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Best of the Web for Writers: Dec. 18

Published by Tom Colvin on December 18, 2007 09:52 am under 3-Miscellaneous Topics

As usual, I routinely scour blogs and websites, now up to over 140 of them, for the best, most useful items for writers. You can see them all at Tom’s Google Reader Shared Items. Here are just a few of the most interesting.

Teaching Kids To Write

Inspiration 8 is a software aimed primarily at students to help them visualize, organize and even write about things that they observe. If you wish to inspire your kids to write, take a look at this unusual software. Who knows? It might even inspire adult writers as well.

LifeHacker’s 2007 Guide to Freeware and WebApps

I love end-of-year lists, the best of this, the best of that. These lists offer up the very best from a full year’s worth of coverage. LifeHacker gives us each year its list of top free software, and this year’s version has just been posted. I’m personally pleased to see that in the software genres important to me, I seem to have tracked down myself these very same winners. This is a good list!

For Cell Phone Addicts: Jott

Web Worker Daily points us to a remarkable facility called Jott that allows us to use our cell phone to jot down reminders and notes as we race around through out life. Hard to believe, but Jott translates your spoken reminders and notes into written text, which is forwarded to one of several computer-based locations for your retrieval. The enthusiastic comments to the Web Worker posting suggess that this facility might be truly useful. CLICK HERE for the Jott homepage.

Ten Steps To A Better Home Office

Freelance Switch looks at the home office, which many of us writers also inhabit, and finds simple steps to make it more functional and productive. Its recommended 10 Things You Can Do To Improve Your Home Office Cheaply are simple to implement and may well improve your productivity. You may wish also to visit Dumb Little Man’s Tips for Life blog for his contributions to this discussion. This topic hits me right at home, as I’m right in the midst of rearranging my condo and its home office.

RightsAgent Aims To Protect Your Rights

About a week ago, we reported about a disturbing court decision that appears to strip writers of copyright protection they had taken for granted. This week KillerStartups alerts us to a new website that may offer a remedy, sharing its evaluation about why RightsAgent may be a killer app. Writers concerned about copyright protection would do well to follow developments at this new site, which you can visit HERE.