Comments on: The Pitch: Roundup http://eatsleeppublish.com/the-pitch-roundup/ Thoughts on the future of publishing Thu, 26 May 2011 22:44:01 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Jason Preston http://eatsleeppublish.com/the-pitch-roundup/comment-page-1/#comment-1954 Jason Preston Fri, 20 Mar 2009 00:45:00 +0000 http://eatsleeppublish.com/?p=1666#comment-1954 <strong>Russ</strong> - of course you're invited! Although I have to admit that my goal with the Pitch has never been to force any sort of coming together. I'm more interested in creating an atmosphere where people can share ideas. In my experience, if people aren't motivated to do something themselves, there's very little you can do to change that. Russ – of course you’re invited! Although I have to admit that my goal with the Pitch has never been to force any sort of coming together. I’m more interested in creating an atmosphere where people can share ideas.

In my experience, if people aren’t motivated to do something themselves, there’s very little you can do to change that.

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I wasn’t able to mingle afterwards, so maybe that’s what happened then. Suffice it to say that the general tone of the discussion — journalism is mired in a terrible economic mess — to be depressing, thus that’s why I tweeted that.

Looking forward to the next Pitch … that is, if I’m invited. ;-)

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