I've got a post up on my blog about Clarion West Write-a-thon: week 1, where I talk about goals and altruism and story. Please to go read and follow linkages and sponsor me for the Write-a-thon!

As some of you know, I'm the chair for Potlatch 21, held in Seattle this year. We are coming down to the wire and need everyone to spread the word, so write about it in your blogs and LJ's if you are going. Write about it if you aren't going, but want to. Hell, just write about it ( Read more... )

New blog post: Why Occupy Wall Street matters.

I am moving blogging operations from LiveJournal to my eponymous blog 'Dispatches from the Edge' at jackwilliambell.com.

I just posted a rant about open computing, Apple, and Steve Jobs: Endings and Beginnings. Feel free to comment here if you prefer.

While attending Foolscap I've been spending some time in the bar working on my novel, including the following scene:

Through the large window beside our table we could watch the Earth slowly wheel by three times a minute. It’s the view the ‘Top of the World’ restaurant is known for, but it makes me nauseous if I watch it too long. Alice seemed to ( Read more... )

The following is a scene I wrote today as part of a complete rewrite of chapter two:

I left Bailey’s office when he started yelling at Raj. I don’t think he even noticed me going out the door. From Bailey’s office it is two floors up to the office cube I share with Larry Wells. Larry wasn’t there, no surprise, so I called him on the phone and told ( Read more... )

(Yeah, yeah... Scansion needs some work. Nor proper verse either. So sue me ( Read more... )

On Craigslist today there was a help-wanted ad titled 'Apple Site News Writer':

Looking for self-motivated writers for a large Apple News site ( Read more... )

I imagine that very nearly every man and woman who reaches an age comparable to mine finds themselves looking back at their life and finding the whole of it wanting. Finding themselves a failure when compared to the ambitions of their younger selves. I believe this to be true, no matter how great (or small) the success we each have actually ( Read more... )

• Tue, 09:46: The #EFF is looking for some help. http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2011/03/eff-seeks-cooperating-foia-reviewers
• Tue, 10:27: Deflating the 'Hubble Bubble'. Dark energy for the win! http://www.centauri-dreams.org/?p=17150
• Tue, 10:27: RT @ acangiano: Circular logic is the best type of logic, because it's circular.
• Tue, 10:42: William ( Read more... )