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[ [P] ](https://web.archive.org/web/20091202085834/http://www.kuro5hin.org/print/2009/11/5/164522/363)**[Further Adventures in Self-Publishing](https://web.archive.org/web/20091202085834/http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2009/11/5/164522/363)**

By johnny in Media

Fri Nov 06, 2009 at 08:00:20 PM EST

Tags: publishing, internet, media ( all tags)

In days of old when knights were bold and toilets weren't invented, I wrote a k5 article about my adventures in self-publishing. In it I wrote, "I recommend self-publishing for anybody whose temperament and objectives resemble mine. All others should beware."

That's still pretty my much point of view.

Below the fold, I've updated & revised that original story & added some additional reflections based on the eight years of self-publishing experience I've amassed since then (including six years of making my books available for free download under Creative Commons license).

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[ [P] ](https://web.archive.org/web/20091202085834/http://www.kuro5hin.org/print/2009/6/19/84816/8592)**[Iran and the Geopolitics of Bay-Area Hipsters](https://web.archive.org/web/20091202085834/http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2009/6/19/84816/8592)**

By anaesthetica in Politics

Sat Jun 20, 2009 at 09:30:44 PM EST

Tags: iran, elections, protests, twitter, facebook, google, communications, internet ( all tags)

Much hype has already been made of the foray of Twitter into geopolitics. Jared Cohen, the Jew who wandered the Middle East solo, wrote a book about it, and was hired to the State Department by the Bush administration, figured out that Twitter's maintenance period directly conflicted Iranian waking hours. So he called Twitter and asked them to shift their schedule for the purposes of international politics. They did.

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Friday, September 11th

Just testing (33 comments)