Archive for March, 2008
Wednesday, March 26th, 2008
Billy the Blogging Poet will be opening up nominations for this years Poet Laureate of the Blogosphere on April 1, 2008!
Stop by his place for the rules and a list of past winners and sundry bits of information related to the high office in the blogosphere.
P.S. Billy also has ...
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Tuesday, March 25th, 2008
Members of the U.S. Navy Destroyer, USS Russell, have, with Commander approval, started a blog, The Destroyermen to chronicle the day-to-day life of the sailors on deployment.
In their words:
To deliver an authentic, unvarnished, informative and entertaining account of life aboard a U.S. Navy destroyer, report on ...
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Tuesday, March 25th, 2008
April is fast approaching and with that comes National Poetry Month. Some think it's good, some think it's bad. My opinion is one of semi-ambivalence (though if it works to get more people reading, it scores a few kudos).
With National Poetry Month come the annual NaPoWriMo. A poem a day...that's ...
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Monday, March 24th, 2008
Write to Done has an excellent post up on the subject of research: Research Sources for Writers: A Guide to Backing up Your Words.
I am particularly interested in the references and information on “Open Access” journals.
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Monday, March 24th, 2008
The date on the calendar say spring. But here in North Georgia I woke to 30 degrees and and a brisk wind. And it is supposed to be colder tomorrow! Though it's early, I believe, for the Dogwood's to blossom, there are bits of color showing through the grays and ...
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Friday, March 21st, 2008
For those of you who spend many hours filling out all those three-by-five index cards when doing any sort of research it's time for you to download Zotero. It's a Firefox add-on that allows you to cite your references on the fly from most websites in many cases, automatically (here ...
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Friday, March 21st, 2008
The best advice I've found of late for those frequent times when one is staring at a blank computer screen or the pristine white of a piece of paper.
Convince yourself that you are working in clay not marble, on paper not eternal bronze: let that first sentence be as stupid ...
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Wednesday, March 19th, 2008
This link was emailed to me this morning. Professor Pausch puts “life” into perspective (and manages to make those rejection slips seem not as important). Note the whole lecture is almost 90 minutes but worth the viewing.
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Tuesday, March 18th, 2008
At Hillcrest High School, students learn to share their perspectives on life through poetry:
Hillcrest High School freshman RaShun Barksdale’s words left his fellow students with a choice. They could choose how to play “The Game of Life.” That’s the title of a poem Barksdale wrote for his English class that ...
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Monday, March 17th, 2008
To see the Summer Sky
Is Poetry, though never in a Book it lie -
True Poems flee.
~Emily Dickinson
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