A nation of phone junkies…

Here’s an interesting article from December, probably blogged elsewhere, but which caught my attention. It’s titled Korea becoming a nation of phone junkies: South Korean teenagers are so attached to their mobile phones that some researchers are classifying them as ‘addicts’, according to recent reports. Almost a third are obsessed with their phones to the point that they sometimes imagine hearing them ringing when they are not. There’s more, including a student group campaigning for monthly voluntary phone-free days, in order to help people get people back in touch with other forms of social interaction. Kind of like how Adbusters …

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The Lester Dent Pulp Paper Master Fiction Plot

During Clarion West, the inimitable Shawn Scarber shared with us, his classmates, the wonderful reference source that should be available to all writers of genre fiction, especially those working in the short form — though the tips found within the guide may well work for longer works. Yes, my friends, it’s the The Lester Dent Pulp Paper Master Fiction Plot. Brilliant.

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Rest In Peace, Shawn

I have been out of touch so long with the blogosphere that the sad passing of Shawn, who used to write the Korea Life Blog way back when, until he moved to China and wrote the China Life Blog, did not reach my attention. I didn’t know Shawn beyond a very brief few moments in Yongsan station, where I met him and his then-girlfriend. He sold me his old desktop computer. I don’t know how much later it was that he moved to China. I never really read his blog, but I did get some of the inspiration for making …

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