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Memidex - free online dictionary/thesaurus
Memidex is a free online dictionary and thesaurus with extensive cross-referencing, complete inflections, simple interface, and frequent updates. It's fast too. Use the Find box for exact matching or browse using the complete index.
Wikipedia:Citing Wikipedia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Wikipedia has a tool to generate citations for particular articles. For the cite tool, see Special:Cite, or follow the "Cite this article" link on the left of the page with the article you wish to cite.
Wordnik
Wordnik wants to be a place for all the words, and everything known about them.
Traditional dictionaries make you wait until they've found what they consider to be "enough" information about a word before they will show it to you. Wordnik knows you don't
Why The Wire is the best show on television. - By Jacob Weisberg - Slate Magazine
The Wire, which has just begun its fourth season on HBO, is surely the best TV show ever broadcast in America. This claim isn't based on my having seen all the possible rivals for the title, but on the premise that no other program has ever done anything
Mystery Man on Film: A Long Time Ago..
32 years ago today a little film called Star Wars was released in only 32 theaters. To celebrate, I thought I’d repost a favorite article from a couple of years ago for Ed Copeland’s Star Wars Blog-A-Thon.
Two great lessons about SW that I hold dear to t
Smashwords - Self-published ebooks from independent authors
Smashwords is a self-publishing platform and online bookstore for indepedent ebook authors, publishers and readers. We offer multi-format, DRM-free ebooks, ready for immediate sampling and purchase, and readable on any e-reading device.
At Smashwords, ou
Web Fiction Guide | free online novels, story collections, reviews
We list and review all sorts of free online novels, series, blogfic, and more.
Web fiction is original fiction that writers have chosen to publish on the web—sometimes instead of on paper, sometimes as well as on paper. As with anything, some of it’s gr
How the E-Book Will Change the Way We Read and Write - WSJ.com
Author Steven Johnson outlines a future with more books, more distractions -- and the end of reading alone
One Million Monkeys Typing: A Collaborative Writing Project
One Million Monkeys Typing is a community story-telling site. "An evolutionary writing site. Only the strongest stories survive."
manyvoices - home
@manyvoices was an ongoing collaborative story started by Mr. Mayo's 8th grade students in Maryland. The collaborative story was written by over 100 elementary and middle school students in six different countries using Twitter.com. Each student used the
The Anatomy of a Tweet: Twitter Gets a Style Guide - Bits Blog - NYTimes.com
The bulk of the book, titled “140 Characters, A Style Guide for the Short Form,” will revolve around eight key lessons from the Twitter universe, such as the importance of simplicity, honesty and humor. The project will also highlight notable figures wort
The 25 Basic Styles of Blogging ... And When To Use Each One - SlideShare
A compilation of 25 basic styles of blogging from award winning blogger and author of Personality Not Included, Rohit Bhargava. This presentation includes tips on how often to use each and potential to create buzz and blog traffic by using each.
Robert Burns’ Letters
The Robert Burns Letters seeks to recreate the letters of Robert Burns from November 1787 onwards by printing them on the days they were originally written by Robert Burns.
Collaborative Creative Writing Community - StoryMash
StoryMash, the future of collaborative fiction. A creative writing community for authors, amateur writers, readers and anyone interested in collaborative fiction and collaborative creative writing.
The Digital Narrative - Find your story
Digital Narrative introduces new ways of telling stories. Stories are our collective memory, they are a path to learning, a journey of expression; they remind us who we are and what we might be. The Digital Narrative offers a new medium for these themes,
The Evolution of Personal Publishing - ReadWriteWeb
The personal publishing market evolved from cumbersome web sites to online diaries called blogs to social networks and more recently to microblogs. Each form of personal publishing is different and each has its niche and audience. While social networks ha
Writing a Book in Google Docs
Currently, my editor Brian Jepson and I are collaboratively writing the book (tentatively titled) Google Office Hacks by O'Reilly using Google Docs. I wanted to outline the process we came up with, and maybe it's helpful for you too for certain needs.
word association
wordassociation.org began as an experiment by simon holliday at nameless, and has now become the world's largest database of word associations.
you can also play on your WAP-enabled phone at http://wap.wordassociation.org/
The Secrets of Storytelling: Why We Love a Good Yarn: Scientific American
# Storytelling is a human universal, and common themes appear in tales throughout history and all over the the world.
# These characteristics of stories, and our natural affinity toward them, reveal clues about our evolutionary history and the roots of em
WEbook Online Company
WEbook is about you and User Generated Books Let's face it: The traditional process for publishing a book is a lot like ivy-league school admission. Sooner or later, you'll find yourself brownnosing a guy with elbow patches. And then there's the endless w
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