There is an ancient story from the Ganges River Basin about a giant net, like those fishermen wove. Along the lines of this net dwell all beings, objects feelings and perceptions. If one knot is touched, all other knots in the web are affected, if only by a tiny vibration. Indra's New, it is said, was bejeweled, and in each facet of all the jewels were reflected all the other jewels in the net.
We seem to have recreated this with the Internet. In the latest edition of my book, The Elements of News Writing, I said that people who can figure out how to make order out of the information overload will be in great demand. Now, in 2013, an interconnected network of social media sites are creating one way to make sense out of the cacophony of information out there in the mass media.
Perhaps establishing a digital platform of social media sites, personal blogs, separate Web sites, and connections to books, newspapers, magazines, recorded music, motion pictures, radio, television, and whatever comes tomorrow is what is coming.
I've been trying to work on new chapters for the new expanded Happy, and I don't like it at all. I wanted the original to be a few extraordinary anecdotes, not a whole memoir. I don't think I should continue on that path.
Perhaps this unconventional book can be presented in an unconventional way in the new marketplace.
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