{"id":5625,"date":"2011-05-30T07:01:24","date_gmt":"2011-05-30T07:01:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2011\/05\/30\/links-for-2011-05-30\/"},"modified":"2011-05-30T07:01:24","modified_gmt":"2011-05-30T07:01:24","slug":"links-for-2011-05-30","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2011\/05\/30\/links-for-2011-05-30\/","title":{"rendered":"Links for 2011-05-30"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul class=\"delicious\">\n<li>\n<div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/suvudu.com\/2011\/05\/guest-post-from-author-nick-mamatas-the-writers-life-actually-its-awesome.html\">Guest Post from Author Nick Mamatas: &#8220;The Writer&#8217;s Life: Actually, It&#8217;s Awesome!&#8221; \u00c2\u00ab Suvudu &#8211; Science Fiction and Fantasy Books, Movies, Comics, and Games<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">&#8220;In my new book Starve Better, I talk about writing short subjects&#8211;both fiction and non-fiction&#8211;with an eye toward writing effectively and efficiently and making some money. Not good money so much as fast money. Relatively fast anyway, if slower than a weekly paycheck. For ten years I played the full-time freelance game before deciding to take a full-time job, and though I love predictable cash flow and dental insurance and paid time off and such, there are still plenty of things I miss about living the writing life twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week. There are plenty of articles describing all the hardships writers face, and tons of statistics about how unlikely it is for a writer to &#8220;make it&#8221; in any real way, but there are lots of positives to the writing life, even for nobodies like me.&#8221;<\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-tags\">(tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/writing\">writing<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/publishing\">publishing<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/business\">business<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/blogs\">blogs<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/books\">books<\/a>)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.readwriteweb.com\/archives\/new_twitter_feature_offers_out_of_body_experience.php\">New Twitter Feature Offers &#8220;Out of Body&#8221; Experience<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">&#8220;Twitter has begun rolling out a new feature that lets users view the world through another perspective, specifically through the perspective of other specific people on Twitter. The new feature will appear on the \/following page of any profile on the site and will display the most recent messages from the Twitter users that a profile owner is following. The page currently just shows who they are following.<\/p>\n<p>In other words: if you look at my profile on Twitter you can see not only who I am following but you can also see Twitter as I see Twitter. This might seem like a small change, but philosophically it&#8217;s a big one. Two words come to mind: Empathy and Privacy.&#8221;<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-tags\">(tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/twitter\">twitter<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/technology\">technology<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/internet\">internet<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/blogs\">blogs<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/culture\">culture<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/privacy\">privacy<\/a>)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cracked.com\/blog\/5-things-nobody-tells-you-about-being-poor\/\">5 Things Nobody Tells You About Being Poor | Cracked.com<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">&#8220;A bunch of you reading this are among the 45 million &#8220;working poor&#8221; in America, and if you&#8217;re not, you know somebody who is. Like me.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not blaming anybody but myself for getting into this situation (I was drunk for two straight decades) and I&#8217;m not asking for anybody&#8217;s sympathy. What I am saying is that people are quick to tell you to pick yourself up by your bootstraps and just stop being poor. What they don&#8217;t understand is the series of intricate financial traps that makes that incredibly difficult.<br \/>\nIf you&#8217;re not poor, that&#8217;s awesome. I&#8217;m not mad at you, or jealous. Hopefully you&#8217;ll never find out that &#8230;&#8221;<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-tags\">(tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/class-war\">class-war<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/economics\">economics<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/society\">society<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/culture\">culture<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/us\">us<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/lists\">lists<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/cracked\">cracked<\/a>)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Guest Post from Author Nick Mamatas: &#8220;The Writer&#8217;s Life: Actually, It&#8217;s Awesome!&#8221; \u00c2\u00ab Suvudu &#8211; Science Fiction and Fantasy Books, Movies, Comics, and Games &#8220;In my new book Starve Better, I talk about writing short subjects&#8211;both fiction and non-fiction&#8211;with an eye toward writing effectively and efficiently and making some money. Not good money so much&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2011\/05\/30\/links-for-2011-05-30\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Links for 2011-05-30<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5625","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-links_dump","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5625","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5625"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5625\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5625"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5625"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5625"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}