Bookstarter

[l33tminion]

Kickstarter is pretty cool. It's a site for the distributed financing of small projects. Pledges are collected if and only if the project is fully funded, so there's less risk of committing money to a project that will never have enough to get off the ground. The project creators can also specify different rewards for different levels of support.

Two of my favorite podcasters are using the site to get off the ground with self-publishing, so I encourage you to check out (and fund) their projects:

Douglas Lain of the Diet Soap Podcast is working on a book titled Pick Your Battle - Foraging as Revolutionary Self-Help, a self-help guide for the urban forager.

kmo of the C-Realm Podcast is working on a book titled Conversations on Collapse, a collection of interviews from the podcast.

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[peristaltor.livejournal.com]

I'm pretty jazzed about kmo's book.

That said, I tried to listen to Diet Soap, but just about exploded from Lain's staunch political views. kmo will get into a rant now and again, but he pretty much lets his guests yak unmolested. Doug? Frickin' everything relates to his views on Marxism and class struggle.

Ah, well.

/rant

[l33tminion]

Frickin' everything relates to his views on Marxism and class struggle

We're talking about a podcast where the opening and the closing music is The Internationale.

Doug Lain is indeed way more political than KMO, but I think he does some really interesting and artistic things with his podcast. Then again, I really do like political talk.