Way back in school, you were probably taught that contractions had no place in your essays and reports. School was to be for formal writing. You put two spaces after every period, you compiled a p
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Our first few posts are already up, and given that there are six of us that means you have a good hour of reading ahead of you. I've written so far about getting out of a crafting dry spell and about
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I didn't finish my novel last November, but I'm going to try very hard to finish one this November. (If you have no idea what I'm talking about, get thee to the National Novel Writing Month website, s
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Yesterday, in a fit of bluntness, I let loose on Twitter an idea I've been simmering for a long time. If you've disabled commenting on your blog, I'm gonna go ahead and say you're not a blogger.
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It's a busy heatwavy week over here. As the dog alternates between sleeping and panting and I sit very slowly wishing I could do the same (everything is done very slowly during a heatwave, see), I mar
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An unexpected and thoroughly delightful side effect of quitting my job last year is that right after I did it I managed to get know some incredibly cool people whose work I'd admired from afar for a l
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Over on the Booknet Canada blog, Morgan Cowie wrote about subscription models in online news and how they don't work in part because they stifle the sharing and conversation that make the Web go 'roun
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Once upon a time there was a woman who started a website in her basement. It wasn't a dank, dusty, musty basement like you might imagine. Her room in the basement was painted green. It had windows tha
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I've been thinking a lot about writing—about how much I want to be doing it, what I might do it about, whether someone somewhere might pay me to do it. Since the theme of this year is "It's no l
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Yesterday on Twitter, designer Vashti Braha started listing crocheters who use the service. She did so in response to Amie Hirtes' tweet wondering where all the crocheters are. Ah, yes. Where on earth
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