Booksquare and Medialoper have entered into the podcasting fray with a print-on-demand discussion with author Timothy Sykes.

Richard Grayson has a report from last night’s “Literary Magazines Go Electronic: Where’s the Print Edition in the Library?” panel.

It is a day of deadlines and madness. But I will try to offer some posts later.

In other news, my 62 minute self-help presentation, “Cooking an Omelette for Breakfast, Cooking an Omelette for Life” is now ready for the professional lecturing circuit. Interested parties may inquire directly, as the Steven Barclay Agency has recently affixed a large poster in their office with the words “DO NOT HIRE UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES” just underneath a grainy Kodachrome photograph of me.

If you’re feeling despondent about the lack of responses, check out Susannah Breslin’s freelancing stats.

It is especially heartening to know that some ostensible writers, scribbling in blog-like form for their columns, confuse their shaky Fleet Street sinecures and their indolent journalistic dispositions with “educated comment” and proceed to make absurd generalizations as egregious as these apparent “axe-grinding amateurs.” (Sorry, Mr. Sanderson, but not even a Red Dwarf reference cannot inure your ass after writing such nonsense.)