Archive for category: The print medium

How much money does Cory Doctorow make?    (2009.07.29)

By his own admission, I estimate the figure is $200,000 to $300,000 a year

Stupid code pays    (2009.07.28)

Tumblrs have stupid code and attract stupid – and smart – writers. It’s the stupid ones who make off with the loot

Tag soup, now at a discount    (2009.07.24)

Shortcovers will convert your book to ePub. For pennies a byte! Perhaps you get what you paid for

‘Unwebbable’    (2009.07.21)

Today my article, long in gestation, appears at A List Apart: “Unwebbable” examines how not every document can be folded and mutilated into a “Web page.”

‘Do Good Design’    (2009.07.17)

Do Good Design by David Berman lays on the ethics a bit thick, I think

Do you have to be queer to get your fabulous new reno into ‘Toronto Life’?    (2009.07.16)

Yes and no. But why are they so easy to dislike?

‘Doug’ Coupland’s ‘Generation X’    (2009.07.04)

In a 1989 article, “Doug” Coupland attributed the term “Generation X” to Billy Idol

Mock the Poncy Anglophile Week (5)    (2009.07.03)

Mocking billionaire’s son and author Alain de Botton: “I recognized my desire to submit to the report’s conclusions in the hope of quelling my doubts about my future”

Mock the Poncy Anglophile Week (4)    (2009.07.02)

Mocking Alain de Botton: “In the evening, I ordered a breaded chicken escalope from room service, and ate it whilst sitting on my bed, reading a book on the history of art in the Low Countries.” (Then he cruised personal ads)