Monthly Archives: April 2008

Friday’s Links

Posted on April 25, 2008 by Joe Flood

Here’s what interested me this week: Washington City Paper: Building the Great DC Novel Surprisingly, no one has written a Bonfire of the Vanities for DC.  The article is correct that most novels of DC are just about a niche … Continue reading →

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The Three Things Writers Need

Posted on April 15, 2008 by Joe Flood

I spent a beautiful spring afternoon at the Conversations and Connections conference held April 5 in Washington, DC.  This was a writer’s conference featuring “experts in fiction, nonfiction, poetry, writing for children, making connections, using the web, marketing, and everything … Continue reading →

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Library of Congress Lecture on Digital Natives

Posted on April 9, 2008 by Joe Flood

  Our future digital overlords. I went to the Library of Congress recently to hear distinguished scholar and child-development expert Edith Ackerman discuss “The Anthropology of Digital Natives”. Digital natives are defined as people who grew up with the Internet … Continue reading →

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David Pogue’s Three Megatrends

Posted on April 8, 2008 by Joe Flood

I attended FOSE (a government technology expo in DC) last week and saw David Pogue’s keynote.  He’s the technology columnist for the New York Times.  Here are my notes from the session with the three big “megatrends” Pogue sees with … Continue reading →

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