{"id":527,"date":"2010-03-11T00:54:03","date_gmt":"2010-03-11T04:54:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/2010\/03\/11\/mediabistro-radio-interview\/"},"modified":"2010-03-11T01:01:41","modified_gmt":"2010-03-11T05:01:41","slug":"mediabistro-radio-interview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/2010\/03\/11\/mediabistro-radio-interview\/","title":{"rendered":"You’re Going to Hear Me on Your (Internet) Radio"},"content":{"rendered":"

I returned to my old mediabistro.com stomping grounds yesterday, through a telephone call to Jason Boog, my successor at GalleyCat<\/i>, to talk about a new book project: the publication of a print version of my “translation” of the Tao Te Ching<\/i>, a work I’d been distributing for free online for the last six years. Getting Right with Tao<\/i><\/a> includes a mild revision to that text, plus a new foreword and afterword and a special gift for the folks who buy it—because if you’re going to pay $9.95 for a book you could just download for free, you deserve something special, right?<\/p>\n

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Anyway, during my conversation with Jason (and AgencySpy<\/I> editor Matt van Hoven), I talked about how that online version became so popular<\/a>, to the point where it’s one of the first ten results you get when you search for “Tao Te Ching” in Google. We also chatted about how I ended up working with Channel V Books<\/a> to do a print book after so many years of publishing this as an online exclusive, and about the impulse to do a rendition of the Tao Te Ching<\/i> when I don’t, in fact, know a word of Chinese…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I returned to my old mediabistro.com stomping grounds yesterday, through a telephone call to Jason Boog, my successor at GalleyCat, to talk about a new book project: the publication of a print version of my “translation” of the Tao Te Ching, a work I’d been distributing for free online for the last six years. Getting […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/527"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=527"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/527\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}