Tag: Writing
On being an author - without doing any writing
Margaret Truman, Eliot Roosevelt, Steve Allen - mystery writers? Didthey really take the time out of their celebrity-hood to craft, write and rewrite those mystery novels you see on the bookshelf?
Tushar Mathur, mentioned in SmartMoney magazine
"months back I received an email from the author of the article Anne Kadet, asking to talk to me over the phone about my experience with Bank of America during my hunt for a mortgage.She as writing about a practice that was now being used by banks called "Price Profiling"....
Huckabee to Publish Book on Presidential Bid
Gov. Mike Huckabee is getting set to publish a book this fall on his failed presidential bid.Potential catchy titles include: "Chuck Norris Doesn't Endorse, He Tells America How It's Gonna Be"."Two weeks after the...
Michael Moore Backs Barack, Calls Out 'Disgusting...
Doc flick maker and ubiquitous Bush-critic, Michael Moore, has publicly decried Clinton's recent 'disgusting' campaign tactics and declared his support for Barack Obama's candidacy."Outspoken documentary film-maker...
Crowdsourcing the Writing Process
Last year, I had the opportunity to participate in the experimental 'meta-crowdsourcing' projectAssignment Zero, with Jay Rosen, Wired, and the folks at NewAssignment.net, which undertook to explore all of the ways...
Necklace is 'oldest in Americas'
A necklace that is the oldest known gold object made in the Americas has been found near Lake Titicaca in southern Peru. I wonder if you can still wear it..."Radiocarbon dating puts its origin at about 4,000 years...
Foreign minister loses bags in T5
No one is immune to Heathrow T5 problems."An unnamed EU foreign minister has been caught up in the baggage backlog at Heathrow's new Terminal 5, UK Foreign Secretary David Miliband says.Writing in his blog, Mr...
Get to the point! No time to waste? Be Brief!
Get to the point!In No Resistance is Futile (A Brief Message), Paul Ford explores how short you can go when writing.I am not sure that using a spreadsheet would work for me.He recently did 6 words reviews of 763 songs from South by Southwest bands for The Morning News.
FBI Narrowing Focus on Four Suspects in 9/11 Anth...
"WASHINGTON — The FBI has narrowed its focus to "about four" suspects in the 6 1/2-year investigation of the deadly anthrax attacks of 2001, and at least three of those suspects are linked to the Army’s...
The strength of the early eyewitness report
Poynter Institute vice-president, author and writing guru Roy Peter Clark talks about a seminar presentation he attended by blogger Josh Benton and how he came away struck by Benton's logic on real time...
Web 3.0 is closer than you think
" After Google, what's next? Writing at Times (UK), Jonathan Richards talks to the "real" inventor of the world wide web (sorry Goracle), Tim Berners-Lee, and speculates on the future of the internet. A fascinating article indeed. Here is an excerpt:
" The semantic web is...
Are men and women hardwired for different jobs?
Does biology determine the different ways men and women go about--or want to go about--their careers? Is Hillary Clinton an anomaly, while Donald Trump a fully-realized and prototypical man (yikes).Writer Susan...
Karachi power cuts hit millions
Developing story..."Millions of people in Pakistan's largest city have been without electricity, following a power outage.
Pakistan's state-run utility said it had cut supplies to Karachi because the city's power...
'Rattled' at 50, On March 4, Debra Galant gives b...
If there is someone who can prove that the online world is not populated only by 20 somethings, the forever young Debra Galant proves that it is never too late to do anything you wanna do.
She founded Baristanet a few years back but her proudest achievement might be the...
Lying and Consequences: Author Admits Memoir is M...
Aww, but it makes such a good story...Seriously, it's hard to feel bad for folks like Margaret B. You're not doing yourself any favours by telling other people's stories as though they were your own. No matter how good the stories."In “Love and Consequences,” a critically...
