Blogging as ephemeral, or There are still useful sentences in there, in the e-dark, waiting. http://smith.smallpict.com/2013/12/28/bloggingAsEphemeral.html
Blogmath: 250 words a day, say, adds up to 90,000 words a year, enough for a book or a few ebooks. http://smith.smallpict.com/2013/12/28/bloggingAsEphemeral.html
“White people are often sincerely and greatly pained by racism, but rarely are they pained enough.” @TaNehisiCoates http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2014/12/the-new-republic-an-appreciation/383561/?single_page=true
“A report about state crimes that should never have been committed, should never have been authorized.” http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/dec/09/guardian-view-on-us-torture-report-america-shame-disgrace
Journalism’s crisis “has nothing to do with the work journalists actually do.” As @JeffJarvis says, this is wrong. http://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/real-crisis-journalism-new-republic
Once a philosophy student, Hans Westerink now crafts chocolate and is launching Violent Sky Chocolate. @IUSouthBend http://ediblemichiana.com/features/raising-the-chocolate-bar/
Chocolate is “much too important to be left solely in the hands of massive factory producers,” says Hans Westerink. http://ediblemichiana.com/features/raising-the-chocolate-bar/
“Generosity is the Internet’s greatest currency.” From the Reported.ly manifesto. View at Medium.com
To say exactly what she meant about creative writing, Eudora Welty needed five commas in this single sentence: http://10x14s.smallpict.com/2014/12/08/#a1418060699
Lots of people don’t know how much their genre writes for them. And also writes them. New from @JayRosen_nyu: http://pressthink.org/2014/12/i-had-just-arrived-in-the-chicago-bureau-and-i-needed-a-story/
Semaphore & Cairn 