Politico: DRUDGE for Obama - Yeah, Right

What, was this a slow news day or something? The Politico is reporting that they think Drudge is pro-Obama based on his coverage on the DRUDGE REPORT. Around last Halloween I covered a story by The New York Times...

Six Tips for Powerful Copywriting

Six Tips for Powerful Copywriting Copywriting is the one skill which all online business owners should learn. As an online marketer you communicate through words – if those words aren’t effectively conveying your message, then you’re in for a long and...

Belgian woman encourages jihadists with internet postings

Why a woman, and a Belgian woman at that, is working to encourage more men to become bombers and killers in a worldwide Muslim jihad is something that's hard to comprehend. Malika El Aroud is also encouraging...

The audacity and hope of Barak Obama, the writer

Barak Obama's first book, Dreams From My Father, contains composite characters, invented dialogue and other literary techniques. But the fact that he did the writing himself -- he didn't use a ghostwriter or...

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?

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...

Michael Moore Backs Barack, Calls Out 'Disgusting' Clinton

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...

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...

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.

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...

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