blogs

Ron Hubbard is probably never going to come back is he? I bet he feels like houdini
alpha waves to ron are you there ron. we need you

NPR just started a new blog dedicated to discussing fictional characters. "Among the things I'm looking forward to about In Character are the debates we're sure to have about whether a particular character is really important. It'll also be interesting to hear about different interpretations of the same figure. Can't wait to hear yours."

Take a look if how many titles you've already read on this list : 1001 Books You Have to Read Before You Die.

Not those made by commenters on blogs. The latest greatest in advertising is the pay-for-recommendations approach, where a company will sell authors X number of recommendations of their book posted in blog comments around the Web by “people who speak English really well.” What next?

Well, we've seen blogs made into books, but I believe we have a new first: a blog made into a movie.

Well, Wordsy didn't make the finalist for online community, but everyone still has a chance to vote in the lit category:
* Pepys' Diary
* Avon Romance Blog
* Maud Newton
* Classical Bookworm
* Writer's Block
* Erik Hare
* Diary of a Heretic
* Bookgasm (Wooo! This was my nomination!)
* Neil Gaiman's journal
* McSweeney's

I've taken to blogging as a means of acting out suppressed emotions that could prove physically harmful if bottled up and I feel relatively sure, as this blogger, that no one will actually read my blog. I wonder if that is the reasoning behind some of the presidential candidates on either side. I just wish we had a female without a past as stinky as yesterdays's garbage and a male with a brain

Nominate your choice for Best Literature Blog. Blogs about books, writing, the publishing industry, classics, etc. would be at home in this category.

One of my favorite author blogs, because Edelman not only blogs about his own writing, but also includes very good writing on other books, as well as the occasional post about general topics like science fiction or politics.

Why do so many people write about their very private lives online? Edward Champion looks at why blog writers are so “emotionally autobiographical” and its effects on their writing careers.