Alan Moore interview; Long Tail malarkey and the In Rainbows watershed; brainstorming; Shakespeare and functional shift…

• 1 – Q&A: ‘Watchmen’ creator Alan Moore
  “The mystics all seem to want to go straight to the Godhead; the magicians tend to be more curious. They want to explore all of the other aspects of the universe. For me, there is very little difference between magic and art.”
  (tags: magic television films books comics interview Alan-Moore)
• 2 – In Rainbows
  “Most of the focus has been on its name your own price formula, but most important, it was released without a major label and as a result of being available for free, Radiohead achieved its number one goal, getting the music in as many hands as possible.”
  (tags: marketing Radiohead model business music)
• 3 – Wagging the Long Tail of Love
  “I’ve been wrestling with this for a while and I think the only advantage to the creator that I can see in the long tail is that aggregators can invent or produce a long tail domain that was not present before.”
  (tags: strategy niche economics creativity business long-tail)
• 4 – 9 Ideas For A More Creative And Effective Brainstorming Process
  “… I really do write lots of random ideas down for later use. You never know when something will come in handy. But how do you get started creating thumbnails? Picking up a pencil is a good start.”
  (tags: tips notetaking brainstorming productivity inspiration creativity)
• 5 – How to Be Interesting
  Not that I need the help, you understand. Ahem.
  (tags: writing sociology psychology marketing interesting copywriting content communication)
• 6 – What Mainstream Publishers Don’t Want You to Know About Door-to-Door Magazine Sales – News – Houston Press – Houston Press
  This is a mad mad story… with storyable potential, I’d wager. Well worth the read, like a corporate *On The Road*.
  (tags: agents corruption sales marketing magazine)
• 7 – What If You Have Many Different Interests and Cannot Commit to Any of Them?
  “It’s perfectly okay to reject the drone path, you know. Lots of people do, and they’re much happier for it. But they aren’t the same people that will tell you, “Pick one thing and stick to it, or you’ll never amount to anything.””
  (tags: polymath lifehacks interests diversity career)
• 8 – I Am Shakespeare And So Can You
  “Functional shift happens when a word is mis-classified and needs to be re-classified later in the sentence, when subsequent information disambiguates the structure.”
  (tags: Shakespeare shift functional writing metaphor language)