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 of this city (Edward P. Jones) or treat things with a very broad brush (Christopher Buckley).  
Greenversations
The Environmental [...]

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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 in between.”  
But the highlight for me was the keynote by Mary Gaitskill, author of [...]

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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 - basically K-12 students.  Interestingly, one point Ackerman made was that what we consider “technology” are the things [...]

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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 technology plus some interesting links to check out:
1. Phone and Internet will Merge
In the future, [...]

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