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The Perfect Analogy

I was working on a piece about private charities and their campaigns, when I came upon a way to describe Blogger and BlogSpot.

Mrs. Instapundit has a BlogSpot blog, so I asked her: "Your husband wouldn't ask you to live in a trailer park, would he?"

...now ain't that Blogger to at "T" ?

Calista's Wednesday Links

AskOxford.com
http://www.askoxford.com/
Administered by Oxford University Press, this site offers a global
search engine for English grammar, spelling, q & a, and much more.

Book Promoter
http://www.bookpromoter.com/authors-newsletter.html
Website for authors working to promote their and even
sell their wares. Site offers free forums, newsletters,
site appraisal, and more.

Copyright & Fair Use
http://www-sul.stanford.edu/cpyright.html
Straight forward, easy to understand explaination
and criteria for the fair use of copyrighted
materials.

What’s Wrong with Mainstream Reporting on Domestic Violence

Last October, I tracked hundreds of stories in the US media relating to Domestic Violence Awareness Month. Out of all those, maybe a dozen represented factual reporting with any attempt at objectivity. Mostly the public was subjected to the same baseless factoids and unsupportable statistics that have been floating around for years, and in some cases, decades.

What is needed is an honest approach to the problem, free from ideological philosophies and the concerns most shelter advocates have for their shelter’s budgets and even personal incomes. While it is possible that media have steered clear of any investigation of these services in the belief that to be critical of DV services is to be seen as anti-woman, the fact that so many women are excluded by services themselves should be enough to alleviate those fears.

This is a subject that is in dire need of some light and air, and the media could provide a fine and worthwhile service to the community by asking important questions, and insisting on truthful answers. I've got a post at my other blog that points out the worst and most frequent misinformation, along with some questions that never seem to be asked.

Storyblogging Carnival

Trudy,

I've gotten the Second Year Inauguaral Storyblog up at http://talesoftadeusz.blogspot.com .

Cordially,

Eric R. Ashley

Calista's Wednesday Links

American Bar Association ~ Copyright Basics
http://www.abanet.org/intelprop/comm106/106copy.html
Comprehensive site of legal knowledge that answers questions about the basics of American copyright law. Information includes amplification of existing copyrighted material, who can and what is eligible for copyright registration and what forms should be used for copyrighting.

Filmmakers
http://www.filmmakers.com/index.htm
Screenwriters resource offering news, contest information,and resource links.

Handbook of Forensic Services
http://www.fbi.gov/hq/lab/handbook/intro.htm
Forensic information site run by the FBI details proceedure for evidence submission, examination, and crime scene security and investigation.

Calista's Wednesday Links

The Blue Book of Grammar & Punctuation
http://www.grammarbook.com/
Easy to use online reference guide.

Copyright Society of the USA
http://www.csusa.org/
Organization whose main purpose is to gather,
interchange, and disseminate copyright law and
information.

Midwest Book Review
http://www.midwestbookreview.com/get_rev.htm
Publisher of book reviews for several public and academic library systems
and the internet. Considers small and self published books for review.

Calista's Wednesday Links

Alicia Rasley's Writers' Corner
http://www.sff.net/people/alicia/
Website geared towards Romance writers, but offers tips and courses for writers in all genre.

The Copyright Licensing Agency
http://www.cla.co.uk/
A non-profit organization, British Copyright Law and Licensing Agency offers tips to British writers on protecting their works under the loose British copyright law.

Doollee
http://www.doollee.com/Agents/6CANagents.htm
A searchable database of Canadian Literary Agents.

Camp

This is a short story written especially for the 1st Anniversary issue of the Storyblogging Carnival. See all the entries here!

Calista's Wednesday Links

All Law
http://www.alllaw.com/topics/
An index of law related links from Administrative
Law, to ethics, identity theft and weather related
litigation.

AuthorsLawyer.com
http://www.authorslawyer.com/index.shtml
Offers copyright information from a proauthor viewpoint and copyright
resources. 1976 & 1998 US Copyright Law. Site also offers information
on literary scams broken down by agent, editor, printing and publishers.

Jerry Hill Present Names
http://anzwers.org/free/jhpn/
Need a name for a character? Looking for something interesting, esoteric
or just weird? Say, a tasty little tidbit in Finnish? A 14th century Scottish
given name? Or just something off the wall? Names: tidbits, trivia and a
lot of "Wow! I didn't know that."