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Intriguing look at how Byliner, The Atavist and others are creating a market for long-form nonfiction writing. Writes Emily Witt:
Once electronic readers become ubiquitous, the purchase of long-form articles might become as regular as a cup of coffee.
Love, love, love seeing World Hum make the cut as a 2010 Webby Honoree in the best writing category, along with NPR, BBC and others. Our contributors work hard to make their stories sing, and we work hard editing behind the scenes, so it’s great to be recognized. Congrats to all!
Douglas Coupland and his beard on storytelling and the fate of our personal narratives in the digital age. The conversation gets rolling about four minutes in.
Hooray for Charlie Brooker. Brilliant.
Compelling story by Joel Achenbach about the fate of the narrative in the “Age of Twitter.” The crux of the problem:
Good stories take time to craft. Good writers, editors, copy editors, photographers, etc., all expect a living wage. The real question in the months and years ahead is whether there’s a business model that can support good stories. Norman Sims, journalism professor at the University of Massachusetts Amherst: “The great stories will survive. But the question is who’s going to pay for them. . . . This is not fast food. This is slow food. And it’s expensive.”
I recently unleashed my announcer voice to narrate the video for my wife’s book, Ophelia Joined the Group Maidens Who Don’t Float: Classic Lit Signs on to Facebook.
Brace yourself for finger puppets.
I’m excited, thrilled, proud, exhausted, blurry-eyed. But there it is, the site we’ve been working on all year. Looking forward to building it out in 2009 and beyond.
Check it out and let me know what you think.
George Packer’s linguistic death list. Farewell to gravitas and “the entire litany of Palinesque nouns.”