I met fellow blogger Suw Charman for coffee last week. We thrashed through some possibilities for working together, even though our blogging interests don’t overlap in the least. But she knows her stuff – especially when it comes to blogging and business. I especially liked her blogs as Tamagotchi post from last summer. It will resonate with those of you who’ve made the leap into blogging yourselves! Watch this space for further developments.
This reads as if a mad picaresque tale. Myers as first a reporter for RTÉ and then as a freelance journalist with no real experience, finds himself wandering into savagery as he hastens north as the Troubles explode. A soldier dies next to him; he witnesses an IRA ambush; he sees children shot to death [...] read our review »
Here’s a great review of a fascinating book (H/T reader Rory) on how the Internet is destroying our capacity for intelligent, focused and critical thought. It opens thus: …here is the news that Ulin brings in this slim, meandering book: that reading is “an act of contemplation”; that such an act becomes more difficult in [...] read our review »