{"id":1131,"date":"2007-12-05T17:50:54","date_gmt":"2007-12-05T17:50:54","guid":{"rendered":"\/ifbookblog\/?p=1131"},"modified":"2007-12-05T17:50:54","modified_gmt":"2007-12-05T17:50:54","slug":"welcome_sebastian_mary_officia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/2007\/12\/05\/welcome_sebastian_mary_officia\/","title":{"rendered":"welcome, sebastian mary! (it&#8217;s official)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We are very happy to welcome Sebastian Mary Harrington onto the &#8220;official&#8221; Institute masthead. This is long overdue, and merely formalizes what is already without question one of our most important and well established partnerships. But formalized it is. And we&#8217;re damn pleased.<br \/>\nIt all started two Octobers ago with a casual <a href=\"\/blog\/archives\/2006\/10\/the_ipod_fallacy.html#c26273\">comment<\/a> on a <a href=\"\/blog\/archives\/2006\/10\/the_ipod_fallacy.html\">post<\/a> about iPods and reading. An <a href=\"\/blog\/archives\/2006\/10\/a_comment_yields_fan_mail.html\n\">email exchange<\/a> ensued and before we knew it sMary was blogging away, quickly carving out her place as what you might call our &#8220;new online literary forms correspondent.&#8221; For over a year now she&#8217;s been writing some of the best coverage to be found anywhere on <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Alternate_reality_game\">alternative reality games<\/a> (ARGs), as well as brilliant speculative essays on the future shape of authorship, copyright and the economics of publishing. (She&#8217;s also become a dear friend.) I wonder if it&#8217;s happened before: a random blog comment leading to a paid writing gig? It&#8217;s a good story in itself, and sort of captures why blogging is such an important part of our work.<br \/>\nHere&#8217;s little sampler of her if:book portfolio (running newest to oldest):<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>&#8220;books and the man i sing&#8221;: parts <a href=\"\/blog\/archives\/2007\/09\/post_7.html\">one<\/a>, <a href=\"\/blog\/archives\/2007\/09\/books_and_the_man_part_ii_sort.html\">two<\/a> and <a href=\"\/blog\/archives\/2007\/09\/books_and_the_man_part_iii_the.html\">three<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"\/blog\/archives\/2007\/05\/of_babies_and_bathwater.html\">&#8220;of babies and bathwater&#8221;<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"\/blog\/archives\/2007\/04\/its_multimedia_jim_but_not_as.html\">&#8220;it&#8217;s multimedia, jim, but not as we know it&#8221;<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"\/blog\/archives\/2007\/03\/pay_attention_to_the_dance.html\">&#8220;pay  attention to the dance&#8221;<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"\/blog\/archives\/2007\/01\/give_away_the_content_and_sell.html\">&#8220;give away the content and sell the thing&#8221;<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"\/blog\/archives\/2007\/01\/the_culture_industry_and_botto.html\">net native stories are already here: so are the vultures&#8221;<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"\/blog\/archives\/2006\/12\/do_bloggers_dream_of_electrify.html\">&#8220;do bloggers dream of electrifying text?&#8221;<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Once again, we&#8217;re delighted sMary will be officially working with us for part of every month, continuing to deliver her sharp insights and humor here on if:book, and taking part in some of our emerging activities on the London scene.<br \/>\nThis is also probably a good time to say a bit more about sMary&#8217;s other endeavors. In addition to her work with the Institute, she&#8217;s co-founder of the UK web startup <a href= http:\/\/www.schoolofeverything.com>School of Everything<\/a> (chosen by <a href-http:\/\/www.seedcamp.com>Seedcamp<\/a> as one of Europe&#8217;s hottest startups of 2007) and co-founder and creative director of the cult London art event <a href= http:\/\/www.arthousepartynet>ARTHOUSEPARTY<\/a>. You can find out a bit more on our <a href=\"\/people.html\">staff page<\/a>.<br \/>\nAnother warm welcome to sMary. You&#8217;ll no doubt be hearing more from her soon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We are very happy to welcome Sebastian Mary Harrington onto the &#8220;official&#8221; Institute masthead. This is long overdue, and merely formalizes what is already without question one of our most important and well established partnerships. But formalized it is. And we&#8217;re damn pleased. 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