Another Monday and I have more great links for you. One of my favorites is Castaway. Here are five incredible stories, each centering on a message in a bottle. Don’t miss it! For the frugal, be sure to check out Changing Font To Save Ink.
- Legal Issues Affecting Writers. [Live Webinar $49; April 15th at 1:00 pm Eastern; duration: 75 minutes.] “Learn about the legal basics of concern to both fiction and nonfiction writers, and how to safely prepare and protect your work while not treading on the copyright or privacy rights of others. This session will also discuss how to get the most out of your publishing contract, for both articles and books.” [Thanks to Nancy Heifferon, APH Marketing Director for alerting me to this item.]
- Use Google Dictionary to See Words Used in Current Context. “If you want to see a word in current usage, most dictionaries offer dated or stilted examples. Google Dictionary combs news sites to pull quotes demonstrating words in current usage.”
- Changing Font To Save Ink. “A Wisconsin university has found a new way to cut costs with e-mail — by changing the font. The University of Wisconsin, Green Bay has switched the default font on its e-mail system from Arial to Century Gothic. The university says the change sounds minor, but it will save money on printer ink when students print out e-mails in the new font.”
- bringing order to digital photo collections. “As more of our photographic images reside in the virtual world, we have not yet developed new systems for keeping track of them. I worry that a generation or more of photographic images will be lost. Here are two books that offer a new system for the digital era.”
- Making Web Video That Sells: eBook Review. “With the ever expanding growth of high speed internet connections, video is cropping up on most major websites more and more. Whether you are informing potential purchasers with a screencast or hoping to direct the next viral experience, video is something that most designers and developers should have at least a basic understanding of.”
- Memoir rooted in cherished, storied objects. “We look to moor our identities in things of the past,” says Seth C. Bruggeman, who teaches public history at Temple University. “We define who we are by the objects we choose to value,” Bruggeman says. “We have an almost religious belief in the power of objects to convey meaning.”
- Cast Away: 5 Amazing Stories of Messages in Bottles. “Whenever a message in a bottle is discovered on a beach or floating in the ocean, it feels like something out of a fairy tale. The idea that two people have made a connection that mathematics would say is virtually impossible gives us hope that life is more than a series of random events. Here are five stories of the almost unbelievable connections these messages have brought about.” [Thanks to Larry Lehmer of Passing It On for alerting me to this item.]
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