@Porter_Anderson, BA, MA, MFA, is a 32-year journalist, critic, and speaker whose work today is based in publishing. A Fellow with the National Critics Institute, his Writing on the Ether is read Thursdays at JaneFriedman.com. His Ether for Authors runs Mondays at PublishingPerspectives.com. His third Ether franchise, London on the Ether for The Bookseller.com was inaugurated during the London Book Fair, with which his Porter Anderson Media was a Media Partner. Anderson is also a @DigiBookWorld Expert Blogger and has spoken at publishing conferences including The FutureBook, London; Writer's Digest West, Los Angeles; Digital Book World's (DBW) Publishing Innovation Awards, New York; O'Reilly Media Tools of Change (TOC) Author (R)evolution Day, New York; and Writer's Digest East, New York. He is formerly with CNN-USA, CNN International, and CNN.com; The Village Voice; The Dallas Times Herald; the United Nations (a diplomatic posting, P5, to Rome); and INDEX: Design to Improve Life in Copenhagen. More: PorterAnderson.com