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Tantalising tweet

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Do you think the BBC does this deliberately in order to increase their clicks? has some poor sub not noticed the headline character limit? or was the insult too terrible to twitter?

The full sentence is here, for the curious.

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Saraswati has been good to us

The goddess of music could not better have bestowed her bounty. In each of her four hands she holds a ticket to this evening’s performance by Laura Marling in the iTunes Live London Sessions at the AIR Studios. Two are for Hg and two are for me.

Attentive readers will remember that Hg and I went to an earlier event of Laura Marling’s which turned out to be one of the best gigs ever. He videoed, I snapped.

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Laura was joint first in Hg’s review of the music of 2007.

We both entered the draw for tickets to the iTunes recordings as soon as it was announced. You may well guess how chuffed we are to going. I’ll be taking my camera more in hope than anticipation of actually being able to employ it.

Now all I have to do is sort out some rather complicated childcare arrangements.

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Cataphatic

A friend dropped by for lunch. We were yakking on about something or other of enormous interest and importance. Yak, yak, yak, rhubarb, rhubarb, rhubarb we went while I made coffee and he leaned on the kitchen counter.

Meanwhile there was a background noise of which we were both, it subsequently transpired, subliminally aware without giving it sufficient consideration. A sort of viscous wet slapping noise. Suddenly there was a piercing scream.

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Monstrosity

Thanks to Krista for introducing me to this marvel. I thought today’s monster was a girl, but no, according to his daily monster page he’s a he. The subsequent book comes with a DVD which seems like a really good idea since the genesis of each monster and the ensuing development is a large part of the pleasure. And it’s an interesting way of tackling the web-to-paper transition.

I’m assuming the web presence came before the book. As it did in the case of Andre Jordan‘s book If you’re happy and you know it… which Firstspawn was flicking through in a bookshop the other day. “Hold on a moment, I recognise that name…” Yup, he’s a blogger.

I met him once, briefly, in a pub at a blogmeet at which there were not one, not two but three bloggers-with-book-deals. I haven’t read any of the books (or indeed the blogs beyond an initial sampling) so am not in a position to give any opinion on them.

Clearly my early decision not to attempt to pursue a career in publishing was indeed wise.

I could bang on for a bit about blogs, digital production, publishing and books but I shan’t since no doubt my thoughts on the subject are not original and, as has already been demonstrated, I’d make a crap publisher. However I can point to a few reviews of Ultimate Blogs: Masterworks from the Wild Web by Sarah Boxer which discuss the blog/print transition although, let it be remembered, these are themselves hybredised offspring being the online versions of paper media: the LRB, Newsweek and the NYT.

Right. I am late. I must swat my procrastignat and get going.