After weeks of travelling and tending to pressing matters upon my return home, I finally found some time for browsing — and I’ve come up with some useful tidbits for writers.
55 Top Reference Websites — I’ve bookmarked this most helpful directory at eBizMBA. It was written for university students now that research paper time is looming, but the list will be very helpful to writers of all stripes, even fiction writers who might need to check some facts.
The Water Cooler Forum — Most writers I know have never discovered online forums, one of the internet’s most useful facilities. Forums allow like-minded people, writers for example, to pose topics for discussion, with all forum members free to toss in their ideas.
Absolute Write, one of the best email newsletters for writers, also maintains a vast online forum, The Water Cooler, with separate sections for different genres, types of writing, almost every subject you can think of for the active writer. While I’ve been a newsletter subscriber for quite some time, I’ve only now joined the forum. To my utter surprise, there’s even a section for people who write HISTORY — I’ve been searching for such a place for months. The Water Cooler, as the overall forum is called, is certainly WORTH A LOOK. If you are new to forums, read the particularly helpful Newbies Guide.
10 Forums to Make You a Better Blogger — Speaking of forums, here’s a list of 10 of them dedicated to blogging. If you are new to blogging, or even an old hand looking to increase traffic, these forums may be very helpful to you. Just posted today, this blog post apparently received so much attention on Digg that the server went down for awhile. Keep trying to get it — it’s worth the effort as no one else, to my knowledge, has ever gathered such a list.
Adrive — Announced only today is the beta release of a new online backup facility that may well shake of the internet. This startup is offering 50 gigs of free online space to back up your files. If this company thrives, it will be particularly useful to photo-journalists, but even we wordsmiths, particularly the long-winded ones, may find this facility useful. Of course, it’s very early in the day for this start-up — I’ll keep my eye on it. In the meantime, my favorite is Mozy, with 2 gigs of free space — just search through the website to find the little MozyHome Free sign up box.
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Jeremy Osborne
21 Oct 2007
Definitely going to try out Adrive. My current favorite is http://box.net for backups. If Adrive is easier to use (it will be difficult to beat box.net), I might have to switch. Yay competition!