{"id":876,"date":"2007-04-24T01:00:22","date_gmt":"2007-04-24T05:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/2007\/04\/24\/a-pick-me-up\/"},"modified":"2009-02-28T00:08:19","modified_gmt":"2009-02-28T04:08:19","slug":"a-pick-me-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/2007\/04\/24\/a-pick-me-up\/","title":{"rendered":"A pick me up"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’m back in Boston for week three of “Don’t-see-my-family-April”, and today work got me incredibly down.<\/p>\n

However, as it is (or, as midnight just clicked over, was) International Pixel-Stained Peasant Day<\/strong>, I have lots of free fun stuff to read and cheer me tonight.<\/p>\n

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If you don’t know what I’m talking about you need to first see this<\/a>, then read a couple of responses (like this<\/a>, this<\/a>, or this<\/a>), and then see how it lead to this<\/a>.<\/p>\n

For those of you not clicking through the links, what it amounts to is a whole bunch of tech-hip authors posting (or linking to) their writing on the web for free.<\/p>\n

You can hear three outspoken author types chat about this in an MP3 capture of a panel discussion here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

There’s a list of some of them, but not all of them, here<\/a>. Or you can peruse the thing that arose here<\/a> (what’s the term for a mutli-user flashmob blog?) for lots more links.<\/p>\n

Here are some that I would recommend, in no particular order:<\/p>\n