How blogs die: I declare this blog (Blogistan Editorial) a failure! How liberating to say so. Plus, it died, so we can dissect it without causing any further pain to the organism. My theory, it's a dry eddy off the mighty Mississipppi that is Radio Free Blogistan. We have a whole community out there... (Best Practices)

11th annual Waterside Conference: As some of my readers know, my literary agency, Waterside, hosts a publishing and technology conference every spring. For years we did it in San Diego near the Waterside mothership but last year we did it in Berkeley and had such a good time we're having it there again. This year's... (Business)