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Arianna Huffington is keynote speaker at the Decatur Book Festival tonight!
Link: The AJC Decatur Book Festival | Event Schedule.
Sorry for the last minute notice. I'm not too organized these days.
It's at Agnes Scott College, Presser Hall, 8-9 pm.
I've always wanted an excuse to poke around the Agnes Scott campus. It's so beautiful.
Anybody feel like going? I plan to be there. While she isn't directly scheduled to talk about Huffington Post (slated to talk about her book on work/life balance), I expect she'll get some questions about the Post during the Q&A session, if there is one.
I'm a fan of what she's done with the Post, both in its navigation and architecture, and its sense of being a "stable" of a wide range of well-known people. She's given them a forum to blog and unleashed a powerful and now influential collective voice on the blogosphere and beyond.
In particular, I hope to ask her for more information about how she set up her deal with Yahoo! News, both to repurpose content from her site, but also getting primo structural representation in the opinion section of the Yahoo! News page. Did she make the deal the way it has usually been done with newspaper syndicated columnists? Or was there more of a trade or exchange aspect involved? Did she approach Yahoo! News, or did Yahoo! News approach her? I'm just really curious about the business model of the arrangement. Inquiring minds want to know!
Keynote Address
The AJC DBF is proud to announce political columnist Arianna Huffington as its keynote speaker! Join Ms. Huffington as she opens the festival Friday night at Presser Hall at Agnes Scott College with a discussion of her new book, On Becoming Fearless… In Love, Work, and Life.
There's a ton of other events at the conference, plus a festival atmosphere with a book market on the Decatur Square, a barbecue and fireworks among the many things scheduled.
Activities In-Depth:
That grid schedule is just a BEAR to read tho. Wish they'd redesign it. Here's some other events that pertain to blogging:
PANELS – SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 2
E-Storytelling: In which we discuss the new form of writing commonly referred to as online fiction, from short stories to comedy pieces to email-text-and-Instant-Message-as-storytelling device. 10 a.m.
- John Warner, editor of McSweeney’s Internet Tendency
- Jack Pendarvis, author of The Mysterious Secret of Valuable Treasure, Pushcart Prize winner
- Jamie Allen, editor of The Duck & Herring Co.
Real Writers Blog: In which we discuss whether today's writers need a web site, a blog, a podcast, and/or a MySpace account. 1 p.m.
- Laurel Snyder, poet and NPR contributor
- Tayari Jones, author of Leaving Atlanta and The Untelling
- Touré, contributing editor with Rolling Stone
- Amy Guth, author of Three Fallen Women
I'm also interested in this session by The Atlantic Monthly fiction editor. Gotten a few rejection letters from him over the years! But I think I need special (free) registration, and I haven't heard back yet.
Magazine Fiction: In which Atlantic fiction editor C. Michael Curtis discusses the realities of rejection, cover letters, and other literary matters. 5 p.m.
- C. Michael Curtis, Atlantic Monthly, author of Faith: Stories and God: Stories.
I think you need special registration for this one too, but I know there are comedy writers in this group, so I thought I'd pass it on:
WORKSHOPS – SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 2
That's Not Funny: A Definitive Guide to Written Hilarity, Wit, and Mirth, By Prof. Rev. John Warner, Humorologist. 3 p.m. – 5 p.m.
Political bloggers would probably love to be a fly on the wall in the $13 admission brunch with a former editor of The Nation. I dunno if any spaces are still available tho.
And one of the Indigo Girls, Emily Saliers, will also be speaking on a topic with her father.
September 1, 2006 at 11:45 AM in Bloggers, Chris B, Citizen Journalism, Current Affairs, Food and Drink, Interaction Design, Logistics, Marketing, Newspapers, PR, Usability, Weblog Philosophy | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack
Mark Chernesky and Podcasts
Dave Winer and Mark Chernesky in dialogue about podcast directories, New York Times podcasts, and CNN.
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