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The Week In Tweets 22 Aug 2013 | 12:34 pm
The outdoor industry's most-read blogger (my guess) calls it quits. He was a staple on my RSS reader: http://t.co/Q7Xxn2qxVY -> 9 Extremely Odd Jobs Writers Had Before They Were Famous (Douglas Adams...
The $55 Wooden Pencil (or, The Eberhard Blackwing 602 Will Screw Up Your Superstitious Writing Life) 20 Aug 2013 | 12:20 am
Nothing creates value in a fetish item like scarcity, and when the item in question isn’t even being produced any more, then suddenly, you’ve got a $55 wood pencil (via the Blackwingpages.com site): ...
The Week In Tweets 15 Aug 2013 | 12:34 pm
Funny. Craig Ferguson explains how youth-oriented tunnel-vision marketing is killing us: http://t.co/rQJSD0Ocu2 -> Coffee drinkers kill themselves less? "Drink Caffeine Now (Or The Writer Gets It)" –...
Drink Caffeine Now (Or The Writer Gets It) 15 Aug 2013 | 01:52 am
Writers are known for their suicidal tendencies, so clearly, this next bit of news should prove pivotal to the Underground’s readers. It seems that coffee drinkers are far less likely to kill themsel...
Why The Best Writer’s Tablet Is An Ultrabook 2 Aug 2013 | 11:43 pm
As a group, writers are always on the search for the next cool writing tool, so when Matthew Stibbe of Bad Language wonders if his iPhone or iPad can serve as useful tools for editing MS Word document...
The Week In Tweets 1 Aug 2013 | 12:34 pm
Screenwriter Ken Levine talks about "The comedy Rules-of-Threes" — which apply in copywriting too: http://t.co/FaI1TZtbfA -> The Brewery Map: http://t.co/Gaukci11qc ->
The Week In Tweets 25 Jul 2013 | 12:34 pm
Keyboard porn for writers | Bad Language http://t.co/mwqj6iqInp -> Star Trek mashed up with FX's Archer? (Proof you really can find anything on the Internet): http://t.co/QDdXuIPEll ->
The Week In Tweets 18 Jul 2013 | 12:34 pm
Celtx cloud-based screenwriting software (Edge) — now with the great taste of index cards http://t.co/LTkQi506pq -> RT @kjhealy: …were he alive today, Marx would waste all his time obsessively config...
Email, Search Generating Sales — While Social Generates Little But Hype 18 Jul 2013 | 12:55 am
A recent study by Custora (and reported here in Wired) tells us what a lot of social media “gurus” (or shamans, or champions, or rockstars, or…) would rather not hear. Social media doesn’t generate s...
The Week In Tweets 11 Jul 2013 | 12:35 pm
Client from Hell (too bad writers don't have "real" skill) http://t.co/zWhbflfYtd -> Internet Book Fetishists Versus Anti-Fetishists (The New Yorker) : http://t.co/zCwQ5MTwcZ -> Uber-comedy writer K...