My twitter friend Warren Ellis gave out a humble tweet about his article being featured in UK Wired.. I have been a follower of him on twitter for quite some time now. It all began after i read a couple of his blog entries, he can REALLY Write!
So I promptly read his article and really enjoyed reading it.
For someone who earns a living through consideration of outbreaks of The Future, it’s all useful information, but that’s all it is. For the parsing and condensation of that information into knowledge, it seems we still need the structure of print publishing, a form that insists on time to think, digest and present. While I will write about things that relate to Wired UK’s fields of interest in the coming months, for this first issue it’s worth standing outside in the cold away from the internet and consider why print and newspaper/magazine structures still exist. Because reporting and editing are honest-to-God actual fucking jobs that don’t get taught at the Huffington Post and the Daily Beast, and because all those faceless blog-networks infesting the Bay Area like tongue herpes have no interest in their minimum-wage blogmonkeys thinking about anything bigger than their hitcount.
It did get me thinking, about the wars that are waged between creative types and the bottom line types [money, advts, hits..] They are interdependent.. Without an article written to attract, there would be no hits etc.
Today has been a day of firsts. First it was Warren’s article, then I discovered Daniel Silva the author. I am so enjoying reading his book. , “The Secret Servant“. Yes I know its unpolitical and old-fashioned to read a book. I cannot visualize myself using a Kindle in the near future either! Coffee and a book! Thats the life..
Have you noticed that anything well done needs time be it a a baby or a house or a book or even an article? While geekdom for the sake of geekiness is fine, what really turns me on is well written prose.
Without giving away too much, here is an excerpt from the book..
It was a day to engage in what the Dutch so fondly refer to as gezelligheid, the pursuit of small pleasures: an aimless stroll through the flower stalls of the Bloemenmarkt, a lager or two in a good bar in the Rembrandtplein, or for those so inclined, a bit of fine cannabis in the brown coffeehouses of the Haarlemmerstraat.
Both Warren and Daniel, evoke pictures in your head with their prose. Daniel Silva can be poetic in the midst of a thriller, and Warren can be quirky while stating facts :) Writing at its bloody best!
