In his new book, The Year Without Pants: Wordpress.com and the Future of Work, author Scott Berkun outlined what he learned while working as a manager at the major blog company. On today's Morning Media Menu, Berkun shared insights that can help editors, publishers and writers cope with the rapidly changing digital workplace.

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Scott Berkun Shares Advice for Writers Working Remotely

Author Hillel Cooperman decided to serialize a beta-version of self-published young adult book on Facebook this month. On the Morning Media Menu, we caught up with Cooperman to get advice about finding an illustrator and his Facebook experiment.

How a Self Published YA Author Found an Illustrator

Today on the Morning Media Menu, author and Publishers Marketplace news editor Sarah Weinman explained how she created her new collection, Troubled Daughters, Twisted Wives: Stories from the Trailblazers of Domestic Suspense.

Sarah Weinman on Creating a Short Story Anthology

After Caroline Criado-Perez helped get novelist Jane Austen's face on the £10 note in the UK, she was swamped with abusive comments on Twitter. Since then, more than 90,000 people have signed an online petition urging Twitter to add a "report abuse" button on everyone's Twitter profile. SocialTimes editor Devon Glenn talked about the controversy on the Morning Media Menu today. Click here to receive Mediabistro’s Daily Newsfeed via email. Music by Kevin MacLeod.

Does Twitter Need a 'Report Abuse' Button?

Netflix's House of Cards series received Emmy nominations for best series, best lead actress and best lead actor in a drama today. In addition, Jason Bateman got an Emmy nod for best lead actor in a comedy in Netflix's Arrested Development. AgencySpy editor Kiran Aditham talked about the Netflix award nominations on the Morning Media Menu today. He also discussed a series of high profile changes around the advertising world. Press play below to listen on SoundCloud. Click here to receive Mediabistro's Daily Newsfeed via email. Music by Kevin MacLeod.

Netflix Scores Multiple Emmy Nominations

Someday, will you have to worry about getting hacked by graffiti or posters? Today on the Morning Media Menu, we discussed how Lookout security hacked Google Glass using a QR codes. TVNewser senior editor Alex Weprin also talked about Keith Olbermann's expected return to ESPN

Hacking Google Glass

SocialTimes editor Devon Glenn shared a new suite of Reddit analytics tools today on the Morning Media Menu. She also talked about a free set of Tumblr tools that were released earlier this week.

Free Reddit & Tumblr Analytics Tools

Today's guest on the Morning Media Menu was Ben H. Winters. He has written a number of novels, including Edgar Award-winning The Last Policeman. Countdown City, the sequel to that genre bending novel about a detective solving crimes at the end of the world, comes out this week.

Ben H. Winters on Writing Genre-Bending Novels

In this encore edition of the Morning Media Menu, we spoke novelist and blogger Cory Doctorow, author of the 2010 book, "For the Win." He spoke about online currency, book promotion and the feasibility of unions in digital culture. Doctorow discussed his strategy of releasing a free eBook edition of his book alongside the print book.

Cory Doctorow on Free eBooks & Unions

Goodreads has created a great infographic exploring the books most often abandoned by readers on the social network. The Casual Vacancy by J.K. Rowling topped that list, followed by Fifty Shades of Grey by E.L. James. On the Morning Media Menu today, Social Times editor Devon Glenn discussed this list and explored what writers need to know about Facebook's new Social Graph function. Theme music by Kevin MacLeod.

The Most Abandoned Books on Goodreads

In a bookselling world filled with memoirs, it requires some ingenuity and online work to make your work stand out from the pack. One writer used CafePress to make her memoir stand out. In this encore edition of the Morning Media Menu was author Rachel Shukert, talking about her her memoir, Everything Is Going to Be Great: An Underfunded and Overexposed European Grand Tour. Shukert shared advice for aspiring memoirists about creating a unique book and writing frankly about one's personal life.

How Writers Can Use CafePress

In this encore edition of the Morning Media Menu, we interviewed author Evan Hughes about his new book, Literary Brooklyn: The Writers of Brooklyn and the Story of American City Life. While introducing some of the great Brooklyn novelists featured in his literary history, Hughes also shared the secret behind a great book party.

How To Make a Great Book Party

In this encore edition of the Morning Media Menu, we spoke with New Yorker staff writer and The Lost City of Z author David Grann. Author bios on glossy book jackets give the illusion that a writer climbed to the top of the literary profession in heroic, purpose-filled strides. Grann turned that creation myth upside down in an interview.

New Yorker Staff Writer Shares Advice

In this encore edition of the Morning Media Menu from 2010, we interviewed Where’d You Go, Bernadette author Maria Semple. Press play below to listen on SoundCloud. She talked about her transition from television scriptwriter to novelist. Semple wrote for shows that included Beverly Hills 90210, Saturday Night Live, Mad About You, and Arrested Development. During the interview, Semple (pictured, via) delivered some tough advice for writers considering moving into scriptwriting.

Maria Semple Shares Writing Advice

With Imgur's new Meme Generator, you can instantaneously create a meme to share on Tumblr, Facebook, Twitter or your blog. AgencySpy editor Kiran Aditham talked about the new tool on the Morning Media Menu today. He also discussed why advertising agency Grey has resigned its account with E*Trade.

Make a Meme with Imgur's New Tool

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