Category: Links Dump

Keeping the Keys to the Kingdom « Easily Distracted “I’m very much with my colleagues in their call for a renewal of practical wisdom. But in their view-and mine-one of the consequences of such a turn would be that we’d stop trying to make systems, rules and structures do to us, for us, with us,… Continue reading Links for 2011-04-19

TV staffing: uniquely awful, but survivable | johnaugust.com “Here is what it means to be a TV writer: You are paid to work in conditions that vastly accelerate the degradation of your body while brainstorming fantasy lives for the select group of your co-workers who work in conditions designed to make their already-exceptional bodies look… Continue reading Links for 2011-04-18

By Ken Levine: How to create a hit network drama “Fame and riches can be yours! Procedural/action dramas are in and you too can create one if you just follow these very simple steps: Always start with a couple. He must be boyishly handsome and she must be smoking hot. You can go “mature” but… Continue reading Links for 2011-04-16

The Defenders – NYTimes.com “One of those on the ramparts peering out into the night was a blue-eyed, dark-haired young Irishman named John Thompson, a private, who left what may be the only surviving description of the battle by a rank-and-file soldier: a long letter that he sent two weeks later to his father back… Continue reading Links for 2011-04-13

Making Light: *Spoilers* Sucker Punch *Spoilers* “Imagine The Matrix as written by M. Night Shyamalan, casting no one you’ve ever heard of, and shot as soft-core porn. That’s Sucker Punch.” (tags: movies culture review blogs making-light) WTF: Journal publishes ESP B-u-n-k | “The article ends, as these things often do, with a discussion section. This… Continue reading Links for 2011-04-12

Cocktail Party Physics: so you want to be a science consultant Step Zero: Live in Los Angeles. (tags: science education outreach media television movies blogs cocktail-party books communication)

“Tie this to your lanyard, Billy Collins” “My brother Aryaman (the talented one) writes: “A colleague of mine who is interested in pursuing science education after her PhD was directed to a collection of (I think apocryphal) answers to science questions from 5th and 6th graders in Japan. I noticed many of them were almost… Continue reading Links for 2011-04-10

Confessions of a Community College Dean: Remedial Levels “[T]he CCRC found that the single strongest predictor of student success that’s actually under the college’s control — so I’m ignoring gender and income of student, since we take all comers — is length of sequence. The shorter the sequence, the better they do. The worst thing… Continue reading Links for 2011-04-09

How Much is a Dragon Worth? – Michael Noer – Backslash – Forbes “To silence the skepticism and to give fans of the list some idea of just how deep the rabbit hole goes, I’ve decided to flash a little bit of imaginary ankle and walk through a typical Fictional 15 investigation, in this case… Continue reading Links for 2011-04-08

Revenue Streams 2010 « Whatever “In my continuing quest to demystify things related to the business of writing, at least inasmuch as they relate to me, today I am going to talk revenue streams. As many of you know, I am a huge proponent of writers having multiple revenue streams, so that when one of… Continue reading Links for 2011-04-07