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Our Cluttered Mind, Jonah Lehrer's review (NYTimes 5-27-10) of The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains by Nicholas Carr, who wrote Is Google Making Us Stupid? for The Atlantic (July/August 2008).
"And sure, in a perfect world, I'd love to be getting paid for this post. But I have my own agenda and I'm willing to do it for the valuable exposure I get. The HuffPo is full of contributors just like me. Authors write pieces to promote the sale of more books. Consultants opine to grow their franchises. Politicians mount their soapbox because they know their constituents are there. Even starfuckers show up with the hope of having their piece sit next to Alec Baldwin's. We all have own raison d'ętre for being there. Arianna has assembled the Web's best cocktail party and seemingly everybody wants to be on the list."
~ Raymond Leon Roker, In Defense of FREE: Why I Don't Care That Arianna Doesn't Pay Me“Blogging isn’t a particularly good training for writing. There’s too much voice, in a way. It’s like Colbert’s truthiness: There’s too much ‘voiciness,’ and not enough fact.”
~ Tina Brown, quoted in New York magazine article by Vanessa Grigoriadis. Tina Brown's blog is The Daily Beast (news reporting and opinion) "Never get into an argument with people who buy ink by the barrel."
~ Satchel Paige
"How can I know what I think until I see what I say?"
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E-mail Pat (pat at patmcnees dot com)
Writers on Writing(complete archive of the NY Times series, writers exploring literary themes. Requires free membership.)
Letters of Note (fascinating letters, postcards, telegrams, faxes, and memos--that you were never expected to see)
Aha Moments (from the brilliant Mutual of Omaha campaign to record people's stories about moments of clarity, defining moments when they gained the wisdom to change their life)
TED: Ideas worth sharing Riveting talks by remarkable people, free to the world
Freelance National Anthem (Bill Dyszel, 4 minutes)
KeepMeOut (addicted to a website? bookmark this page and it will remind you to get back to work!)
Today's Front Pages (check out Newseum's U.S. map -- move your cursor across the map and see the front pages change)
Online Education Database150 resources to help you write better, faster, or more persuasively
Help a reporter out (HARO)(useful for reporters and for sources)
Paris Review "Writers at Work" Interviews (selections from 1953 on, a gift to the world, and with a single click you can view a manuscript page with the writer's edits)
The Onion (if the news is making you sick, try this approach)
Truth-o-meter (St. Petersburg Times, www.politifact.com)(St. Pete Times on whether, and how much, various notable people are telling the truth)
Fact Check (Annenberg sorts political truths from half-truths)
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Blogs, gossip, opinions,
watchdog reports, citizen journalism, daily news roundups,
and online magazines that help keep us up-to-date on news and issues
The emphasis here is on up-to-date news, opinions, commentary, must-reads, backgrounders, gossip, secrets, rants, and inside information, with links to blogs for special interests, such as health problems, as well.
• About blogs and blogging
• Blog roll (and great stuff)
***** FTC publishes guidelines governing endorsements, testimonials: Changes affect testimonial advertisements, bloggers, celebrity endorsements. For example: "the post of a blogger who receives cash or in-kind payment to review a product is considered an endorsement. Thus, bloggers who make an endorsement must disclose the material connections they share with the seller of the product or service." Be aware of "the long standing principle that 'material connections'(sometimes payments or free products) between advertisers and endorsers – connections that consumers would not expect – must be disclosed." Read those guidelines! [Go Top]
BLOG ROLL (AND GREAT STUFF)
Here, on Baseline Scenario, is "a good example of how a blog can be light years better than any traditional media," wrote Anita Bartholomew in a recent e-mail. "James Kwak wrote a post in which he responded to New Yorker economist/writer James Surowiecki's criticism of an earlier post. If you're at all interested in the financial meltdown, the TARP, stress tests, et al., this is a post/comment thread not to be missed because you're watching two top economic minds hash out the most important economics issue of the moment (and possibly, our lifetimes)."
ProPublica (Journalism in the public interest)
WikiLeaks, a multi-jurisdictional public service designed to protect whistleblowers, journalists and activists who have sensitive materials to communicate.
Women in Crime Ink. A crew of women (journalists, true-crime authors, novelists, lawyers, investigators) (and guest males?) explore crime, the justice system, and related topics.
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A GREAT READ
Books for book clubs
Best reads and most "discussable"
Great search links
Fact-finding, fact-checking, and news and info resources
BOOK AND MAGAZINE PUBLISHING
Acquiring, swapping, or selling books
New and used books, Amazon.com and elsewhere
Communicating and marketing online (Web 2.0)
Blogs, social media, podcasts, ezines, survey tools and online games
Marketing, publicity, promotion
Blogs, video promotion, intelligent radio programs
Self-publishing and print on demand (POD)
Indie publishing, digital publishing, POD, how-to articles
So, You Want to Write a Book!
Includes original text by Sarah Wernick
WRITERS AND CREATORS
Awards, grants, fellowships
Plus contests and other sources of funding
Corporate and technical communications
Copywriting, speechwriting, marketing, training, and the like
Fiction writing
Literary and commercial (including genre)
Mastering art and craft
Writing, reporting, multimedia, equipment, software
Media pros and other allied professionals
Translators, indexers, designers, photographers, artists, illustrators, animators, cartoonists, image professionals, composers
Specialty and niche writing
Groups for writers who specialize in animals, children's books, food, gardens, family history, resumes, sports, travel, Webwriting, and wine (etc.)
ETHICS, RIGHTS, AND OTHER ISSUES
EDITORS AND EDITING
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