(www.inkthinkerblog.com) — You know how you’re supposed to google your name periodically? Well, today I did, and I giggled. Click on the images to enlarge:
Any amusing results or sponsored searches on your name? Leave a comment.
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(www.inkthinkerblog.com) — The Immediate Influence Blog posted a list of 50 of the Most Powerful and Influential Women in Social Media, and I was delighted to see a few friends of mine among the ranks of the mighty. Women were nominated for inclusion via Twitter and the top 50 were based on Alexa ranks (though number of links in is included).
I thought it might be fun to see how Inkthinker measures up to some of the sites included as measured by Alexa rank, so here are a few friends and random sites from the top 50 ranked at about 2:45 p.m. ET , compared with Inkthinker’s rank of 653,030 and 162 links in at the same time (interesting how much variation between the list published on 10/13 and today — it happens!) :
You can see the whole list with the ranks at compliation time over at Immediate Influence. You can also leave a comment on the post suggesting additions.
Who’s your favorite woman in social media? Leave a link right here at Inkthinker.
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(www.inkthinkerblog.com) — A colleague on the DCPubs e-mail discussion list shared this amusing news item yesterday from a news article about a drive-by shooting in Detroit:
A bullet went through a home’s window on Detroit’s northwest side Sunday, striking a man several times while he was sitting on the couch.
You know those cartoon bullets that, if they miss their target, will spin in mid-air and redirect to make another attempt? I envision that when I read the sentence above. [continue reading…]
www.inkthinkerblog.com — Dear Kristen,
I was wondering if you could point me in the right direction. I really need to obtain a large grant to work on my screen play on homelessness. I also self-published a book (more about it on my blog), Fragrance, by Princene. Any suggestions will be greatly appreciated!
Princene
Sounds to me like you need to check out a director of grants for writers, or possibly grants for work to address the problem of homeless. I can’t help you with that second one, but here are some resources for finding writer grants.
(www.inkthinkerblog.com) — Blogging and Your Writing Career, with Michael Yessis of WorldHum and Jeff Sypeck, author of Becoming Charlemagne: Europe, Baghdad, and the Empires of A.D. 800.
<<< JEFF SYPECK >>>
Oftentime bloggers are just sharp amateurs who love their topic and love writing about it, who don’t consider themselves writers. There are blogs for every obsession, every interest, including publishing. You don’t have to have an editor or agent anymore to learn about the publishing industry — everything it’s just being given away online, says Jeff. And blogs are really a handy way to meet this core group of people who are itnerested in what you’re interested in.
“It’s a medium I find very, very freeing because you get to write pieces you would never write anywhere else or that get rejected,” says Jeff. “You don’t need a newspeg, which is really nice.” He wrote an article pointing out step-by-step to do the research to find out the inaccuracy of a Charlemagne quote, and it got linked by Wikipedia and now thousands of people find it. “You’re also free to roam and experiment and go off on some tangents that a lot of newspaper editors and magazine editors probably won’t be interested in. …You don’t have to dumb down these things when you’re writing online, either. You’re writing for an intelligent, general audience, but also for specialists.” [continue reading…]
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