{"id":1451,"date":"2010-02-06T20:43:00","date_gmt":"2010-02-06T20:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/?p=1451"},"modified":"2018-11-20T05:32:32","modified_gmt":"2018-11-20T05:32:32","slug":"news-of-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/?p=1451","title":{"rendered":"News of the Week"},"content":{"rendered":"
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I need to do this more often: just share my interesting blog-reading from the week. I love it when people do that on their<\/i> blogs. Why shouldn’t I share? So here I go–a few tidbits from my week of online reading.<\/p>\n

Venta de Libros.<\/b> Amazon vs. Macmillan has fomented a HUUUUGE amount of discussion in the blogosphere, provoked by Amazon’s choice to remove the “buy” link from all of their Macmillan titles. Amazon explains their reasoning here<\/a>, Roger Sutton offers another viewpoint<\/a> on the matter over at Read Roger, and the vast, multi-story-Galactic-Senate-Building-on-Coruscant-like conglomeration of bloggers is off and running. Don’t you just love us?? And thanks to Carmela Martino at Teaching Authors<\/a>, I learned another side of the story from Author’s Guild about Macmillan’s e-royalties<\/a> and a new Who Moved My Buy Button?<\/a> website that enables authors to keep track of their Amazon pages. All veeery interesting.<\/p>\n

Social Networking.<\/b> I enjoyed reading Gregory K’s take on Facebook Friends vs. Fans<\/a> over at The Happy Accident–not to mention the comments from others weighing in on how they view their various online communities and how they deal with those periodic baffling “Do I know you?” friend requests that come out of nowhere. And, speaking of social media, those in journalism–and those who like to approach their blogs as a more professional endeavor–should take a gander at the Radio Television Digital News Association’s Social Media and Blogging Guidelines<\/a>. Professional journalists are supposed to adhere to a code of ethics, but when it comes to the online world, things can get a bit confusing. They’ve got some helpful do’s, don’ts, and examples. <\/p>\n

Tea Cozy Binge<\/b> I went over to A Chair, A Fireplace & A Tea Cozy<\/a> to see if Liz B. had any posts up about the Amazon\/Macmillan thing and instead got sidetracked by a bunch of unrelated but equally interesting stuff: reviews of Rosemary Clement-Moore’s The Splendor Falls<\/i><\/a> (which I just finished reading) and Varian Johnson’s Saving Maddie<\/i><\/a>, plus a great post on the annoying shoulds of being a blogger<\/a>. (Those dang shoulds in my own head…those are the kicker, aren’t they?)<\/p>\n

On Getting Back to Work.<\/b> I found a great site on the topic of getting your mind to focus on your creative work called 43 Folders<\/a> (by the most auspiciously-named Merlin Mann). There, I found a link to the SFWA’s list of 50 Strategies for Making Yourself Work<\/a> as well as Merlin Mann’s own post, Hack Your Way out of Writer’s Block<\/a>. Also, don’t miss his 3-part series on devoting attention to creative work: it’s called Making Time to Make<\/a> and I think we all need to be reminded of this from time to time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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