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Not-so-quiet Weekend

I'll be not doing much here over the weekend, as I'm working on a major activist campaign.

However! If anyone has entries for the Family Picnic, please get them them in! More info here.

Take Back the News!

I've only spent a little time with this, but TBTN is just wonderful! IMHO ;>)

Calista's Wednesday Links

Bureau of Justice Statistics
http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/
Facts at a glance - crime, criminals, law enforcement.

Get It Write
http://www.getitwriteonline.com/archive/tips.htm
Grammar website providing tips, rules, and examples.

Legal Information Institute
http://www4.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/
Site maintained by Cornell University indexes American
copyright laws title 17 by chapter.

The Wag of the "long tail"

If you've heard about the "long tail," (or not!)

Scott Rosenberg has a roundup of various posts talking about the possibilities.

The basic idea here is that the Internet provides many indie publishers with the ability to serve niche markets, and even smaller niches within those markets. It's no longer the day of the mass-market publication, where a few books get major success, while smaller publishers languish in obscurity.

The Future of the Internet

Washington, D.C. -- January 10, 2005 -- A wide-ranging survey of technology leaders, scholars, industry officials, and analysts finds that most Internet experts expect attacks on the network infrastructure in the coming decade as the Internet becomes more embedded in everyday and commercial life.
Some 66 percent of the experts responding to a survey by the Pew Internet & American Life Project and Elon University agreed with the following prediction: At least one devastating attack will occur in the next 10 years on the networked information infrastructure or the country’s power grid.

Join Me At New Communications Forum 2005!

If you’re a PR or marketing professional considering starting a corporate blog, want to learn how to maximize your blog, or how new tools such as wikis and RSS newsfeeds are becoming crucial tools for your communications toolkit, you should attend New Communications Forum.

NewComm Forum: Blog University will provide an in-depth, hands-on exploration of the future of communications. Learn the basics of blogging, how to get started, tools to use, policies, guidelines for and potential pitfalls, how to use blogs in conferences and employee communications, the role of blogs in a crisis, strategies and tactics for increasing a blog’s visibility, tools for measuring success, and how to pitch to blogs. I invite you to join me at NewComm Forum!  Visit www.newcommforum.com for full event details and to register!

This blogging thing is starting to look interesting

Are Blogs the New Journalism - Richard Koman at O'Reilly

The way TIME magazine saw it in December, 2004 was the start of a "golden age" of blogging -- the rapid-fire web publishing scheme where anyone can publish their rants, photos or detailed reporting on the web in a matter of seconds. While blogging has been around for four or five years, the combination of the hotly contested election and the growth in popularity of blogging tools meant that blogging had hit critical mass...Read more here

Inteview up at the Blog Herald

Duncan Riley of the Blog Herald interviewed me shortly before Xmas. Have to say it was fun blathering on about myself! ;>)

Wayne at Blog Business World has some very kind words about yours truly.

...and Angela Booth, longtime writer's advisor, agrees with my view.

Some days are just sunny! Thanks, you guys!

Writer's Wednesday at WOLves!

Wednesday's content is entirely about writers and writing. No tech stuff, no blog news, no current events.

Everything will be posted, and in this top post, I'll link back to everything -- kindalike my own little Carnival of Writers.

If you wanted to submit something and didn't make it in this week, no worries, there's always next week! Submission addy>> twschuett-at-peoplepc-dot-com
Loose guidelines: I prefer not to have erotica/X-rated material. No agents, book doctors, or other "writer's services." Just about anything else related to writers/writing is fair game.

Not much this time but hey -- it's a start!

Calista's Wednesday Linx

Announcements!

Announcements!

I have a little website called "A Carnival-Like Atmosphere of Glee" at
www.carnivalofglee.com It's full of essays (serious and not so much),
shorts, and a few photos about life politics and culture. And it's
free.
Arnie the Carnie
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Who Moved My Rice? - Michael LaRocca

http://freereads.topcities.com/archive.html
You can't eat grits with chopsticks. After stumble-bumbling my way around China for the past five years, I feel comfortable enough here to write about it, both the serious and the silly, along with anything else that happens to pop into my head. Sometimes I even comment on your side of the globe.
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The Ninth Storyblogging Carnival is now online at A Small Victory. The post about it is here: http://asmallvictory.net/archives/007937.html, which leads you to the Carnival's own page here: http://asmallvictory.net/storyblog.html