Top-notch Weaver helps distract from weak writing
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Halfway through A.R.  Gurney&#39;s new play, &quot;Crazy Mary,&quot; a character asks: &quot;What is  this, Tennessee Williams?&quot;
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If the Dodgers starting rotation has an ace it&#39;s Jeff Weaver, and that was a good thing on Sunday. He got it together after a wobbly beginning, gave his teammates
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By Jennifer C. Yates, Associated Press  PITTSBURGH -- A few simple keystrokes soon may turn blather into books.
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FoTW Inability to follow a story by reason of anger, part 73
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Beware of pros slacking off with their stock picks.
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Predictions from a neural network could make characters' movements less jerky.
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As a reporter, I'm never sure when the muse will strike or an editor will call. That's why I send copious notes and drafts of stories to myself by e-mail. As long as I'm within range of a computer with an Internet connection, I know I'll be able to tweak the latest version or do a quick fact check.
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It's not just students who need to brush up on their writing.
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A little less conversation and a little more action
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Among my collected papers: a one-sentence rejection letter of my novel 'David Clopperfield.'
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Are you still immersed in daily drudgery that could be easily automated with simple coding? One book aims to show you how to break free.
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There are good spiders and less-good spiders.
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Over on the Rojo blog  Chris writes:  "Thanks very much to Steve Gillmor for alerting us to a bug in how we, and other aggregators, were parsing New York Times RSS feeds. In short, stories older than 7 days or so were linking to abstracts of the articles, not the full articles themselves. This is something we will fix. Steve speculated that perhaps the "Times doesn't want server-based aggregators such as Bloglines and Rojo to consistently allow permalink access beyond seven days." Fortunately we don't see any evidence of that and in fact believe NYT has done a great job in making their content available via RSS, particularly by including a specific "partner" parameter on the URL for RSS aggr ...
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Sometimes I write about topics that I find a little difficult to get my arms around.
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It's amazing how easy it is to get lazy and comfortable and accept things as they seem to be instead of trying to see them as they are. That's true, I'm sorry to say, even for someone like me who urges eternal vigilance and makes a living writing about financial fiascos.
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Keynote Kathy Sierra gives designers the antidote for apps that can't read faces, movement, tone or anything: Give users a way to express themselves. Plus: TV panel goes rogue. In Listening Post.
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Devised for minimum fuss and maximum tension, âTrigger Manâ is the little thriller that could.