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Fantastic Michael Wolff column in New York Magazine this week: The music industry is becoming the book business.
Fantastic Michael Wolff column in New York Magazine this week: The music industry is becoming the book business.
Building brand into structure at Boxes and Arrows.
This essay deals with the redesign of NetWert, which, if you’re reading this sentence, has already taken place and thus renders the essay moot.
There’s a netwert.com redesign that is thisdamnclose to launching but isn’t ready yet. It’s powered by a fine PHP and MySQL back-end that was lovingly prepared for me by my good friend David—six months ago—and I am finally, slowly, aggravatingly debugging it daily.
I need to relaunch this soon, because this design is ripe for replacement, because I know how few of my readership realizes there was a weblog over there [juts chin to the right] for the past six months, because I have taken a shine to not using FTP to post to the site. But I’m not a good enough programmer to repair all my mistakes, so the new site is not yet live.
Until such time occurs as I can get the new guy out the door, I’ve gone ahead and reformatted this page anyway. Weblog entries (without permalinks) are getting thrown in this main column, along with usability essays and journal ditties. That’s the way they’ll be in the redesign, to some extent, although it will make much more sense once the categorized database is in place. For now it’s a bit of a mess, and for that I apologize. And once I’m relaunched, I can spare you and me both from this obnoxious weblogging-about-my-weblog shtick, for which I must also apologize.
In any case, I do update NetWert just about every business day, and this is the page you should continue to check for said updates, and with that, I’m going to get back to my regularly scheduled (and now gloriously disjointed) prattle.
P.S. Yes, I am aware of the alarmingly high amount of adverbs currently on this page (there’s two more!) but that is an issue for another day.
Sadly and unsurprisingly—and not a little bit exhilaratingly—I have found myself doing lots of the little (marginally annoying) things authors do when their books are published.
Like what? You ask:
Sadly and unsurprisingly—and not a little bit exhilaratingly—I have found myself doing lots of the little (marginally annoying) things authors do when their books are published.
Like what? You ask.
Like, I tell everyone “My book is out!” even if they didn’t know I was writing one.
I whip out a copy of the book, uninvited and unannounced, if I happen to be carrying it, to show just about anyone I can, from my high school friends to my girlfriend’s doorman. This usually just precedes the “My book is out!” announcement.
I got a cheap and obvious thrill out of seeing Amy’s copy of her book arrive in its Amazon.com box last night. (And no, silly, I didn’t force her to buy one; she decided it would be fun to support me. Even though my free-book box is in her apartment. And it was fun.)
I had my brother ask at the desk at his local Barnes & Noble if they had my book in stock. (They didn’t. Dammit.)
I check the Amazon page for my book several times a day to peek at my Page Rank. (It’s gotten as high as 6,378, which is not too shabby for a tome that isn’t available at retail yet.)
I don’t feel any more important or special than I did six months ago, but if you’re wondering about this whole newly-published-author thing: Hell yeah it’s fun.
Q. How can you turn $55 into $80 without trying?
A. Buy tickets through Ticketmaster.com.
I’ll spare the usual rant, but just FYI: A pair of $27.50 concert tickets are going to cost me $40 apiece (before shipping costs) when I buy them later today. Who’da thought I’d long for the days of the $3.50 convenience charge?
NYCbloggers.com tracks who blogs in New York and where they reside. Look for me on the 4 line, but email before you stop by; I’m not home much.
David Gallagher has compiled “a handy guide to some of the less famous ‘Spider-Man’ locations around Manhattan.”