400 Words News

Blogging about the 400 Words project

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Posted to 400 Words News on 27 January 2007, with no comments so far.

In 2005, when a freight truck pulled up to the front door of my apartment in Ithaca and disorged twenty-two boxes of the first issue of 400 Words — enough to completely line the living-room wall — it seemed impossible that I’d ever be rid of them all. (Not that I wanted to be. I’d [...]

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Posted to 400 Words News on 10 December 2006, with 6 comments so far.

This just in: 400 Words is featured in the “Periscope” section of this week’s Newsweek, on newsstands tomorrow, or online here. Terribly exciting. Big ups to Nick Summers for writing the piece, and welcome to all the Newsweek readers who are, I hope, finding their way here for the first time. Make yourselves at home, [...]

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Posted to 400 Words News on 13 November 2006, with no comments so far.

Wow — we’ve been getting a lot of traffic this last week from Stumbleupon.com. Welcome everybody, and if you like what you see, please thumbs-up the page so that others continue to stumble here. Also, New York City area readers, please take note: the launch party for the Compulsions issue has been scheduled! Please come [...]

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Posted to 400 Words News on 15 October 2006, with 1 comment so far.

It’s October 15 and there’s a romantic chill in the air in New York City. I’m experimenting with selling text link ads on this page, a bit curious as to whether there’s enough traffic to net any money for the project or not. The company I’m using has a very fascinating “Text Link Ad Calculator;” [...]