Here’s what happened to me after a few weeks of doing intensive Twitter research and madly posting tweets: I have a deep craving for history. It’s kind of like gorging on chips, pizza, ice cream and beer and then suddenly feeling the urge for something more sustaining. Read more...

So the other day my colleagues at the Literary Ventures Fund and I were on a three-way, three-city conference call when one of them mentioned that he took a train ride from NYC to Princeton the day before to attend a meeting. He said that he spent much of the time on his iPhone reading Twitter thoughts with links from a savvy and opinionated independent publisher we all knew on a variety of topics. Another colleague sighed and said “It used to be that people used train rides to read books.” Read more...