Google has created an interesting new product for Android-based mobile devices called Google Goggles, which allows you to do visual searches based on images your phone’s camera captures. Needless to say, this is just one more step on the long road to the visual search revolution, as described in Pop Apocalypse. It’s all happening right […]
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Google has created an interesting new product for Android-based mobile devices called Google Goggles, which allows you to do visual searches based on images your phone’s camera captures. Needless to say, this is just one more step on the long road to the visual search revolution, as described in Pop Apocalypse. It’s all happening right […]
Lauren Davis over at io9 has written one of the most perceptive reviews of Pop Apocalypse I’ve seen yet out there in the mediasphere. Davis concludes: Pop Apocalypse is a genuinely frightening book, not for its apocalyptic prophesies, but for its peek five minutes into the future. It’s suggestion that photo-tagging software could someday turn […]
I’ve been woefully negligent as a blogger (and, I should say, as a fiction writer), too busy putting the finishing touches on my dissertation to do much else. My primary chapters are all done, and my introduction and conclusion are mostly written. Two-three more days — finishing the intro and conclusion and doing a global […]
I received an interesting response to my posting on SellaBand from someone who works for a related service, Slicethepie. Turns out Slicethepie has implemented some of the ideas I mentioned in my previous post. Slicethepie “is a financing platform for the music industry that enables new and established Artists to raise money directly from Music […]
Richard Florida blogs about a new Dutch music startup called SellaBand, a service that aims “[t]o unite Artists and Fans in an independent movement that aims to level the playing field in the global music industry.” SellaBand tries to connect what they call “Believers” with aspiring musicians. As a Believer, you can invest money toward […]
In the interest of getting word about Pop Apocalypse out to the general public, and of meeting people with excellent taste in literature, I’ve decided to make a special offer to my readers. Here’s the deal. If you are part of a book club and are interested in reading Pop Apocalypse, I would love to […]
I feel the urge to comment here today, the release-date of Pop Apocalypse, but I don’t have anything particularly original to say about the release of the novel. Obviously enough, I’m super-excited that the book is getting out there into the world, but I also feel pretty powerless to do anything to shape its reception. […]
Those of you who live in LA, take note: I’ll be in town for the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books this weekend, participating in a panel called “Fiction: The Post-Modern World” on Sunday at 1:30 p.m. in Franz Hall on the UCLA campus. With me on the panel:
The Broom of the System
3 Nov, 2007 in David Foster Wallace, dissertation, hipster chapter, Infinite Jest, person chapter, Pop Apocalypse, postirony, The Broom of the SystemI finished reading David Foster Wallace’s The Broom of the System today (for the first time), part of my preparation to write the Person Chapter of the diss. The writing of the Hipster Chapter also continues, less apace than I’d prefer, but still. I’m reading a fantastic history of the hugely-important literary journal Kenyon Review […]