Links and Thoughts (LnT) 1: 8 May 2014
Casiopea vs T-Square – Japanese Soul Brothers ~ Fightman
Good Morning.
Local: Attention Atlanta Radio listeners: Album 88 (88.5, Georgia State’s student-run station) will be switching it’s daytime format from music to news, in a deal with Georgia Public Broadcasting — so instead of college/indy music, there will be some mix of NPR/PRI/APM content. I, for one, will miss the music but I also like the idea of having NPR talk as an option during those crucial hours between Morning Edition and All Things Considered.
WRAS Album 88 switching to daytime news format with GPB
[link via @MaraDavis on twitter, who other Atlantians should possibly be following.]
Comics:
“Meltdown Comics and Collectibles opened in 1993 on Sunset Boulevard, in Los Angeles, less than two miles from the intersection of Sunset and Vine, right in the heart of Hollywood. More than 20 years later, the store is one of the largest in the country and has diversified its inventory from simply comic books and graphic novels into comedy, podcasting and pop culture. ‘Digital media is killing us, just like records stores,’ says co-owner Gaston Dominguez-Letelier. ‘People started downloading music, now they are downloading books and comics. … It’s not the same as it used to be.’”
audio at link: A comic book pioneer adjusts to the digital age, Marketplace (APM radio), 7 May 2014
Business: Some companies would rather just get rid of interns, than pay them
Quartz
Business: Activision is spending $500 million to make ‘Destiny’ the next ‘Halo’
The Verge
Gov’t: Why America’s about to run out of money for roads (again)
Vox
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Today’s Book Recommendation is Brian McClellan’s Promise of Blood, and if you need a review, I like the one Howard Tayler wrote. I’m giving Promise of Blood the nod because the second book in the trilogy The Crimson Campaign, was released in hardcover on Tuesday.
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diary entry for 8 May:
If I can find a topic, I’ll be doing a podcast — and by podcast I mean YouTube video because a solo podcast is a lonely thing, but for whatever reason people really connect with one-person and a camera video. There is even a word for it, “vlog”, which I hate at least as much as I hated the word “blog” eight years ago. (It took a while for the term, and the appellation blogger, to sound right to my ear. I’ve since embraced it.)
The thing about a video series and/or podcast is that people expect you to have a topic. I don’t want to cover publishing/bookselling, though I certainly have enough material on that one…
I’d be tempted to do music reviews, very much in the vein of what I’ve been posting recently but the embedded-video-with-commentary blog posts works exceptionally well for that (in my opinion) and adding my voice to it doesn’t seem like an improvement.
I may end up splitting the difference between bookselling and music reviews and do book reviews, though that is very hard to do on a weekly basis if you haven’t a process and workflow already. I also have a few doubts about my abilities there; I’ve never really felt comfortable as a reviewer. I feel some of my reviews are more like book reports (middle-school level) when I try to write more than three paragraphs on anything. In fact, my preference would be the ‘shelftalker’ — a few sentences at most recommending the book (selling it to you, as it were) — but that wouldn’t make for a very long podcast, would it?
I suppose I could string together several such (or perhaps, do something called “The Book Minute”. heh.) but again, I’d be worried about running out of content. As you might have noted, I can’t even manage daily blog posts.
So: still spitballing ideas for a podcast, and thinking about its ‘sustainability’ over a long haul. —M.
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