{"id":3616,"date":"2011-02-22T08:52:05","date_gmt":"2011-02-22T16:52:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/caitlinburke.com\/?p=3616"},"modified":"2011-02-22T08:52:05","modified_gmt":"2011-02-22T16:52:05","slug":"margaret-atwood-at-tools-of-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/caitlinburke.com\/blog\/2011\/02\/22\/margaret-atwood-at-tools-of-change\/","title":{"rendered":"The Anchovies Are Restless"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/radar.oreilly.com\/2011\/02\/margaret-atwood-toc-2011.html\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/caitlinburke.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/DeadMooseAuthorWeb-500x232.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"DeadMooseAuthorWeb\" width=\"500\" height=\"232\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-3621\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>Margaret Atwood gave the keynote at O&#8217;Reilly Tools of Change for Publishing conference. The entire presentation (33 minutes) is available <a href=\"http:\/\/radar.oreilly.com\/2011\/02\/margaret-atwood-toc-2011.html\" target=\"_blank\">O&#8217;Reilly Radar<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Atwood illustrated much of her presentation with hand-drawn images, including the occasional bulleted list. Did you know <a href=\"http:\/\/maudnewton.tumblr.com\/post\/3357665336\/when-margaret-atwood-drew-this-cartoon-inspired\" target=\"_blank\">she was a cartoonist in a previous life<\/a>? Neither did I. <i>\u201cYou\u2019re supposed to do one thing,\u201d she says. \u201cIf you do more than that, people get confused.\u201d<\/i> How true that is.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, Atwood addresses the many dimensions of technologies and the concern that a disorganized response to the massive changes in prospects for publishing could end up eliminating the author. As noted above, they are a crucial aspect of the publishing ecology, but while the death of one author can be nourishing (she does point out that authors don&#8217;t have to be dead), you don&#8217;t want them to go extinct.<\/p>\n<p>By the way, she recommends authors supporting themselves by inheriting money, and notes that rock concerts and t-shirts are not an option. I&#8217;m not 100% sure about the latter part of that, but it&#8217;s true that the marketing and promotion end of that kind of self-management is difficult, and self-publishing is hard enough. Oh, just go watch it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Margaret Atwood gave the keynote at O&#8217;Reilly Tools of Change for Publishing conference. The entire presentation (33 minutes) is available O&#8217;Reilly Radar. Atwood illustrated much of her presentation with hand-drawn images, including the occasional bulleted list. Did you know she was a cartoonist in a previous life? Neither did I. \u201cYou\u2019re supposed to do one [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[22],"tags":[672,744,857,1232],"class_list":["post-3616","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-words","tag-keynote","tag-margaret-atwood","tag-oreilly","tag-tools-of-change"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4OKzG-Wk","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/caitlinburke.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3616","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/caitlinburke.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/caitlinburke.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/caitlinburke.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/caitlinburke.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3616"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/caitlinburke.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3616\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/caitlinburke.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3616"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/caitlinburke.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3616"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/caitlinburke.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}