Tag Archives: Writing

Social Media — What is it Good For? (for me)

By Gib | Monday, July 28, 2008

A blogger I read wrote a great article about his looking back at 3 months without blogging. I’ve been out of writing real posts for at least that long, what with directing/producing my play with music (yeah, wrote the songs, too).
Social Media — What is it Good For?
Below the jump is my look at [...]

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Battlestar Galactica — the last season? Or The Last Supper?

By Gib | Tuesday, March 11, 2008

What the frak?!? Coasting down Melrose Avenue this morning, I looked up and saw this image.
Does it look familiar to you? It did to me, too. Let’s compare this great billboard with the famous image it’s inspired by after the jump.

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Andrew Sullivan Takes a Vote on Comments

By Gib | Monday, March 3, 2008

Über-blogger, author & tv commentator Andrew Sullivan asked his readers to vote for whether they would like comments or not. He advised his readers (I’m one) that they could vote more than once if they felt strongly:
“You can vote any number of times, so those who care strongly about this - pro and con [...]

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The AMPTP’s How-to Guide for Scabbing

By Gib | Sunday, January 6, 2008

The AMPTP website is worth a few posts. No one has written about the subtext of everything on there.
Here’s a first stab.
The questions they put on their Frequently Asked Questions were surprising to me. I went to their site to find their side of the story right away. My questions, as a [...]

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Mainstream Media Outlets, Mainstream Media Writers — but still blogs

By Gib | Saturday, November 10, 2007

Peter Tolan is writing a blog about the Writers Guild of America strike.
What’s fascinating for me about his being asked — and his writing the blog — is how blogging can be simply a platform for internet publishing… but it can also be about the singularity of voice.
Tolan’s blog feels like a blog in its [...]

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extremely brief episodes (2007-10-31)

By | Wednesday, October 31, 2007

Received my new BlackBerry — a Curve! — writing blog with pictures & Utterz will be great now. #
@apenny I didn’t receive that message! Maybe Pandora targets their messages to those most susceptible. #
@apenny where you at? I’m in West Hollywood, California. #
@apenny Hope you’re ok! I try to schedule earthquakes for when [...]

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extremely brief episodes (2007-10-27)

By Gib | Saturday, October 27, 2007

Jott doesn’t like my diction or something or maybe it’s pulling a Bartelmy the Scribener — “I’d prefer not to” — transcribe my reminders. #
So Jott will tell me it doesn’t work & then I’ll receive a message to the same effect & then later receive a transcription. Perseverance! #
Jott transcribed my message in traffic [...]

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Seeing Redd & Reading Frank Beddor (extremely brief episodes (2007-10-25)

By Gib | Thursday, October 25, 2007

Frank Beddor’s new book takes Alyss further into Wonderland

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Big Shots — ABC Publishes Pilot Script

By Gib |

ABC believes their viewers can read. And would like to read a pilot script.

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What Were You doing on the Internet 20 Years Ago?

By Gib | Wednesday, October 24, 2007

I was sending email, reading messages, writing an occasional message.I kid you not. I was on the internet as a kid.

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