Catch all, Part 1

Catch all, tonight.

Well, okay, a buch of excuses, and then catch-all.

I actually do this for fun. No, honestly, I've been enjoying this immensely. I'm thinking out loud, and my thought processes are over-focused, repetitive, and digressive (if that's a word). I'm happy to do this until the cows come home (which is one of those phrases that makes no sense, considering that I don't own cows. Or maybe it does, in that it implies that I don't shut up). One of the high points of Confluence, for me, was talking to Sally Kobee about -- you guessed it! -- bookselling. I sort of wish I could drag Alice Bentley into this as well, because she certainly saw things about the industry that I did -- but also has her own take, and she does LJ. Or Tom Whitmore. Then again, they may not like to go on at length.

I've been using these posts as a spur to get real writing done; wordage first, LJ post later. I answer quick comments as I can during the day. But having done my writing for the evening, I'm about to launch into answers for a bunch of disparate questions.

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Catch all, Part 2

A couple more questions fielded, from comment threads. I should probably try to keep the answers in the threads, but I find it easier this way; I think the moveable type model is probably a better one for an ongoing discussion, because it lacks the threading, and it's easier to see what's new. But it also requires scads of bandwidth, because you can easily end up reloading a megabyte or more everytime you look at a post. That was tonight's digression.

Onward.

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