John Baker’s Blog

An interesting article in The Guardian from Stephen Page, publisher and chief executive of Faber and Faber:
Technology, often feared by the bookish world, is a growing friend. As the mass market has risen so has the reality of a technologically connected society. This doesn’t just mean Facebook. Global communities are gathering around common interests online, [...]

This article in The Sydney Morning Herald claims that half of the top 10 selling works of fiction in Japan are composed on mobile phones.
Half of Japan’s top-10 selling works of fiction in the first six months of the year were composed the same way - on the tiny handset of a mobile phone. They [...]

I know it’s boring but this blog is broken at the moment. I’m working on it and it should look fine from your end, but I don’t have constant access at my end. It might be that, if you post a comment, I won’t see it immediately and it may hang around in cyberspace for [...]

Is really a new wordpress theme. All seems to be working as it should, at least in the browsers that I’ve checked. If you find anything on the site that doesn’t work, please let me know.
I still have some tinkering to do with it, but overall I’m quite pleased with the look.
This is brought about [...]