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" Nothing can injure a man's writing if he's a first-rate writer. If a man is not a first-rate writer, there's not anything can help it much. The problem does not apply if he is not first rate because he has already sold his soul for a swimming pool. INTERVIEWER Does a writer compromise in writing for the movies? FAULKNER Always, because a moving picture is by its nature a collaboration, and any collaboration is compromise because that is what the word means-to give and to take. INTERVIEWER Which actors do you like to work with most? FAULKNER Humphrey Bogart is the one I've worked with best. He and I worked together in To Have and Have Not and The Big Sleep. INTERVIEWER Would you like to make another movie? FAULKNER Yes, I would like to make one of George Orwell's 1984. I have an idea for an ending which would prove the thesis I'm always hammering at: that man is indestructible because of his simple will to freedom. INTERVIEWER How do you get the best results in working for the movies? FAULKNER The moving-picture work of my own which seemed best to me was done by the actors and the writer throwing the script away and inventing the scene in actual rehearsal just before the camera turned on. If I didn't take, or feel I was capable of taking, motion-picture work seriously, out of simple honesty to motion pictures and myself too, I would not have tried. But I know now that I will never be a good motion-picture writer; so that work will never have the urgency for me which my own medium has. INTERVIEWER Would you comment on that legendary Hollywood experience you were involved in? FAULKNER I had just completed a contract at MGM and was about to return home. The director I had worked with said, "If you would like another job here, just let me know and I will speak to the studio about a new contract." I thanked him and came home. About six months later I wired my director friend that I would like another job. Shortly after that I received a letter

Sorry this interview is rather long, but I posted it because Faulkner talks about his books/stories being made into movies and how he feels about it. This is another example that makes me think it would be good for both classes, EMAC6300 and DigitalText.

"Personal branding, writing a resume, creating an advertisement all have a common theme. When trying to persuade someone, generic statements aren't enough." I take issue with "you can make your own luck," but the post has some merit in terms of the signifiers you use to describe yourself.

Interesting. Before I got my current job, I was attempting to find one in social media. The idea of giving myself a social media title hadn't even occurred to me. Either I didn't do enough research or I accidentally avoided a digital faux pas. Either way, I already knew that it's what details and experience you can offer that represent your social media guru-ness... And not what silly title you can invent. Side note, that photo they used isn't from Halloween, it's from an anime or comic convention! I know because I'm a dork and I attend them regularly. (:

No judging here... it's from New York Comic Con. I recognized the convention center and went to the flickr stream to verify. :D

What some may call the ultimate vanity project, a new generation of beauty bloggers are using social-media success for entrepreneurship.

Anticipating our Zittrain reading later in the semester..

Here is another great video series that I recently saw. It's a little older now but super relevant for our class and program.

I love this. It makes me think about Cassini's class and how we talked about this there. Skeuomorphism is an interesting tool, and was a smart way to introduce the iPhone to the general public, it was easy to understand how to use it because of Skeuomorphism.

Hey everyone. I know this isn't exactly the content we're looking for here (?) but I just thought I'd share it in case anyone forgot. Also if you use my link.. I get a Amazon credits. Self-promotion is ok for one post, right? ;P

Ha ha Suzanna. I already signed up for Amazon Student, or else I'd help ya out. I wanted to comment on this to take it back up to the top. Why? I edited and added #emac6300 on all my comments just in case and it moved all my posts back up to the top again. SO, here ya go! :)

As an EMAC graduate student and veteran journalist, this piece was very intriguing.

I keep forgetting to add these articles I've been hoarding! is there such a thing as a cyberhoarder? That would be kind of cool if they made a reality show out of THAT! LOL I don't think I've shared this one yet, so happy reading!

Seriously, the TPP is as bad as the deals we read about in Drahos and Braithwaite.