The United States has historically been a laboratory of the future for the rest of the world: I remember how I was awed when I arrived in New York in the 1960s and saw what the future looked like, with gigantic highways, sprawling suburbs and televisions everywhere. Now the US is doing it again, if…
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To Publish AND Perish – Will the Tsunami of e-books Destroy our Culture?
This article was published on Impakter (under my real name, Claude Forthomme): To Publish and Perish Claude Forthomme on 20 August, 2014 at 09:00 Amazon and its 3.4 Million E-Books: the End of Culture? For a long while now, people have debated how many e-books Amazon carried it in its Kindle Store, because Amazon has…
Is Google Plus on its Way Out?
I just published one of my articles on a new cool magazine, Impakter. Here’s the opening: The geeks are convinced of it, Google is about to snuff out Google Plus. The younger generations, the Millenials in particular, consider Google+ a social media disaster. Something totally useless, even laughable. A month ago, Google Plus’ founding father,…
A Writer’s Quandary: To Blog in a Niche or Not to Blog?
Like every writer who starts out, I was told I should have an Internet presence, an easily recognizable brand. That’s why I started this blog back in 2009 as a way to brand myself. I also got on Facebook and Twitter and Pinterest and scores of other sites. On day one, I had one reader…
