I wandered into a bookstore in Estes Park, Colorado just to see what was up. I bought "Being Wrong: Adventures in the Margin of Error" by Kathryn Schulz. I liked the book very much and it is one of the few books I have a web page of quotes from.
I get the Atlantic Wire, a free weekday newsletter featuring just five excepts from columns that magazine finds worthwhile that day. Since Twitter is in the news with its IPO, some items are about Twitter. Even since reading Being Wrong, I am a fan of Kathryn Schultz and I follow her on Twitter. This item caught my eye.
The link below is worth following, since Schultz is a mind-opening and mind-nurturing writer. She writes about "the goddamned bluebird" (the Twitter logo). She writes:
Collectively, the people I follow on Twitter — book nerds, science nerds, journalists, the uncategorizably interesting — come pretty close to my dream community.
That is my Twitter experience, too. You can see on Twitter who Kathryn Schulz follows and who I follow, too.
(from Atlantic Wire) Kathryn Schulz at Daily Intelligencer on how Twitter "hijacked" her mind. When Schulz was writing her first book in 2010, her agents encouraged her to increase her digital presence: "Twitter, man. The medium I mocked most. The one I joined last, and was sure I'd quit first. The hardest to initially understand, and the most seemingly inane. ... The one most at odds with my own country-mile prose. Also: the one I adore. The one to which I am addicted. And the one that, over the course of the past three years, in tiny nibbles exactly the size of this sentence, has proceeded to eat me alive." She continues, "collectively, the people I follow on Twitter — book nerds, science nerds, journalists, the uncategorizably interesting — come pretty close to my dream community." She's caught herself "thinking of — and thinking in — tweets." National Geographic writer Ed Yong tweets, "Everyone can stop writing about Twitter cos @kathrynschulz's piece is peerless. (Jonathan Franzen should def stop)." Slate's science writer Laura Helmuth responds, "Innit? Love 'sentences with friends.' Feeling better & clearer about all the time we spend here." New Yorker staff writer David Grann tweets, "This is the best & most insightful piece I've read about Twitter."
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Bill
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