Mario Pofaca is a guy I met online ages ago when I did Newsies on the Web … he keeps a news site in Eastern Europe that links to stories around the world. The fact that he’s still at it…
Category: Cool tools
So many slurs
Found this link at the ACES discussion board: somebody’s collection of derogatory terms. The ACES discussion starts here.
For all you idiom savants
Here’s a great big dictionary of idioms. (link via infomaniac).
More journo-links
Michelle Nicolosi’s Insert Text Here has a ton of handy clicks. One reason Michelle is one of the coolest people on earth: she is perhaps the only person anywhere who has won a Pulitzer Prize and served as a CCI…
Getting Spanish into English
Infomaniac provides this useful link. Useful because, well, if you leave the little squiggle off the top of the letter n, “year” becomes “asshole.”
New links I happened upon
Gian Trotta’s list of online editing resources. Among the intriguing links: Sun Microsystems’ online style guide, which has tons of tips for Web writers and editors. Edit-Work, a site for online editors. The site hasn’t been updated in ages but…
Re: High Holy Days
Here’s a link.
Where the flacks flock
Here’s a blog for PR people. This one gets the link because, naturally, its owner linked to my site. And because, let’s face it, we’d be toast without PR people. Scroll down a ways and note some links to stories…
How to be a better copy editor
Here’s a whole page full of stuff. Nicole posted the pageful of headline tips.So which is it, pageful for page full? If you don’t care, what are you doing here?