Subject: Re: Finished reading HFC
From: Barrett Brown <barriticus@gmail.com>
Date: 7/21/10, 12:38
To: Clark Robinson <robinsonchicago@gmail.com>

Ol' whatshisname at Vanderbilt certainly knows something is up based on the questions I asked him via phone and e-mail follow-up, but he was expecting a Vanity Fair piece on the subject, doesn't know about the book unless he's kept tabs on me since. I've got recordings of the phone interview as well as copies of the documents so it wouldn't be smart of him to react and I don't expect him to.

On Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 7:49 PM, Clark Robinson <robinsonchicago@gmail.com> wrote:
I finished reading it today; the RS McCain chapter is pretty damning; do you think the subject and the folks in Nashville know this is coming?

I was fascinated by how you broadened the context as the book proceeded, so that controversies and failures in the past decade's media were, by the last chapter, seen in the framework of the history of advancements in human communications.

Not to be fulsome, but I think you got a winner (and Project PM is not ready for the publicity and surge of interest that is going to come.)

You should consider a website, like Barry Eisler's, devoted to promotion of your writing and yourself. It looks like some money was spent on Barry's, and after browsing your publisher's website, I was left with the impression that they don't invest much in their web presence.

Thanks for giving me the opportunity to read this and let me know if there is anything I can do to help you with the launch activities.
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Speaking of websites, I will probably be sending you a separate message today or tomorrow about discontinuing (and removing) the Project PM Workshop site and replacing it with a newsletter. I have been thinking about this will circulate a short list of ideas to yourself and a few others I would like to get involved in this.









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Barrett Brown
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