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Saturday, May 28, 2005

Be there or be square! ;>)

BLOGGING WORKSHOP
What is this buzz about blogging?   

Find out all about it at this interactive workshop that will answer these six questions:
 What is a blog?
 Who uses blogs?
 Where do I blog?
 How do I blog?
 Why should I blog?
 How do I find an audience and promote my blogs?

When:  7 – 9 a.m., Friday, June 17th
Where:  Room #170, Arizona Western College Career Center, 1351 S. Redondo Center Drive.
Cost:  $19.95
Register: Call Carmen Madero at 928-317-6181, Monday–Friday, 7a.m.–3:30p.m.

Wednesday, May 25, 2005

Storyblogging Carnival

Donald just reminded me that I should send out an email announcing that the carnival is online.

Blush.

Ok - um - it's online.

This is the address: 
http://talesbysheya.blogspot.com/2005/05/storyblogging-carnival-xix.html

Please have a read, and link to it on your blog.

Thanks.

Sheya-the-forgetful

Calista's Wednesday Links

AuthorLink
http://www.authorlink.com/index.html
http://www.authorlink.com/asublist.html#guidelines
Membership community offers writers resources, articles and a variety of other informational tools for writers including agent and editorial information.

Crime Scene Investigation
http://www.feinc.net/cs-inv-p.htm
An incredible wealth of forensic and crime scene information gathered and published by retired Illinois State Police Master Sargent Hayden Baldwin.

Guide to Grammar and Style
http://andromeda.rutgers.edu/~jlynch/Writing/
Jack Lynch has updated his grammar, style, and usage guide. And if you need more he provides additional grammar links.

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Wednesday, May 18, 2005

Storyblogging Carnival - Submissions

Hi y'all,

I will be hosting the next Storyblogging Carnival, number XIX.  If you'd like to participate, please send me an e-mail with the following information:

    * Name of your blog
    * URL of your blog
    * Title of the story
    * URL for the blog entry where the story is posted
    * (OPTIONAL) Author's name
    * (OPTIONAL) A suggested rating for adult content (G, PG, PG-13, R)
    * A word count
    * A short blurb describing the story

The deadline is midnight on Saturday, May 21st, with the carnival being held on Monday, May 23rd. 

More information can be found at:

http://talesbysheya.blogspot.com/2005/05/upcoming-storyblogging-carnival-xix.html

Also, please let me know if you'd like to host a future
carnival.

Thanks,

Sheya
http://www.talesbysheya.blogspot.com

Calista's Wednesday Links

A Beginner's Primer on the Investigation of Forensic Evidence
http://www.scientific.org/tutorials/articles/kruglick/kruglick.html
Easy lay out of information vital to a crime or mystery writer.

Agent Information
http://www.nataliercollins.com/agents.html
http://www.nataliercollins.com/agentinfo.html/
http://www.nataliercollins.com/agentbook.html
Author Natalie Collins, like most writers, has spent considerable
time gathering agent information, she is nice enough to share it.
Don't miss her book on the subject:
Buy This Book and I'll Wash Your Car: How to--or not to--Get a Literary Agent

The Basic Plots of Literature
http://www.ipl.org/ref/QUE/FARQ/plotFARQ.html
Offered by the Internet Public Library.

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Monday, May 16, 2005

Truths of New Media

New truths of new media at Lost Remote
If we are ever to move past the "gee whiz" stage of tech, we need to preach some gospel and evangelize the new media. We need to spread the word -- the good news if you will. The time for opinion is over. Here is the New Truth...

THX to Jeff Jarvis for the heads-up

Wednesday, May 11, 2005

Linotype Inventor

Profile America -- Wednesday, May 11. Today marks the birthday of a German-American whose name may not be familiar, but whose invention had a profound impact on the reading habits of all Americans and, indeed, the world. His name was Otto Mergenthaler. His invention, the linotype machine, allowed one person to set type for printing by simply pressing keys on a keyboard bypassing four different operations at much greater speeds. Historians say his machine was the greatest advance in printing since the development of moveable type 400 years earlier. The linotype machine was first used in 1886 by the New York Tribune. That year, about 6.5 million Americans read a daily newspaper. Today's papers have a circulation of more than 55 million each day. Find these and more facts about America from the U.S. Census Bureau on the Web at http://www.census.gov.

Storyblogging Carnival

The latest storyblogging carnival is up at
http://www.donaldscrankshaw.com/posts/1115686839.shtml.  Enjoy.

Thanks,

Donald
--
Donald S. Crankshaw
Back of the Envelope -- http://www.donaldscrankshaw.com

Calista's Wednesday Links

Access Copyright
http://www.accesscopyright.ca/
Formerly known as Cancopy. Canadian Copyright Licensing Agency, offers copyright information newsletter, links, education and licensing.

Association of Author Representatives
http://www.aar-online.org
Not-for profit organization of indepent literary and dramatic agents.

Criminal Justice Resources Center: Forensic Sciences
http://www.lib.msu.edu/harris23/crimjust/forsci.htm
Maintained by Michigan State University this is the must have of resource link pages for crime and mystery writers researching facts.

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Saturday, May 07, 2005

GovTech encourages Government Bloggers

The highly intelligent and insightful editorial staff at Gov Tech has selected an article written by me to appear in their pages, encouraging more people from state and local government to blog. (This is the piece I wrote for Global PRBlog Week 1.0, BTW)

It's here.