This Week on Twitter, the Mall Grant College Act of 2014
Shall the name of this ongoing be “This Week on Twitter” or perhaps the more personal “My Week on Twitter”?
hm.
Food for thought. Also, it seems it would be worthwhile for me to edit a bit — perhaps by capping the number of embedded tweets to something less-rss-feed clogging? Not sure what a perfect number would be; more than a top 10 certainly, but 25 seems like too much. [I already edit out the one-on-one twitter conversations, almost all of my retweets, and some-but-not-all-political topics.]
Enough introductory digression. On with the tweets:
"instead of succumbing to temptation to reinvent itself, B&N should focus on the truly radical: being a bookstore." http://t.co/uHzSulHPSF
— Matt Blind (@ProfessorBlind) July 22, 2013
We should dramatically increase the scope of this program (w/out the law enforcement angle) as a way to pay the debt http://t.co/0KFJoqQGrO
— Matt Blind (@ProfessorBlind) July 22, 2013
SO: there are new publishing models and new payment models – please be sure to define which e- model you are so enamored of.
— Matt Blind (@ProfessorBlind) July 23, 2013
New Blog Post (drunken rant) The future of the book : http://t.co/lL1WMYvvPK
— Matt Blind (@ProfessorBlind) July 23, 2013
Isaac Asimov, Gene Wolfe, and Harlan Ellison – moderated by Studs Terkel and Calvin Trillin. Video at link: http://t.co/Q2gx1mILZB
— Matt Blind (@ProfessorBlind) July 23, 2013
Number 8. all of them, really, but mostly number 8. http://t.co/I5GtD1Fe2q
— Matt Blind (@ProfessorBlind) July 24, 2013
The Blip : http://t.co/bTqzK1nBgI <— an accident of history, and why the "American Dream" may prove to be fragile
— Matt Blind (@ProfessorBlind) July 24, 2013
This one gets a tweet for Sexy Doc Brown Cosplay. : original source http://t.co/hZcrjSU4tF, via
LaughingSquid</a> <a href="http://t.co/aACiNjb7z5">http://t.co/aACiNjb7z5</a></p>— Matt Blind (ProfessorBlind) July 24, 2013
Is it too early in the day for me to start tweeting blue? because I just found a link that deserves, no, demands swear words of approval:
— Matt Blind (@ProfessorBlind) July 24, 2013
Fuck yeah, this is what I've been talking about for years now : http://t.co/8DyXQ6U8nD
— Matt Blind (@ProfessorBlind) July 24, 2013
Detroit, today, and New York in 1975 : http://t.co/En6kuYklJE <- I don't think we'll see a federal loan this time around.
— Matt Blind (@ProfessorBlind) July 24, 2013
Even teenagers don't want to go to malls anymore : http://t.co/C6nzvBOOm0
— Matt Blind (@ProfessorBlind) July 24, 2013
five uses for your old, outdated Mall : magnet school : community college : town hall, gov't offices, + library : corporate HQ : park space
— Matt Blind (@ProfessorBlind) July 24, 2013
I think best use would be 2yr comm. colleges – this would require investment along the lines of 1862,1890 land grants http://t.co/gjQukrQzL8
— Matt Blind (@ProfessorBlind) July 24, 2013
[oh, damn. If I ever get off my bookstore kick that would make an excellent essay. lemme bookmark a half dozen of the things]
— Matt Blind (@ProfessorBlind) July 24, 2013
How big is the footprint of most regional malls? How does that compare to the acreage required by small college campuses?
— Matt Blind (@ProfessorBlind) July 24, 2013
Adapt anchor stores into lecture halls and lab space, build dorms in the parking lots. #malltoschool2030
— Matt Blind (@ProfessorBlind) July 24, 2013
So after I'm done redesigning the big box bookstore from scratch, shall I pivot my blog, &my attention to the rest of the retail landscape?
— Matt Blind (@ProfessorBlind) July 24, 2013
Ha! "Mall Grant Colleges." seems like an excellent, obvious followup to the 1890s agrarian land grants
— Matt Blind (@ProfessorBlind) July 24, 2013
Why re-invent the center? Malls are already positioned to be close to major traffic arteries, populations. 20min drive to your local, right?
— Matt Blind (@ProfessorBlind) July 24, 2013
The question for B&N: "Say we sell the Nexus/some other tab in store: what about the nook app experience would make such a device ours?"
— Matt Blind (@ProfessorBlind) July 26, 2013
I would say the future of nook depends most heavily on a software solution that B&N doesn't have yet.
— Matt Blind (@ProfessorBlind) July 26, 2013
Print Dead. The Onion has the obit. http://t.co/ZL5NhsHQQh http://t.co/nOQmh99ZDK
— Matt Blind (@ProfessorBlind) July 26, 2013
From PBS http://t.co/dsHajWrc6f via The Passive Voice http://t.co/79gv3MDGvn | real Self Publishing online (listed first): Create your own.
— Matt Blind (@ProfessorBlind) July 26, 2013
Rand Paul momentarily forgets John Lewis is still a congressman, misspeaks : http://t.co/9ANAIeXk9u
— Matt Blind (@ProfessorBlind) July 26, 2013
Graphic Novels Are Super Heroes in the Bookstore : http://t.co/5Smuojz55C
— Matt Blind (@ProfessorBlind) July 26, 2013
The sentiment expressed by Dan Rowinski on ReadWrite is fine -but why stop at Amazon? Why not run every biz this way? http://t.co/PRZnazEquq
— Matt Blind (@ProfessorBlind) July 26, 2013
Ok, so now the whole foodie thing really is overplayed. [note: story at link not about cronuts] http://t.co/VK0BOHnnMf
— Matt Blind (@ProfessorBlind) July 26, 2013
B&N's billion dollar bet. http://t.co/axN4BeoRbp HEY, B&N, My bookstore ideas are cheaper (yes, even the bookstore-slash-cruise-ship one.)
— Matt Blind (@ProfessorBlind) July 26, 2013
I think Comedy Central needs to release a John-Oliver-best-of DVD when the other Jon guy (what's his name again?) gets back to work
— Matt Blind (@ProfessorBlind) July 26, 2013
"It was as if a small liberal-arts college had been plunked down into a farm field." Bookstores were the revolution. http://t.co/0Q9EdpnsiR
— Matt Blind (@ProfessorBlind) July 27, 2013
I can't really blame a writer at The New Yorker (&living in NYC) for looking down his nose at B&N: "soulless franchise" indeed.
— Matt Blind (@ProfessorBlind) July 27, 2013
…but I really like the first half of that essay, about books before and just after the Big Box bookstores landed on suburbia
— Matt Blind (@ProfessorBlind) July 27, 2013
Vegetarian "bacon" options. Blasphemy. I link only so you can know your enemy : http://t.co/BWJZN00LJp
— Matt Blind (@ProfessorBlind) July 27, 2013
Apples astounding $16 Billion tech company acquisition : http://t.co/byiFTeNNUQ
— Matt Blind (@ProfessorBlind) July 27, 2013
In Price War, Amazon Discounts Go Deeper Than Ever
ShelfAwareness</a>: <a href="http://t.co/AowZcnCqT4">http://t.co/AowZcnCqT4</a></p>— Shelf Awareness (ShelfAwareness) July 27, 2013
