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I think Paul Boutin might have a crush on me. some anonymous troll named r0rschach or foohack Um... "foohack" is only used by one troll, afaik, and I'm not anonymous. :P http://tr.im/h9f This is the same Paul Boutin who was so impressed by my resume. http://tr.im/h9g
Was there ever a follow-up story to the VW post on your resume?
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I self-published a book in my senior year of high school, so yes. That's possible. However, I referred to the set of genres overall. The book certainly is not dead. However, it takes up less of the "fine arts" market proportionally than it did a hundred years ago, and that's because other genres exist that allow people certain other freedoms. It is easier to form a band now than it was a hundred years ago. A hundred…
"I self-published a book in my senior year of high school." I'm curious, what did you write about? Fiction/non-fiction? Still writing or just hacking? Putting a book together at that age is a respectable achievement.
I still write, though I haven't written anything as ambitiously. My start-up is one that focuses on creative writers who want to learn to write at a more professional level, so it lets me get away with doing both. And I'll probably be writing something for NaNoWriMo in November: if I like that, I'll spend a little bit revising and seeing if any publishers are interested.
The two things go nicely together, because with literature you get used to putting things together haphazardly until they work: hacking gives you a more utilitarian approach to doing things. I find that when I'm in the middle of programming, I write better - if that makes any sense to you.
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" People with visions and dreams find that it's easier to make movies, or form bands. Some people write, yes, but the book is not as dominant as it was in 1900. The same stands for the play and the concerto." Any references to back this up? I bet it's easier to self-publish a book than it is to make a movie.
I self-published a book in my senior year of high school, so yes. That's possible. However, I referred to the set of genres overall. The book certainly is not dead. However, it takes up less of the "fine arts" market proportionally than it did a hundred years ago, and that's because other genres exist that allow people certain other freedoms. It is easier to form a band now than it was a hundred years ago. A hundred…
Isn't a blog supposed to be personal? The mentioned sites aren't really blogs, so the article is irrelevant.
Blogs still matter when it comes to details that aren't discussed in the media. In my native language blog posts and forum discussions are among the top results and I often learn more and understand my country better from this content than from the PR-dominated media.
I am glad that some of the bloggers I read have started micro-blogging - I am not interested in reading what they ate for dinner last night.
I like traditional personal webpages.
Maybe, now that I think of it, it might be more interesting to start storing carrier pigeons or messages inside bottles, hmmmm...
One great thing about the web is that you can structure your content however you want.