New words from the OED and a new voice for the Library of Congress are just two interesting new finds for 2012.
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Posted in Talkin' Qwerty, The Reader's Life, The Writer's LifeNo comments yetby Sharon Ritchey don’t know if it’s possible to categorize awesomeness but somehow we try. In our land of plenty of everything we try to discern the good from the bad and great from the just o.k. Enter the top whatever list. It could be top 10, top 100, pick a number. I love these [...]
Feeding America sent me 40 meals worth of marketing. Multiply that by the thousands on their list and you get the idea of how many people they could have provided meals to. Non profits need to look at their fund raising efforts and consider how those at the receiving end view them.
The interrobang is a mark of punctuation created by advertising executive Martin Speckler in 1962 that combined the question mark and exclamation point into one symbol. It was quite the in mark to use through the 1960s and made it’s way onto a few qwerty keyboards as well as into the dictionary.
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Posted in How To Write, Talkin' Qwerty, The Reader's LifeNo comments yetBy Kathryn Brill July 6 2011 I’ve wanted to be a writer for as long as I can remember, but I’ve always been a little fuzzy on the details of making that happen. I always sort of assumed that there was a set path to becoming a writer, in the same way that there’s a [...]
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Posted in How To Write, Talkin' Qwerty, The Writer's LifeNo comments yetEvolutionary anthropologist Robin Dunbar theorizes that humans can only make 150 meaningful connections. This may explain why I’m adverse to “friending” and linking to to everyone who sends me a request.
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Posted in Content Development, Talkin' QwertyNo comments yetApril 28, 2011 Posted By Sharon Ritchey Fedex delivered a bottle of Veuve Clicquot Ponsardin champagne and a book to my office last Tuesday. And while I love champagne, it was the book I was most eager to open. A Smile Never Hurts, One Woman’s Story, by my client Pat Powers Rothacker has been close [...]
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Posted in Editing, Talkin' Qwerty, The Writer's Life1 commentApril 16, 2011 by Sharon J. Ritchey I won’t add my thoughts to the decline of newspaper readership. There are plenty of pundits who follow this issue more closely than I care. But I have to say that over the past six months I have started to pay more attention to my local newspapers, the [...]
It’s not often that I first take a book out of the library and then buy it. But this is the case with Priceless, The Myth of Fair Value and How to Take Advantage of It by William Poundstone. The premise is that people make decisions about what items and services cost, not always on value but on our internal feelings of fairness to us and what we value.
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Posted in Talkin' Qwerty, The Reader's LifeNo comments yetMarch 17, 2011 by Sharon Ritchey Everyone is Irish on St. Patty’s Day. That got me thinking about leprechauns and their true origin. These red-bearded gents are associated with gold, stylish green outfits, shoe making, four-leaf clovers, and rainbows. But as with all modern day mythical characters, there is a darker underbelly of creation. The [...]
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