Rocket Bomber - article - site news - commentary - Hi Mom.

I mentioned in an email to my Mom that I was busy with all kinds of stuff, work, the web site, etc. and she replied:

“I didn’t realize that you are working on a web site. What site is it?”

and then I look at the last couple of posts, and some of the current topics that we’ve been debating and discussing on the web recently, and thought, “oh s#!t.”

Mom, I am a mature adult, as are most (I think all?) of my readers. I know I’m going to catch hell for one or two of the things I’ve posted, but I’m hoping you’ll look at some of my better work first, before you judge me too harshly.

I’d like to point you to the following articles:

Rethinking the Box: A series I started four months ago as an analysis of retailing trends and how a new-model bookstore might look (and work) in the future. — here’s links to Part One, Part Two, and Part Two & a half — this is an ongoing column and I hope to have new write-ups soon, but since it is a ‘thought’ piece it takes a while to outline and draft each one.

I also dabble a bit in what might be (if you’re feeling charitable) called journalism: Borders: the crystal ball report, Borders Redux, 2006 and 2007 Industry Year-in-review Posts,

And I’m using some of the fancy math I learned at Tech to run my own bestseller charts. I’m trying to post weekly, just like the New York Times. It is work, but I derive a great deal of satisfation from it.

http://www.rocketbomber.com/category/rankings/

I also like to point people to odd and interesting books, either that I see in the store or that I discover online.

http://www.rocketbomber.com/category/found/

These two regular features account for most of my web traffic, though the most popular posts are the analytical articles, like the ones I linked to above. (they just take too long to write, so I can only manage one a month — when I’m lucky)

Yes. I’m writing about comics. You know the stacks and stacks of stuff all over the floor of my apartment when you come visit? Those comics.

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My website is not a secret, and I think I’ve mentioned it in passing at least a couple of times. I’ve been writing on comics now for 2 1/2 years; I’ve owned the rocketbomber.com domain name for a full year, and ‘officially’ launched at the end of June ’08.

And I do it for free (it costs a little, actually, averages out to $20 a month or so) but as hobbies go, it’s fun, and I’ve met a lot of great people because of the site.

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I’d like to invite my other readers to say ‘hi’ in the comments. (please note, given the primary intended audience — Mom — I’ll be moderating these comments exceedingly, excessively closely. She’s my mom, be polite.)