Rantography

The Essence of “Essential” and “Inessential” Workers

April 20, 2020

“Farewell to the arts,- to eloquence” – Mary Shelly, “The Last Man” (1826) Weird things happen to language during a crisis. We have no way to describe what’s happening, so we invent new phrases. During the “outbreak” of the “novel coronavirus”, we comfortably added new phrases to our daily lexicon. None are more popular than…

Culture, Rantography, Rants

coronavirus, essential workers, language

How eBooks Can Save Journalism

April 7, 2013

At the Conservative Political Action Committee (CPAC), Michelle Bachmann said a lot of things that weren’t true. She said she got the information from a self-published book, Presidential Perks Gone Royal. It’s written by a Republican lobbyist. Bachmann trusted a book’s facts. Nothing wrong with that. However, with the filters for publication down, lies and…

Culture, For Writers, Politics, Rantography, Rants, Technology

ebooks, journalism, media, politics, self-publish, writing

How Do People Read Nowadays?

March 23, 2013

It’s an uncertain descent into darkness when you start thinking about heady questions like the future of books. In my short story, Digitally Remastered Classics, I try to ask a lot of those questions.

For Writers, Rantography

authors, books, ebooks, self-publish, writing

Journalism Isn’t Terrible, We Are: Selective, Celebrity Tragedy

February 22, 2013

Rantography

journalism, mass media, media, Oscar Pistorius