Meryl Streep, Barnard Commencement Speaker 2010, Columbia University
/via youtube.com
Almost always the most talented are also the funniest, most generous and humble, the most insightful.
History of Social Games
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via radoff.com
Be sure to click the link to read a brief narrative history of social games. Games have always being an integral part of sharing and thinking about complex situations, as well as providing entertainment.
Gary Vaynerchuk in conversation with Kathy Sierra at Tim O’Reilly’s Gov 2.0
/Touching on sharks, hippos and the ‘human’ brand.
The Curators - A MoOMumentary in 3 Parts
/A tribute to anyone who has ever collected anything. Click on the link for parts 2 and 3.
via coudal.com
Ten rules for writing fiction continued
/1 When still a child, make sure you read a lot of books. Spend more time doing this than anything else.
2 When an adult, try to read your own work as a stranger would read it, or even better, as an enemy would.
3 Don’t romanticise your “vocation”. You can either write good sentences or you can’t. There is no “writer’s lifestyle”. All that matters is what you leave on the page.
4 Avoid your weaknesses. But do this without telling yourself that the things you can’t do aren’t worth doing. Don’t mask self-doubt with contempt.
5 Leave a decent space of time between writing something and editing it.
6 Avoid cliques, gangs, groups. The presence of a crowd won’t make your writing any better than it is.
7 Work on a computer that is disconnected from the internet.
8 Protect the time and space in which you write. Keep everybody away from it, even the people who are most important to you.
9 Don’t confuse honours with achievement.
10 Tell the truth through whichever veil comes to hand – but tell it. Resign yourself to the lifelong sadness that comes from never being satisfied.
via guardian.co.uk
More advice via the link.