"[I went] begging my way into the homes, offices, favorite cafes, and bars of dozens of people who have been doing this for a while ... One of the many inspiring things about this business is that if you’re someone with energy and what sounds at least like a half-decent idea, almost everyone will hear you out."
That's Larry Smith describing how he dreamed up Smith Magazine a couple years ago. He co-edited the new Smith book, to the six-word memoir collection, Not Quite What I Was Planning, with his Senior Editor, Rachel Fershleiser They've been our special guests this week, both in print and in web video. Today, Larry Smith explains how an up-and-coming microblogging company Twitter changed his magazine. Welcome to my deceptively simple feature, Five Easy Questions (this week, each of our guests get two-and-a-half easy questions). In the spirit of Jack Nicholson's mad piano player, I run a weekly set of quality conversations with writing pioneers—delivering some practical, unexpected advice about web writing. Jason Boog: Larry Smith: Twitter was a great partnership for us, and exemplifies a lot of the way we think. Soon after SMITH launched (Jan. 6., 2006) I became obsessed with telling stories from SMITH on mobile phones. Continue reading...