Newsweek.com Starts Daily Editorial Initiative

Newsweek. May 26, 2005

WordCount Tracks Word Popularity

WordCount presents the 86,800 most frequently used English words, ranked in order of commonness. May 26, 2005

House Defies Bush on Stem Cells

In a somewhat surprising turn of events, the House of Representatives voted to approve a bill which would loosen current restriction on using federal funds for embryonic stem cell research. May 25, 2005

Blogs Don't Bubble Like Stocks and Housing

USA Today has a new article by Kevin Maney that compares blogs to a bubble: Heather Green at Blogspotting. May 25, 2005

Betting on Harry Potter Plot Twists

The BBC reports on the increase in betting about plot twists in the upcoming Harry Potter book, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince. May 25, 2005

Elmore Leonard on Dialogue

Elmore Leonard talked about dialogue and the use of the word said May 25, 2005

Sylvester Stallone and Edgar Allan Poe

Sylvester Stallone's latest movie project is about Gothic writer Edgar Allan Poe. Stallone plans to write and direct. May 25, 2005

Nuclear Showdown Averted: For Now

The Senate has reached a deal which averts a nuclear showdown over the filibuster: for now, anyway. May 24, 2005

Does RSS Threaten Websites?

Steve Rubel at Micropersuasion. May 24, 2005

Dolan Media Acquires Arizona News Service

Dolan Media Company has acquired Arizona News Service, a multimedia electronic and print publisher specializing in coverage of Arizona state government. May 24, 2005

Food Bloggers Unite to Write Book

Food bloggers are uniting to write a book. May 24, 2005

Association of American University Presses Furious at Google

Google's plans to digitize all the books in the libraries of Harvard, Stanford and the University of Michigan and make them available on the Web (while they sell ads next to the content) has caused quite a bit of consternation with the publishers and authors who hold the copyrights to those works. May 23, 2005

Harper Lee Makes Rare Appearance

Harper Lee, the 79 year-old author of To Kill a Mockingbird, has avoided the press for decades and has never written another book. May 23, 2005

Blogs Are The Thing

Rockford Register Star Executive Editor Linda Grist Cunningham has an interesting article about blogging. May 22, 2005

Website Lets AdSense Members Compare Data

A website called Ad Moolah aggregates AdWords data inputed by blog and website owners using the Google AdSense program. May 22, 2005

PubSub and Technorati Reach 10 Million Blog Mark

PubSub. May 22, 2005

The Top 100 Speeches of the 20th Century

Who has the "power of rhetorical eloquence" in America? That was the question addressed by Stephen E. May 22, 2005

Alan McElroy to Write Screenplay for Bonesaw

Platinum Studios, an entertainment company that controls an independent library of comic book characters, and The Shop Productions, a film production company specializing in computer-animation, have chosen Alan McElroy to write the screenplay for the $18 million budgeted CG theatrical horror feature, Bonesaw, based on the Platinum Studios graphic novel by Rob Moran. May 21, 2005

Writer's Bump Headed for Extinction

Writer's bumps are headed for extinction. May 21, 2005

Bush Vows Stem Cell Veto

Although he has never exercised the presidential veto, today President Bush vowed to veto new stem cell legislation that eases current restrictions. May 20, 2005

Frank Miller Defends Violence in Sin City

Comic book writer Frank Miller responded to criticism that his film, Sin City, is too violent and might promote violence in society. May 20, 2005

Poll Numbers Dropping for Bush and Congress

MSNBC reports on the latest NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll, and the numbers are not good news for either President Bush or Congress. May 19, 2005

Desecration Comes in Many Forms

Lee Smith has a very interesting article in Slate entitled "Quranic Etiquette: Why My Egyptian Doorman Ate My Homework" that explains all the things you can't do to the Koran. May 19, 2005

Around the World in 80 Dates

The is some interesting news in The Seattle Post-Intelligencer about Jennifer Cox, the author of Around the World in 80 Dates, which was a bestseller in Britain and has just been released in the U. May 19, 2005

Harper's Story Reveals Koran Flushing Incident

It looks like the allegations of Koran-flushing are nothing new. May 18, 2005