When I was young, you specified the thing you were listening to, watching, or reading: I'm reading the new Stephen King book; I'm listening to the new God Lives Underwater album; I'm watching Melrose Place . . . but now I people often mention the platform they are using instead of the specific content: I'm watching Netflix/YouTube/TikTok, I'm listening to Spotify, I'm going to sit down and read my Kindle-- I'm sure Marshall McLuhan would have a field day with this trend-- the delivery method and the algorithm are more important than the content; we don't own content any more-- we just breeze though it, separate from everyone else and because of media fragmentation, no one is watching/reading/listening to the same thing . . . and I find this is a little sad and scary.
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if you want people to read more, you should promote certain content. like, for instance and for no particular reason, 'the adventures of jojo the small town hound, vol 1, leesburg, virginia and the curious case of dog money'.
I’m reading Sentence of Dave and Gheorghe: the Blog.
When will we see Vol. 2 of Jojo?
as soon as rob finishes writing the title . . . writing a long title takes a long time!
i've got the first part of the title down.
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