I am so excited to let you know that with the help of Jackie from Farm Lane Books, the Blog Improvement Project is going to continue this year!
We’ve created a dedicated blog for the project — thebip.wordpress.com — so please head over there for more information and to sign up if you’re interested.
Today I had the honor of guest posting over at the Women Unbound Challenge blog. I wrote about the book that helped open my eyes to what the feminist movement could mean and inspired me to rethink my own political ideologies on the topic. To find out what the book was, head on over to [...]
I’m behind with this, but it was too funny not to post. Last week SNL did a digital short mocking something I dislike, Twilight, using something I do like, Frankenstein. Hilarious! My only quibble is that the big green guy isn’t actually Frankenstein; Frankenstein is the scientist, the green guy is The Monster. Can we [...]
The “In Real Life” book club I’m a part of meet on Tuesday to talk about The Djinn in the Nightingale’s Eye by A.S. Byatt. The book is a collection a short fairy stories that we generally enjoyed, although we didn’t have a lot to say about it. I’ll have a review of the book [...]
So on Tuesday, the Federal Trade Commission voted to update it’s “Guides Concerning the Use of Endorsements and Testimonials in Advertising,” which now require that bloggers disclose connections to advertisers, including payments or free products. I put legislating in quotes in the title because I think, technically, the only group that can “legislate” is the [...]
I know we can get sort of burned out talking too much about book blogging so we don’t have time to read or write for our own blogs, but I have one more post to suggest on the topic. I just came across an interview with critic and blogger Mark Athitakis posted at Critical Mass [...]
One of my assignment for my magazine writing class this semester is to blog regularly over at Eat. Drink. Better., a member of Green Options Media that “invites readers to explore the environmental issues surrounding their food choices.” I’ll be blogging about healthy eating and nutrition specifically, with a side emphasis on books since that’s [...]
One of the things I miss most about my undergrad English classes is having people to sit down and talk about a book with. Blogging is great, but sometimes I just miss talking with a group of people. I might be in luck, however, because this year UW is trying a new campus common reading [...]
Yesterday morning I tweeted about an article from Problogger about a secret blogging alliance he stumbled across while interviewing one of the members. Basically, it’s a group of seven bloggers, all about the same size in their particular niche, that teleconference weekly and work together on all sorts of blog projects. Of the seven, five [...]
USA Today ran a recent article about how Gary Gaines, the coach of the Permian High School Panthers featured in Buzz Bissinger’s book Friday Nigh Lights, is returning to the high school in the fall to coach again at the age of 60. It’s no secret I’m a fan of Buzz Bissinger, and an even [...]
