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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.

New Keurig coffee makers will have DRM and will not work with any other coffee pods. I use a pod that minimizes the plastic and the little plastic it does use is corn based and biodegradable. I inherited my keurig from my partner's office (they were going to throw it away for a very silly reason!) and it looks like i won't ever purchase one for myself.

A new paper out of MIT's Center for Civic Media uses Media Cloud and other tools to map how the story of Trayvon Marton's death was told -- and evolved.

This is really interesting. I also like that the tool is available for anyone to use. I'm going to add it to the tools list in #digitaltext

When old world problems follow the shiny new thing in digital media.

SkyDrive, Microsoft's cloud storage service, has a new app for iPhone that will automatically upload photos stored in your camera roll to your account.Users of competing services like Dropbox and Google Drive should already be familiar with this concept.

Norma, I have SkyDrive but am still new to using it. I do love how Mac and my iPhone are in sync with each other. I love the iCloud and other services like it, (DropBox) it comes in handy when sharing for work, or for home.

A Q&A with the Pam Grossman, Getty's director of visual trends, on the visual images of women in the media

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

More on journalism, codes and algorithms

Mosaic, a new science site that's affixing a Creative Commons license to its long-form writings

"What we choose to consume, how we vote, and what we believe in are woven into the integral structure of media as a whole," Somerhalder said. "Corporate bodies, governmental agencies and even individuals are encouraged to listen to the impassioned voices echoing online all around us."

"What we choose to consume, how we vote, and what we believe in are woven into the integral structure of media as a whole," Somerhalder said. "Corporate bodies, governmental agencies and even individuals are encouraged to listen to the impassioned voices echoing online all around us."

An interesting way to give....digital realm

An interesting way to give....in the digital realm.

#6300link RT @MockingbirdDee: @purplekimchi Another website you could order books off of: http://t.co/aaGj9WitVG #emac6300 - Kim Knight (@purplekimchi) January 16, 2014

#6300link RT @MockingbirdDee: @purplekimchi Another website you could order books off of: http://t.co/aaGj9WitVG #emac6300 - Kim Knight (@purplekimchi) January 16, 2014

A friend of mine recently started a conversation with these words: "Don't take this the wrong way..." I wish I could tell you what she said next. But I wasn't listening-my brain had stalled. I was bracing for the sentence that would follow that phrase, which experience has taught me probably wouldn't be good.