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Wednesday, July 18, 2007
Warning: contains actual dialog 
What writers are talking near you?
| | After posting a Holiday From Hell story that reads like a movie script (yes, it's been done; but if that stopped Hollywood, it wouldn't exist), Chris Anderson followed up with word that BookTour.com has launched. This is good news for our family of readers (especially The Kid, who burns through a book a day). It's a good way for writers and readers to find each other in meet (or meat) space, and not just on pages. One very small quibble: the site addresses Authors and Audiences. I understand why. In addition to the alliterative reciprocity between those two, book tours do tend to involve writers speaking to groups. So, in the literal sense, audience is correct. But the relationship is between authors and readers. It's readers who show up in audiences when authors speak. |
| | It's a cool thing. Check it out. |
So longer
| | Santa Barbara Newsroom functioned from the beginning as a temporary online paper where writers in exile from the Santa Barbara News-Press could keep working while waiting to return to work after legal efforts to make the paper's owner, Wendy McCaw, take them back. Last Friday they threw in the towell on the website (at least as a live service), but not on their cause. Specifically, |
| | We simply don't have the funds to continue online indefinitely. But we are not going away! It¹s time to step up our campaign for reinstatement to the News-Press and a Teamster contract in the newsroom. Beginning Aug. 14, we will be on the witness stand as the News-Press goes on trial in Santa Barbara on charges of 15 violations of federal labor law, including our firings. This site will remain as an archive. |
| | When they went on in April, I wrote, |
| | ...my hope for the SB Newsroom was to see a new online paper that would carry forward as its own operation, with its own publishing as well as editorial ambitions. What we have here is a new breed that isn't built to reproduce. Meaning nobody else can use it. It's unique to Santa Barbara's bizarre dispute between the owner of a paper and pretty much everyone else... |
| | From the beginning I've thought that the best way to get the best daily news for Santa Barbara was to create competition for the News-Press, not to return its best reporters to what can only be an unhappy work environment. The Santa Barbara Newsroom was a step in that direction. While I think it did a good job, I also think its purposes were crossed from the start. That's why last Friday's news was no surprise for me. |
| | Still, I wish the best for all those writers, regardless of where they go and how their disputes work out. |
Timber?
| | If a VOIP company falls in the forest, will anybody hear it? Some can, apparently. That's how I learned that SunRocket has gone out of business. The NYTimes said so too, but I missed that. |
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