Posts for category ‘the borg’

And it’s allll links, baby.

- The New York Times recently featured Salt Lake City in its “36 Hours In...” series. I think you should go ahead and make it 72 hours. There are so many children’s and YA authors per square inch here, if you stay long enough you’ll probably be here during someone’s book release party. (For instance, Jessica Day George’s, tomorrow afternoon at 2 p.m. at the King’s English.)

- Maureen Johnson wrote a manifesto. Though I think there are definitely some practical things to think about in terms of “brand” and networking, MoJoFesto gets a big thumbs up from me.

- Speaking of manifestos, there’s this song, which I discovered via Pandora, and it pretty much blows my mind. It’s Josh Garrels’ Zion & Babylon. Scroll down. It is hot musically, too. He’s got his music streaming on his site – check it out. I don’t really know how I didn’t hear about him before. I ordered a couple of his CDs; right now Over Oceans is my favorite. He’s kind of a Jesusy Matisyahu, or something? I don’t know. It’s just really good.

Okay, that’s all I have. Pretty soon, I’m vacating this space for a large-ish chunk of time. More on that later. Have a great weekend!

Eight Washington Post reporters attempt to go offline for a week (Thanks Twitter friend Jasmine for link.)

How our brains are being shaped like so much Silly Putty (via Mike Martin)

Last night’s Radio Active show about Facebook made me paranoid that I quit. While the guests admitted FB’s big privacy issues, they also said that at least having an account helps you control what’s been said about you and what pictures, etc. of you other people put up. But then, I think “image control” is one of the major things I don’t like about web 2.0. My image is between me and God and my close friends and family, right? Does that apply even if you have a job that makes you a somewhat public person? I don’t know. It should. Unless you are, like, the President.

Take the holiday weekend off from screens and enjoy yourself. Go look for a Western Tanager! (I saw one on my walk Wednesday. Blew my mind. It is so bright!) Soak up some vitamin D. Listen to the new collection of Kris Kristofferson demos from the very beginning of his amazing career. And for the love of all that is holy, don’t text while driving! See you back here in one piece on Tuesday.

Thanks for all the virtual high-fives regarding the National Book Award stuff. I’m excited.

I also want to give a shout-out to Bullitt Central High in Shepherdsville, KY, who had me visit the Spring Reading Fling via Skype to talk to a group that read Story of a Girl. Thanks so much for all your great questions and thoughts!

Around the o’sphere…

- Team Babymouse at Provo Children’s Book Festival tomorrow (plus Ann Dee Ellis and me on blogging panel, many other great local authors).

- Caroline Langston writes a beautiful post at the Image blog about her adolescent crush on a teacher that was both truly sexy and truly innocent.

- The schedule for the Summer Blog Blast Tour is up at Chasing Ray. Looks like a good one, as usual.

- The Quo Vadis blog comments on Virginia Heffernan’s Demise of Datebooks column (I have a Quo Vadis planner – a Minister – love it. I also use Google calendar synced to my iPhone. Are you a paper calendar person, or strictly high-tech?)

- 21 Jump Street, the awesomely, awesomely bad series from the late 80s, is now available on Netflix Watch Instantly. You are so welcome! I have to say that before I re-watched the pilot, I would have only called the series “awesome” without the “bad,” but…wow. TV has come a long way since 1987.

(Note Johnny's headpiece - a forerunner to Captain Jack Sparrow's 'do?)

- Man am I glad I got out of Facebook when I did. Though Twitter attempted to explain Diaspora to me, I’m not quite there yet.

Have a great weekend!