DECEMBER 8 — DIEGO RIVERA Great Mexican muralist, Marxist, agit-prop conspirator. DECEMBER 8, 2009 HOLIDAYS AND FESTIVALS BUDDHIST BODHI DAY: ROHATSU. FEAST OF THE IMMACULATE CONCEPTION.������ TAKE IT IN THE EAR DAY. ALSO ON DECEMBER 8 IN HISTORY… 1810 — World peace advocate Elihu Burritt, the...

A retrospective on one of my heroes. Showing just for this week at Pitchfork. [via Caketran's twitter feed] [I got to bump heads with Wesley once before he died. I bought a piece of his art at a show and he had me bump heads and growl with him. I miss Wesley.]

1. Find a friend with a successful blog and tell him you'll take it over for two weeks, then get quiet and a little lazy and all but ignore the blog on your first day. 2. Make lima bean soup....

Early last week, I realized I have too much time on my hands. I realized this because I Googled "tiger woods voicemail slow jam remix." Obviously, the only rehabilitation for having become the sort of person who Googles "tiger woods...

When is an eBook not an book? Over at GalleyCat's digitally obsessed sibling, eBookNewser, they reported on a eBook update to an old classic.

Here's more from the post: "iPhone app developer Oceanhouse Media has announced the release of three Seuss Enterprises-licensed apps based on the...

Many are asking: How will publishing survive this recession? But maybe we should be asking something else: How did publishing survive the Great Depression?

Digital book blogger Mike Cane aggregated a stream of Great Depression research, highlighting some innovative solutions...

Several months ago, I joined a new community for women writers, She Writes, and then I never really participated in the site because with all the networking sites out there, I had a difficult time justifying the investment of my time into yet another social networking site. The interface is a bit bewildering and chaotic but [...]

GalleyCat expanded today, sharing its digital space with mediabistro.com's thirteenth blog, eBookNewser. Our digitally obsessed sibling will cover eBooks, digital reading devices, publishing technology, smartphone reading applications, digital self-publishing, and the rapidly evolving future of...

A rare behind-the-scenes conversation with Larry David about his creative becoming and processes, in 6 parts (takes a minute to get going, you can skip to around 5:00 in part 1 to get to the meat of it, and then parts 2-5 follow in links from there…