Topic: Pontification
April 2010
The speech Chris Anderson of Wired says is the best he’s ever seen on book publishing…

February 2010
In the Internet, No-one Knows You’re a Gay, Knitting Dog, and other things I guess I meant to say…
PS. By way of clarification, as some were confused, “On the internet no-one knows you’re a gay knitting dog” alludes to this iconic New Yorker cartoon from 1993 http://bit.ly/bManci
January 2010
A talking head, I am… A 10-year retrospective, of a sort…
The good folks at Booknet Canada are doing a conference in March Calculated Risk: Adventures in Book Publishing and, for their sins, are inviting me up to do a keynote. But since that’s not expiation enough, they did an interview with me for their BNCTV.
One sign of a good interview is when the interviewee learns at least as much as the interviewer and I was lucky enough to have exactly that experience at the hands of Morgan Cowie. I’d fun doing this, and check out the second frame for a completely different and rather hilarious cut of the interview by Mark Bertils.
And this is Mark’s remix. Thank God he didn’t make me seem like I was trying to rap, or some such.
I ran Soft Skull Press, now an imprint of Counterpoint, from 2001 to 2007 and ran the imprint on behalf of Counterpoint until early 2009. Here's why I left. I'm now developing a start-up called Cursor, a portfolio of niche social publishing communities, one of which will be called Red Lemonade [not actual website ;-] read more »
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