Ah, sanity in a good argument for OER, CC, and even copyleft. Not sure I buy into the warrants (based a little too much on free market capitalist beliefs - although the argument points to sharing), but I'll grant them for the argument.

by Rachel Lovinger. Early piece on content strategy and thinking about difference between copy and content

Amber Simmons. A few elements for writing for learning

Distinction between copy and content.

Freelancers. Make xtra $$ at home on your spare time. Paper pirates are pricey. Let's keep it that way.

"The order of things in broadcast is "filter, then publish." The order in communities is "publish, then filter." If you go to a dinner party, you don't submit your potential comments to the hosts, so that they can tell you which ones are good enough to air before the group, but this is how broadcast works every day. Writers submit their stories in advance, to be edited or rejected before the public ever sees them. Participants in a community, by contrast, say what they have to say, and the good is sorted from the mediocre after the fact."

a response to Ted Genoways "The Death of Fiction?""We could buy books directly from authors whenever possible so that they're getting a more just cut. We need to re-conceptualize how we think about exchange and consumption. "

FLOSSManuals guide to planning and running a booksprint;.

A few anecdotes about publishers malingering in the pre-digital age. Inky hubris. Makes the alternative of print on demand look good. "Publisher friends, I tell you this because I am your friend; I value your contribution and I like you. I want to work with you. But this is an intervention. You need to look at writers and illustrators as partners and collaborators and treat them as such. It’s time to step up in a spirit of partnership, "

These bloggers don't see themselves as journalists and don't see themselves as having a 'role'.

Yet, their readerships rival those of many newspapers and they make their livings directly or indirectly from online publications.

Register takes a cynical slant on self-publishing, holding tightly to the professional niche: "Copyrights are for professionals, Creative Commons is for amateurs seeking a niche for unmarketable work."

Weblogs and Wiki: Pay Matt's site a visit.

Some techniques based on the characteristics of Twitter and email: spontaneity and impulsiveness.

Penguin publishers sponsors a wiki novel

Nice blog post about how hugh sees and sets his use permissions. See the work as social object rather than hoarded possession and you change the relationship between object and viewer, object and creator

wants to require those students, like others at West Virginia, to submit their writing projects electronically

A perenial, this time frm the N Yorker. Your bio in 6 words on a nametag, twitter, gravatar

Borders, in partnership with Lulu.com, has launched a comprehensive personal publishing platform.

When I write for school or for publication, I construct a faceless, mass audience. ... When writing for a market, the audience is already formed. Blogging audiences seem to work the other way around: you write in your own strange, crooked way, and then p

Shawn gets in close again and persuades me that MarsEdit is worth another look. Both a good review and a solid example of what approaching a review with a blog is about: closer than any other publication

from Problogger.net. A *very* extensive posting worth returning to.

A category and series on freelancing with a weblog, managing work using web2.0 tools and approaches.

RU Sirius starts with Clay Shirky on the spread of literacy, and a string of men (no women represented here) weigh in. The discussion's open.

What hits and what misses is going to depend on the rhetorical situation, but here's a short heuristic for getting started on making good chocies.

Witty intro for newbies and witty reminder for the cynical.

Good advice and exercises for freelancers. The number of comments suggest ProBlogger has a regular following.

Discipline.

These really are essential readings for practical bloggers: a workshop in a link list.

Mixing paper and screen. Everyone's gettng organized these days.

Outsource your network. Auntie Bee reports that social network ghosts can earn £1,000 a month.

Journal of lit at Virginia

m an English graduate. I like the physicality of books, the way you can annotate them, the way they start conversations or act as a currency among friends. But I feel deeply that the print industry is out of step with the contemporary cultural landscape,

a Great Experiment in collective authorship, overseen by editors, and written by invite.

most of her points focus on establishing a relationship with a reader - deciding on the role the writer wants the reader to play - and how to help the reader play that role.