All entries tagged: John Hodgman
Jesse Thorn on gathering your online audience in the real world
Here’s the third and final part of my interview with Jesse Thorn, host of public radio’s The Sound of Young America. (Here’s my intro post, Part 1, and Part 2.)
In this excerpt we talk about MaxFunCon, his upcoming weekend convention of fans of his radio show and a mix of former guests and other interesting [...]
Bruce Campbell doesn’t do glossy magazine pages
One other thing. Note that none of that great Hodgman material in the last post will appear in the next issue of Wired. No Bruce Campbell at all. That’s because the magazine version is an edited-down 683 words — a decent size for a magazine Q&A.
The web version is 8,476 words — the full interview. [...]
He’s a PC, but he likes small niches
Interesting interview with John Hodgman in Wired. Hodgman — probably best known today as the PC in the “I’m a Mac” commercials — is a former literary agent, and he talks about his travails trying to get a book by B-movie actor Bruce Campbell published.
A big part of deciding what books to publish is identifying [...]
