one for our times: We're in the "Great Repression."Rice: "Afghanistan progressing despite Taliban" (AP)—Best yield of poppies ever.American businesswoman jailed in Saudi for going to Starbucks (TimesOnline.com)—Sentenced to 100 decaf lashes.
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February 5, 2008
January 29, 2008
- Dear Patry,What a lovely book cover and what a great title (“The Liar’s Diary”). You had me hooked from the first sentence, so much so that I hit Amazon’s “Surprise Me!” tab enough times to know that more surprises were in store. Congratulations! I ordered the book, and I look forward to the sequel, which I’m sure is forthcoming. I also felt that telltale tingle that tells me ...
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January 25, 2008
- We have a couple of stories originally written in GERMAN that we're planning to include in "Flowers Under the Sand: An Anthology of Contemporary Arabic and Muslim Science Fiction and Fantasy." One is written by the Berlin-based Arabic diaspora novelist couple Sabine and Saddek Kebir from Algeria. Story is an excerpt from their novel "Sheharazad 2011," about a hip young ...
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January 21, 2008
- Thumbs race as Japan's Best Sellers go Cellular (NYT)--Lit-o-Suction? When the reviews are longer than the book.
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January 17, 2008
- Steve Jobs: "People Don't Read Anymore;" Jobs's disdain for the Amazon.com Kindle (Galley Cat)—What do you expect from an illiterate? No wonder I hate the Macbook Leopard OSX I recently bought after my dearly beloved iBook expired. The Macbook is SO unfriendly to word processor users, the manual sucks, and even the kindly Apple Tech Support can’t advise on basic word processing ...
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