Devoted to publishing, publishers and to those who craft the written word

Sorry for the lax posting the last two days, I've been swamped with work at my various writing jobs. Which brings me to today's point.

Are we heroes or victims of the online revolution? 

I constantly fret that online publishing will shackle writers to pulp fiction production schedules. I'm scared that ten years from now, thousands of frenzied writers writing millions of disposable blog posts, all of us earning Depression-era salaries. 

But you know what cheers me up? Reading people like Orante Churm, who are cheering on our new generation of web-based writers, telling us to keep on writing. Dig his essay for Inside Higher Ed, a bit of encouragement for all us bloggers, journalists, writers, or whatever you want to call us, toiling in the the digital trenches.

Check it out: 

"Bérubé added, however, that he felt blogging was not a form of publishing (at least not one worthy for the c.v.), that it was 'marginal in the best sense of the word.' My writing here is not academic, nor was meant to be, and often it’s not even about the academy, but it’s of publishable quality and worthy of my c.v. That’s why I took an interest in the recent Ithaka Report, which says 'the boundaries between formal and informal publication will blur.' (Also, I always do what IHE resident intellectual Scott McLemee says to do.)"

(Thanks, Maud!)