{"id":391,"date":"2008-12-29T17:20:54","date_gmt":"2008-12-29T22:20:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.goer.org\/wordpress\/in_which_mur_lafferty_and_i_singlehandedly_save_th"},"modified":"2013-11-17T22:24:51","modified_gmt":"2013-11-17T22:24:51","slug":"in_which_mur_lafferty_and_i_singlehandedly_save_th","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.goer.org\/Journal\/2008\/12\/in_which_mur_lafferty_and_i_singlehandedly_save_th.html","title":{"rendered":"In Which Mur Lafferty and I Singlehandedly Save the Publishing Industry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As everyone knows, the publishing industry is in trouble. Like a drunken author stumbling across a campus quad, groping for enough saucy anecdotes about teen co-eds to fill out one last priapic literary novel, so too is the publishing industry groping for solutions to shrinking margins and an increasingly distracted public.<\/p>\n<p>Well, fear not, publishing industry! I bring you&#8230; <em>the future<\/em>. Publishing 3.0! Publishing for Teh Internets generation! Publishing with Rounded Corners and Pastel Colors!<\/p>\n<h2><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/evangoer\/favorites\">Afternoon of the CyberMonkeys: An Interactive Collaborative Twitterfic Publication (with special guest star: Mur Lafferty)<\/a><\/h2>\n<p>Note that this new super-advanced format has some drawbacks:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The posts are in reverse time order. This means that the best way to read <cite>Afternoon of the CyberMonkeys<\/cite> is to click the link, <strong>immediately scroll down<\/strong>, and start reading from bottom to top.<\/li>\n<li>If at some point in the future I decide to change my Twitter favorites for any reason, the story will be destroyed.<\/li>\n<li>Unlike works of fiction on physical paper, Twitterfic works are subject to &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.urbandictionary.com\/define.php?term=failwhale\">Failwhales<\/a>&#8221; and other Web 2.0-style mishaps.<\/li>\n<li>The story isn&#8217;t very good.<\/li>\n<li>There is still no revenue model.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>But these are minor bugs that I&#8217;m sure we can all work around.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Note that this new super-advanced format has some drawbacks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-391","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goer.org\/Journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goer.org\/Journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goer.org\/Journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goer.org\/Journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goer.org\/Journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=391"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.goer.org\/Journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":756,"href":"https:\/\/www.goer.org\/Journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391\/revisions\/756"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goer.org\/Journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goer.org\/Journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goer.org\/Journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}