Arthur Brisbane asked readers Should The Times Be a Truth Vigilante?, in on his Public Editor's blog for the New York Times (1-12-12). Referring to stories about Clarence Thomas's claim that he had "misunderstood" a financial reporting form when he failed to report his wife's earnings from the Heritage Foundation, and about Mitt Romney's claim that President Obama has a habit of "apologizing" for America) Read More
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Author alert: Reclaim rights on books pubbed 1978 and after
January 10, 2012
"There is a provision in the 1978 copyright law that allows authors to reclaim rights to their books after 35 years," writes Mike Shatzkin in paragraph 17 of an interesting post about book publishing. "Titles published in 1978 become eligible for reversion, called 'recapture' apparently, starting in 2013. (With logic that is Read More
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Gratitude (Louie Schwartzberg)
January 7, 2012
Get a cup of tea and allow yourself ten minutes to which this beautiful 10-minute video by Louie Schwartzberg, a secular sermon of sorts, combined with visuals for meditation. Gratitude Click on bottom right corner to see full-screen image
If for some reason you get a DIFFERENT video, about a Grandfather's Journal, that's a fluke of this Authors Guild software. Go instead to:
Louis Schwartzberg, Gratitude
Beautiful time-motion views of nature and, later, of people and an elder talking about how to appreciate a day
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gXDMoiEkyuQ
History in and for a digital age
January 6, 2012
History may be changing now as profoundly as it changed when Gutenberg introduced print, writes William Cronon, president of the American Historical Association. In a thought-provoking essay, The Public Practice of History in and for a Digital Age, Cronon writes that for "those of us in the humanities, the essence of a university consisted of Read More
Soundtrack of your life
January 5, 2012
"Sean Connors studies the way adolescents understand and interact with graphic novels, the more sophisticated successor to comic books," writes Heidi Stambuck's in The Sights and Sounds of Literature (Research Frontiers, University of Arkansas). Chris Goering examines what happens when English teachers ask students to analyze their favorite song lyrics and relate the lyrics to their personal history Read More
Organizations for writers, editors, and publishing professionals
January 4, 2012
My Writers and Editors website is a little like Fibber McGee's closet, so I created a directory for myself, which I realized might be helpful to others. Here it is: a list of lists with links, by type:
• Agents
• Arts and poetry
• Awards, grants, and Read More
• Agents
• Arts and poetry
• Awards, grants, and Read More
Audio-recording equipment, software, tools and tutorials
January 3, 2012
Newcomers to interviewing often ask about audio equipment, software, tools and tutorials for interviewing and editing. Here are a couple dozen links to resources I've found useful:
• Audio Tools (Transom Tools, a showcase and workshop for New Public Radio) Read More
• Audio Tools (Transom Tools, a showcase and workshop for New Public Radio) Read More