Posted on July 9, 2009 by Elizabeth
The Online Writer: a Two-Part Seminar on Website Design, Blogging, and Web-based Work for Writers
WriterHouse, 508 Dale Avenue, Charlottesville, 434-296-1922.
2 Saturdays, August 15, and September 12, 9 am – 4:30 pm
In Part 1, copywriter and communications consultant Kristen King will give a soup-to-nuts picture of what it means to be a writer in the [...]
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Posted on March 3, 2009 by Elizabeth
Love it!
Slowpoke Comics: Amazon Kindle in an Alternate Universe.
Filed under: art, books, fun, reading, technology, writing | Tagged: Amazon, comics, Jen Sorensen, Kindle, Slowpoke Comics | Leave a Comment »
Posted on January 1, 2009 by Elizabeth
Posted on November 9, 2008 by Elizabeth
JOHN & HANK GREEN: THE GREAT AMERICAN TOUR DE NERDFIGHTING 2008
You’ve seen ‘em on YouTube. Now see ‘em in person! The original Nerdfighters are coming to town at the Northside Library on November 10 at 6pm.
John Green is the award winning author of Looking for Alaska, An Abundance of Katherines, and Paper Towns. Hank Green [...]
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Posted on September 25, 2008 by Elizabeth
Hey, I know this guy! And I think he’s got a terrific idea — a killer app for document critique:
Cutting through the spin of political campaigns can make one’s head spin, but thanks to Albemarle resident Dan Doernberg, founder of Fairness.com, voters across the country will have a new tool just in time for tomorrow [...]
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Posted on September 20, 2008 by Elizabeth
From the Jefferson-Madison Regional Library:
Learn to use HeritageQuest for your genealogical sleuthing.
The Jefferson-Madison Regional Library will provide two training sessions on how to use HeritageQuest which is a collection of research materials for doing genealogy research. The sessions will be Friday Oct 31, 9:30 am at the Central Library and Saturday Nov 1, [...]
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Posted on August 26, 2008 by Elizabeth
Tim at LibraryThing contemplates the future, now that Amazon has acquired Shelfari:
Any any case, once the Amazon/Shelfari deal goes through, we are competing against Amazon.
The second element, as many also know, is that Amazon recently announced its intention to acquire Abebooks, the Canadian used-books aggregator that owns 40% of LibraryThing. The acquisiton will take place [...]
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Posted on July 5, 2008 by Elizabeth
Some news from Duotrope:
Greetings from Duotrope’s Digest,
Notes for this week:
We were 8% short of our contributions goal for the month of June. We thank everyone who donated!
What the heck is going on at duotrope.com? If you’ve been on our site lately, you’ve probably noticed that it’s running very slowly and that there are more [...]
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Posted on May 28, 2008 by Elizabeth
From Charlie’s Diary:
Either way, the direct costs of the Iraq war exceed the maximum cost estimate for a manned Mars expedition, infrastructure and all, by 20%. If we take $20Bn as the cost per mission and $450Bn as the cost to develop the technology to go there, the direct cost of the Iraq war would [...]
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Posted on March 28, 2008 by Elizabeth
Where have I been all my life? Barely conscious, I guess, because I didn’t know the Book Festival sessions that take place in the City Council Chamber are being streamed live over the Internet! Click on “Streamed Live” and wait for the player to load.
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Posted on March 20, 2008 by Elizabeth
The podcast of Dr. Francis Collins‘ lecture to the Jefferson Literary and Debating Society on March 14, 2008, has been posted at Charlottesville Podcasting Network.
Dr. Collins is a native of Virginia and an alumnus of the University of Virginia. His talk was titled, “Genomics, Medicine, and Society.”
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Posted on March 2, 2008 by Elizabeth
Call me geeky, but I think this is just swell — HarperCollins has made a little widget that allows you to “browse inside” selected books. Here are a few of my favorites. G’head, browse inside!
Browse Inside this book
Get this for your site
Browse Inside this book
Get this for your site
Browse Inside this book
Get this for your [...]
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Posted on February 19, 2008 by Elizabeth
Titlepage.tv will feature online shows about books and authors. From their web site:
Dear Reader,
I’m writing to thank you for your interest in Titlepage, and to let you know what to expect when the first episode goes up on our site on 3.3.08.
Our guests on that initial show will include Richard [...]
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Posted on February 15, 2008 by Elizabeth
I had no idea Starbucks charges for wi-fi access. I guess I thought the profit margin on a four-dollar cup of coffee would cover the overhead on a thing like that.
Segue to a plug for our local independents: Our writing group has been meeting nearly every week at Cville Coffee for about three years now. [...]
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Posted on January 15, 2008 by Elizabeth
Don’t know if you can follow this link, but Netflix has lifted the limits on how many movies you can “watch instantly” from their site. Mr. Glass and I never came close to hitting our previous limit (we’re uber-subscribers) but now we don’t have to worry about it. The streaming videos are a good way [...]
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