I'll eventually write a detailed post about the blogger meet. In the mean time, here are a few links that recently caught my attention:
Blogging and journalism
LA Times media critic thinks that bloggers don't deserve first amendment protection. Jack Shafer (an unlikely person) wrote a spirited rejoinder. Soon after -as if on demand- LA Times laid an egg. Shafer didnt miss a beat.
I have now started feeling rather sorry for Eric Slater. (For those of you who dont follow the US media scene as obsessively, I should note here that LAT is actually a damn good newspaper)
Extremely loud and incredibly close
I heard interesting things about Extremely loud and Incredibly close in the blogger meet last saturday (more about that later today). This NYT page has a good review and links to author profile, extract etc.
Photography
There are three different Dayanita Singh exhibitions happening in the North east over the next few months. The one in Sepia will be over on April 16th. If you are in the neighbourhood, you ought to try to squeeze in a visit.
Talking of photography - check out the personal projects of Karina Laval and Kevin Cooley.(via Joerg CoLberg )
Saul Bellow
In case you didnt know, Saul Bellow is dead. I loved this throwaway line in his obituary:
I am currently feeling proud of my current state of residence.