The Life of O’Reilly: TOC panel next week
Next week I’ll be moderating a panel at the O’Reilly Tools of Change for Publishing conference. The session is entitled, Literary Bloggers: The New Online Insiders. Here’s a description:
While traditional publications such as The New York Times and Publisher’s Weekly continue to cover the book world, an entirely new (and, in most cases, totally independent) breed has sprung up online: literary bloggers. These bloggers not only cover the art and process of writing, but also the industry itself and its various players.
From web sites that trade in publishing industry gossip, to blogs that teach you how to get published, literary bloggers have created a whole new world online that is quickly proving as indispensable as its traditional print-based counterparts. And now that they’re here to stay, what can we learn from literary bloggers? How are they not only participating in the publishing discussion, but changing it? And what effect are these bloggers having on the industry (not to mention its content)?
This panel will examine all of these questions and more, putting in context the hype and the facts, showing how bloggers are helping to usher the book industry into the era of Publishing 2.0.
I have four really great panelists, Ron Hogan, Mark Sarvas, Kassia Kroszer, and Maud Newton, so come by and check us out if you’re attending the conference.
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What is the date and time of the session?
Tuesday at 11AM in the Shubert/Uris Room.
Will the papers be available?
I hope you will blog about this. I’m chairing a panel on writers’s blogs for the Washington Independent Writers Association Fiction Seminar (in DC) this weekend, so I’ve been blogging about blogging all week, and still trying (after 2 years)to try to get my head around the the concept. My sense right now is that most, even highly educated people, have no clue that they need to develop radically new skills to, as I like to put it (though probably if I bothered to “google” it I’d find someone else already has) sculpt their own info-scape. And certainly, blogs can form an important be part of a quality info-scape.
Indispensable to what/who? That kind of language eats literature and poops it out later. I understand that publishers need to try to be business-savvy, but doesn’t a question like “what effect are these bloggers having on the industry (not to mention its content)?” just make you want to lie down and cry? Oh, well. Better go try to sculpt myself a quality info-scape.