Dan Conover
Evil Genius Chronicles Podcast for Decmber 9 2021 - The HOA For Your Writing Career
In this episode, I play a song by Jill Sobule; I am in the new house and setting up my new office; my dog is living in exile; having a cooperative rather than a company can be quite nice; I am liking HomePass by Plume; wifi SSID are case-sensitive which I didn't know; I have never seen an ad...
read articleSeparated at Birth?
I've blogged recently about comic book artist, publisher and teacher Stephen R. Bissette. This post is an exorcism of sorts because I just want it out of my system. As long as I've known Dan Conover, I've thought he and Bissette looked a lot alike. Dan is screwing this comparison up recently by...
read articleDan Conover Is On Fire
I got to spend a little time with Dan Conover last Saturday, kicking around ideas that have floated between us personally, between our blogs and in the aether. Ever since he took the buyout for his job from the Charleston Post and Courier, he has really been on fire at the Xark blog. Just this...
read articleContinuing Coverage of the Death of Journalism
I find the current state of the news industry a fascinating thing to watch. In that way, it's much like a 12 car pile-up or a dumpster fire. Here are a few items on the subject that I have found highly interesting. Dan Conover wrote a piece called The Newspaper Suicide Pact a few weeks ago, and it...
read articleDan Conover Takes On The Newspapers
As someone who as seen the "journalists vs bloggers" debate iterated a few dozen times more than I really care to, I'm interested when new factors are put in either side of that equation. One thing I have noticed from the journalist side of this is that they tend to mention virtues of...
read articleCharleston Zombie Action
I talked to my friend Dan Conover on the phone today, tomorrow is Halloween and this week I've been in my workshop making artificial dismembered body parts. All those combine into a souffle of rotting flesh when you think back to Dan's short film from earlier this year, Brunch of the Living Dead...
read articleThis Saturday after Converge South, the Day That is Not BlogHer
If you are going to Greensboro this weekend for Converge South, don't forget that we are doing a spontaneous make up day to fill in the hole left by BlogHer when they cancelled their Saturday session. Kelby Carr has organized a morning of panels and I have disorganized an afternoon of hands-on...
read articleDan Conover on the Media Interregnum
My friend Dan Conover took a buyout at his job at the Charleston Post and Courier last month. His final assignment was to write a piece on the present day values of mass media journalism. Fittingly for the situation, they opted not to print it and gave it back to him to do what he wanted to. He...
read articleDo What You Imagine
Dan Conover writes about shooting his short film over the last few weeks. Dan talks about the power of cheap technology when it intersects the desire to be creative. That's the spirit that drives our Create South conference this weekend. Not coincidentally, Dan and his wife Janet will be presenting...
read articleNew Media and Journalism, Round 127
Here's an interesting post from Dan Conover in which he riffs on some Tweets of mine about new media and the press. My original impetus for writing those tweets was my cynicism and disbelief of any "received wisdom" about our election and primary. When any talking head on TV makes a...
read articleEGC Clambake for April 24, 2007 - "The Business Plan is Love"
Here is the Bittorrent link and direct MP3 download for the EGC clambake for April 24, 2007. I play a song from Dead Heart Bloom and give a shoutout to the Large Hearted Boy blog; I talk about Dan Conover's post about newspapers entitled "What if the Business Plan was Love?"; I discuss...
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