Huffington Post:
The new website PoetrySpeaks is aiming to serve as a social networking hub and online marketplace for poets. Visitors are greeted with a sleek, jukebox-style display of poet portraiture and an unpretentious atmosphere. And it's immediately clear that PoetrySpeaks casts a wide net: among the home page's collage of clickabl (Read More)
The Huffington Post | Full News Feed:
Hey kids! Remember that time when South Carolina Governor Mark Sanford disappeared off the face of the earth, leaving his perplexed staff behind to guess that he was hiking the Appalachian Trail, except that actually he was off having an affair with his Latin American soul mate? Good times. And the media responded to the (Read More)
Submitted by Hanna Wiszniewska
from Google Reader:
I've never met my fellow PT blogger Sophia Dembling in person but consider her a friend of sorts. We met as members of one or another online writer communities that we both frequent because we have so many overlapping interests. She lives in Texas but her roots are pure New York. I love her sense of humor and her refreshing (Read More)
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In the usually wonky world of non-profit issue-advocacy organizations, a decidedly political campaign has been waged against foreign policy institutions that promote diplomacy over militarism. Two relatively new organizations -- each covering distinctly opposite ends on the spectrum of Middle Eastern affairs -- have been th (Read More)
CloudAve:
CloudAve readers can now follow the contributing bloggers’ twitter stream in a sidebar, thanks to a cool widget called Tweet Blender.  Finding it was not easy: I combed through at least 100 plugins / widgets, all doing essentially the same: follow a person, or do keyword search. Either or.. not both. And definitely not a (Read More)
Film News from Times Online:
I would not have read Keats’s poems if I had not been avoiding adapting a book for the screen in which the protagonist was a creative-writing teacher. The thought was that before proceeding I should enlarge my knowledge of English poetry and literature. It was on this account that I bought a biography on Keats by Andrew Mot (Read More)
Huffington Post:
Perhaps I'm typical in that I became a writer because I don't feel like dealing with you. I certainly don't feel like doing what you say. Well, not you, but You. You know what I mean, don't You? Am I alone in my sense that writing for a living is partly about enjoying the act of writing, and partly about and inability (unwi (Read More)
Huffington Post:
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — When people sign up for Twitter, the popular social-networking site presents a list of suggested users to follow, driving significant traffic to sports figures, celebrities, politicians and other prominent posters.In California, the list has attracted the attention of political watchdogs because it appa (Read More)
Huffington Post:
NEW YORK — A balloon racing across the Colorado sky without a 6-year-old boy inside. A major lobbyist not changing its position on climate change. A shootout with terrorists on the Potomac River that never happened.It's been a rough season for non-news. The recent spate of hoaxes and premature stories exposes a dange (Read More)
The Blog of Innocence:
This book expanded my understanding of what a novel can do. As a writer, there has been no greater influence.I've read it three times from beginning to end, and I return to passages regularly. The Man Without Qualities is a three volume work, left unfinished at the author's death. The serial chapters continually open up the (Read More)
Huffington Post:
The redesign itself is pretty standard: a less cluttered homepage, featuring more images and less text, plus more social media. Citizen journalism project iReport will no longer be a standalone site; users will be redirected to a section on the main site, which will allows users to continue to upload their photos and storie (Read More)
Submitted by Frinsen
from Google Reader:
Networks, Crowds, and Markets – Reasoning About A Highly Connected World – by David Easley and Jon Kleinberghttp://www.cs.cornell.edu/home/kleinber/networks-book/networks-book.pdf- ContentsChapter 1. Overview1.1 Aspects of Networks1.2 Central Themes and TopicsPart I Graph Theory and Social NetworksChapter 2. Graphs2.1 Bas (Read More)
The Huffington Post | Full News Feed:
ROME — Archaeologists on Wednesday unveiled the remains of an ancient auditorium where scholars, politicians and poets held debates and lectures, a site discovered during excavations of a bustling downtown piazza in preparation for a new subway line.The partially dug complex, dating back to the 2nd century A.D., is believed (Read More)
Submitted by Markdykeman
from Google Reader:
There are days when I don’t feel like writing.If we’re going to be perfectly honest about it, there are many days when I don’t feel like writing.In fact, there hasn’t been a single day in recent memory in which I bounded out of bed just dying to get my hands on a pen or the computer keyboard, my head bursting with the desir (Read More)
Huffington Post:
We have known that women could write since Sappho invented love poetry 2600 years ago. Emily Dickinson, Charlotte Bronte, Jane Austen, George Eliot could also write -- not to mention Virginia Woolf, Doris Lessing and all the other scribbling women through the ages. So why are we so surprised that four women took the top lit (Read More)