Journalism & Writing Resources

• Word-Detective The online version of The Word Detective, a very entertaining newspaper column answering readers' questions about words and language.

• Acronym Finder Acronym Finder is a great resource for finding out what acronyms and abbreviations stand for.

• SpellCheck.net Need an excellent online spell-check? I strongly recommend this one, although I sure don't use it for Dubya's Dayly Diary.

• The Cypher Agency This literary agency site is packed with useful information for would-be authors, including book proposal info, writer resources, manuscript formatting info, & more.

• WriteHumor.com This entertaining and informative site features tips for writers, articles on writing humor, humor columns, & articles on the writing life. It also features author interviews including an interview of moi.

• Media & Publishing Humor Page. To make it easier to find my media and publishing humor, I've created this media humor page.

• RobertNiles The goal of this fine site is to teach journalists where to find information online and how to understand it. But you needn't be a journalist to find this media and news portal useful.

• ChillingEffectsClearinghouse This excellent resource contains a searchable database of Cease and Desist orders and "background material and explanations of the law for people whose websites deal with topics such as Fan Fiction, Copyright, Domain Names and Trademarks, Anonymous Speech, and Defamation."

• Language Sites On The Internet Verbivorous sites for people in love with the English language, courtesy of language maven and author Richard Lederer.

• Satiric Quill This entertaining site uses "the writing life as ink for a satiric quill."

• YourDictionary.com A comprehensive language portal with more than 1800 dictionaries in more than 230 languages. It also has cool language tools, word games and puzzles, specialty dictionaries (law, medicine, finance, sports, sciences, and more), a word search engine, and just about anything else a word lover could ask for.

• Assignment Editor, Your Newsroom Home Page An excellent collection of news-related reference and search tools.

• Judy Vorfeld Office Support Services Judy Vorfeld, an excellent editor of business documents and Web text and a Web renovator, took me under her wing and was a tremendous help with my Web site redesign. In fact without her, MadKane.com wouldn't even have a Web site redesign. Be sure to click on her "Web Grammar" link.

• A Writer's Choice Literary Journal Writers' resources and directory plus fiction, poetry, and essays.

• Media Channel An outstanding source of media news and views.

• Jim Romenesko's MediaNews This is the definitive site for media junkies. If your day isn't complete unless you know exactly what the media is saying about itself, Jim Romenesko's Media Gossip will tell you where to go.

• Reporter's Desktop If you're a reporter, or just playing one on the Internet, this is the site to bookmark.

Journalists & Writers

• Loads of Odes Loads of Odes is a place for "real life poetry,where biographical and cynical rhyme and verse poems can be posted and read."

• David Lubar If you have kids, you're probably familiar with David Lubar, a young adult book author, humorist, and game designer. He's a very funny fellow, whom I met when we were both writing essays for AOL's daily humor feature.

• The Shifted Librarian You're liable to find just about anything on this "information maven's" weblog. And it's almost sure to make you smarter.

• Life's a Stitch: The Best of Contemporary Women's Humor A terrific, new Random House humor anthology, whose contributors include Wendy Wasserstein, Delia Ephron, Anna Quindlen, Kathy Najimy, Christine Lavin, Erma Bombeck, Julie Gold, Cathy Guisewite, Merrill Markoe, Patricia Volk, Signe Wilkinson, Jane Wagner, Judith Viorst, Fran Capo, Molly Ivins, Lynn Johnston, Julie Haslton, Roz Chast, and many other terrific writers, cartoonists, and singer/songwriters. I'm proud to say that one of my humor columns is in the book too.

• RE Author A huge number of categorized links related to books and authors.

• TheWebLogReview.com This "peer to peer review of weblogs" is a well-written and well-organized weblog review publication. If you have any interest in the weblog craze, this site is a "must read." And I'd say that even if it didn't give my Dubya's Dayly Diary an enthusiastic review.

• Rexanne's Homepage Rexanne has lots to say about parenting, holidays, and many other topics. So check out her "personal soapbox."

• Other Funny Humorists When I'm not writing humor or playing with my husband, I read the competition. Here are some entertaining humorists I think you'll enjoy.

• Dantes Cafe Dantes Cafe features humor, opinion, satire, philosophy, poetry, fiction and info for writers.

• Opinion-Pages An excellent, well-organized, and searchable resource that provides access to the most current editorials, opinions, commentaries and columnists from English newspapers and magazines on the Web.

• OpinioNet.com Recently named Political Site of the Day, OpinioNet provides conservative commentaries, polls, news, information and views on politics, culture, the environment, health and other issues.

• Robert Paul Reyes Opinion columnist for the Internet edition of the Fort Worth Star-Telegram.

• Jaeworld Moving poetry by Jae Malone plus art hand selected by Ms. Malone. She asks visitors to "slip for a moment into my world, into the place where my experience reaches out to yours and offers tea..." The site also includes a diverse link list and information about Jae Malone's freelance editing services.

• Clayton Davis Writer, Photographer, and Aviation Specialist.

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