In some venues, the freedom to tweet, tag, or snap is being denied.  Clubs are denying entry to anyone who takes pictures of other groups at the club and then posts them to Facebook.  A storytelling venue prohibits tweeting during the show.  An...
Topics: Facebook, oversharing, Social Marketing, Twitter, writing

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The Saturday Evening Post has “revamped” and is looking for new fiction.  With the dwindling newspaper and magazine market, this is a bold effort by the Post.  Hopefully, readers will be rewarded by good, fresh writing.  Click here for the.
Topics: fiction, Twitter, writing, Writing Resources

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Another website has opened up, to give self-published authors more visibility:  IndieReader.com.  Read the article here in the Christian Science Monitor.  IndieReader.com describes itself as being “For self-published and print-on-demand books...
Topics: Amy Holman Edelman, books, IndieRead.com, publishing, self-publishing, writing, Writing Resources

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This is off the writing track, but it’s one of my pet peeves that gets peaked now and then:  fat as in body weight and body image.  Here’s an excellent article in the Sunday NY Times revealing how celebrities contribute to our (at least, women’s).
Topics: celebrities, diet, fat, gluttony, Human Rights, Kristie Alley, Oprah, Puritan, self-discipline, weight, weight battles

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No, I’m not going to bash Twitter.  The application, like Facebook, is great in and of itself.  But how these apps are used begs the question of mundanity.  See Matt Bai’s essay in today’s New York Times:  “The Chatty...
Topics: daily diary, Facebook, Matt Bai, NY Times, Social Marketing, Twitter, writing

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