Recommended or Remarkable Sites

Publishing Technology

• Web Style Guide: Typography Basics.

• Library of Congress: The Center for the Book. The center was established to promote books, reading, libraries, and literacy. Serves as an advocate, a catalyst, and a source of ideas--both nationally and internationally.

• The American Printing History Association. An association that encourages the study of printing history and its related arts and skills, including calligraphy, typefounding, typography, papermaking, bookbinding, illustration, and publishing.

• Stop the Presses. The history of printing technology at the New York Times.

• U&lc: Upper and Lower Case Magazine. All about fonts.

• SHARP: Society for the History of Reading, Authorship, and Publishing. Links to everything you ever wanted to know about publishing.

Indexing

• Why hire an indexer? from Sheila Ryan. A good example of why computers can't do the indexing for you.

• What exactly is an index? from Martha Osgood. What is an index and what is its purpose?

• The process of indexing from Lucie Haskins. What choices do you have when you create an index?

• Frequently asked questions about indexing from the American Society of Indexing. General information about indexing.

• Classes and instruction in indexing from the American Society of Indexing. Where would you go to learn indexing?

• Find an indexer in the Pacific Northwest.

Help! I can't find it in the index!

Interesting Blogs

• words / myth / ampers & virgule from Dick Margulis: "occasional essays on working with words and pictures —writing, editing, typographic design, web design, and publishing— from the perspective of a guy who has been putting squiggly marks on paper for over four decades and on the computer monitor for over two decades"

• Editorial Inspirations from April Michelle Davis: "a place to explore grammar quirks as well as discuss the world of publishing"

• Sarah Cypher's blog for writers

• Gordon Wolff's blog about publishing, business, writing and other things

• Beyond the Elements of Style by Jeannette Cezanne of Customline Wordware: "the fascination of words and writing"

Language and Languages

• Word Play. From the interesting to the silly, this page links to many sites on the English language: lists of homonyms, antonyms, neologisms, idioms, and illogical phrases.

• The Word Detective will even answer your language questions by e-mail. By Evan Morris, the man who wrote The Booklover's Guide to the Internet.

• Foreign Service Institute. Free material for learning foreign languages.

• Language e-books. Links to other free material for learning foreign languages.

• The Word Wizard. Mailing lists, quotations, slang, and more...

• Wordsmyth English Dictionary and Thesaurus. The Educational Dictionary, by Robert Parks and the ARTFL Project at the University of Chicago.

• Language Unlimited. Learn survival Spanish; improve your accent in Spanish;
  help your employees learn Spanish; increase comprehension of English in the workplace.
  Classes and individual consulting by language acquisition expert Dr. Lynn Reer.

Fun Stuff

• Word Games from Merriam-Webster, dictionary publishers

• Word Games at the Gameroom from yourdictionary.com

Internet Research

• Librarians' Internet Index: Websites you can trust.

• WhatIs.com. Explanations of Internet terminology.

• Webopedia. An on-line searchable encyclopedia of computer terms.

• FOLDOC: Free On-Line Dictionary of Computing. Dictionary of computer terms, from the Imperial College in London.

• CMPNet TechWeb Encyclopedia. More than 20,000 IT terms defined.

Some of My Favorite Nonprofit Organizations

chart of world poverty

But there are many ways to give, including some that are free:

You can give food to a hungry person somewhere in the world just by clicking once, and you can do it once every day! At The Hunger Site, you click, corporate sponsors pay, and hungry people receive donated food. The Hunger Site was the first online activism site on the Web. To date more than 300 million visitors have given more than 500 million cups of staple food to people around the world.

Another way to give food to a hungry person is by contributing to the Heifer Project. Millions of people will be nourished by milk, eggs, and fresh vegetables through your donations that provide them with live animals that can improve their situation: a flock of ducks, a heifer, a sheep, a llama, a goat, a flock of geese, a trio of rabbits, a pig, a flock of chicks! And the recipients agree to share the offspring of gift animals with others in need, making them equal partners with Heifer in the fight to end world hunger. Great for gifts, and a wonderful teaching gift for children!

At the Free Rice website, you can give free rice to hungry people by playing a vocabulary game and increasing your wordpower. For each answer you get right, Free Rice donates 20 grains of rice to the United Nations World Food Plan to end hunger. According to the United Nations, about 25,000 people die each day from hunger or hunger-related causes, most of them children.

Some of My Favorite Shareware and Utility Programs

• IrfanView. Handy graphics-editing program; free and very easy to use.

• Stickies. Free program for creating little yellow notes that "stick" to your screen.

• TextPad from Helios Software. Highly capable, top-rated text editor: replacement for Notepad.

• Graphic Workshop. Manage your graphic images; batch-print graphic images.

• Macro Express. Macro Express, an independent macro program for Windows systems; speed up routine computer tasks.

• And then let's sneak in my favorite sports team here: Portland Trail Blazers Basketball

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