The Copywriter Underground

• RT @FakeAPStylebook: Include plenty of rainbows and unicorns when writing your
  marketing plan. Everybody loves rainbows and unicorns. #
• Poll on my fly fishing blog, and I'd like your vote: Are you ready to buy eBooks? http://bit.ly/c0a47T #
• Here's your chance to save a poor, underused word from probable extinction: http://ow.ly/2uMMV #
• RT @CopywriterMaven: Next time your client asks why so much: RT @rymden: How to Invoice Like Picasso http://bit.ly/8YoxU4 (via @gridangie) #
• Finally, a cogent explanation: What is an EPub and what does it mean to the self-publisher? (Publishing Basics blog) http://ow.ly/2uhlW #
• My eyes are experiencing naughty tingling sensations – gorgeous, type-only book cover designs: http://ow.ly/2uaZ1 #
• Teaching another email marketing class this week using #mailchimp – my first choice for small businesses looking to integrate media channels #
• How to tell if you're being lied to on conference calls: (via Bad Language) http://ow.ly/2u772 #
• RT @CopywriterMaven: "Oh, the readability!" via @TheOnion – Nation Shudders At Large Block Of Uninterrupted Text http://t.co/CA1jGph #
• Campaign development in the digital era from Ad Age: Too Many Campaigns Still Ignore the Consumer: http://ow.ly/2so3z #
• Seriously good deal: RT @CopywriterMaven: Get 5 web optimization apps for only $25! http://t.co/jwMVj22 via @appsumo #
• Effective or bad idea? Using tongue-in-cheek humor to power fundraising: http://ow.ly/2ryPG #
• RT @TurnerInk: Laugh out loud stuff! RT @topleftdesign: Funny – 38 Photoshop Disasters http://bit.ly/9JMIHW via @TremulantDesign #
• Genghis Khan link broken (16 million men related to Khan). Let's try this one: http://bit.ly/cxgahv #
• 16 million of today's men descendants of Genghis Khan? (scroll halfway down) http://ow.ly/2roB0 #
• Funny, sadly accurate (sometimes): Why it takes six weeks to design a website http://bit.ly/9tkzXN ? @TurnerInk: #

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• Can't stop trying different text editors. Clearly, I'm a text editor slut. There's a series of posts in this, gotta be. #
• Any web developers want a job (w/benefits) in Cheyenne, WY? Sierra Trading Post hiring… http://ow.ly/2mhmY #
• Try it, you'll like it: "This Is Your Brain on Linux Desktop" http://ow.ly/2lZsL #

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• The word 'Grassroots" was coined today 98 years ago (good reason to explore new political meaning of term "astroturf") http://ow.ly/2lARB #
• Friday Funnies: The Apostrophe Abuse Blog (a pet peeve for a lot of us): http://ow.ly/2iWVA #

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• Good-bye Kindle? 7-inch, $150 Android tablet set to go on sale at… K-Mart: http://ow.ly/2hWvh #
• Famous writers' typewriters (including Ian Fleming's gold-plated Royal and Douglas Adams' Hermes, Twain, cummings) http://ow.ly/2hn7d #
• A collection of gorgeous WordPress-powered sites (stunning stuff – now if only they were all available as WP themes) http://ow.ly/2g7HS #
• After the Deadline spell, style, and grammar checker now available for WordPress, Firefox, TinyMCE, jQuery, and CKEditor http://ow.ly/2fVTO #
• A passive, badly written, error-laden pitch from a marketing company with "three decades" experience?? Let's hope the intern wrote it. #
• Underground Fav fiction writer (sci-fi) Walter Jon Williams writes about his first year as a "professional" writer (1979) http://ow.ly/2fD8j #

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• Rewriting Blagojevich (time for a copy makeover from Riverbox) http://bit.ly/aVEpCr #
• Gutsy Freelance Move of The Day: Fire Yourself… http://ow.ly/2d8bO #
• Fourth Law of Thermodynamics: Everything (kids, pets & appliances) gets sick on Friday night – when repair is impossible/most expensive #

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• Just posted a GoodReads review on a book which profiles a truly compelling human being: Dr. Rick Hodes: http://bit.ly/casLKJ #
• What kind of emotionally bankrupt client calls me right smack in the middle of Comfortably Numb? #
• When are browsers going to learn I'm clumsy and prone to rushing, so foo.cmo means foo.com… #
• #Wasteoftime = Printing and mailing invoices to an ad client who is unwilling to simply print a .pdf file… #
• Researching text markup languages for book-length work (reStructuredText, LaTex, etc). Thought-provoking stuff here: http://bit.ly/6tRxqh #
• Writer/editor Cory Doctorow lays out writing gear, throws a little love to Ubuntu Linux, programmer's editor… http://ow.ly/27b9e #
• I just used an exclamation point in copy. I must be exhausted. (Exhaustion and drug use only two excuses…) #

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• RT @CopywriterMaven: My latest landing page/site makeover @copyblogger Landing Page Makeover Clinic #27 HiddenSoy.com http://bit.ly/aniOvn #
• RT @SocialMedia411: Teens Experiencing Facebook Fatigue – STUDY (Mashable): http://bit.ly/bmmHOV [It's Classmates.com all over again] #
• HIlarious take on marketing and the nature of reality (The Secret Diary of Steve Jobs) http://ow.ly/24Uwm #
• General Motors acts like massive jerk with its ad agencies – fires two and lets them find out via the press (classy) http://ow.ly/23rHY #
• The client/agency relationship has changed, so why hasn't the client pitch changed with it? http://ow.ly/23j2W #
• What if the Gulf oil spill was centered on your home town? (Map superimposes spill on your part of the country) http://ow.ly/22Y2K #

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• 15 years of life as narrated by a pitch-perfect parrot (Nicely written post in the Heckled By Parrots blog) http://ow.ly/220uP #
• AOL buys Bebo social network for $850 million, sells it for $10M. Who said social media was a license to print money? http://tcrn.ch/9x6GCv #
• Hmmm… Client wants Japanese-language web pages to mirror his English site (WordPress). In this biz, it's something interesting every day. #
• Wondering what to do with those newspapers you don't read any more? Amazing Vividly Newspaper Sculptures: http://ow.ly/21R9j #
• E-Book reader price war erupts as ebook sales double (are ebooks *finally* going to deliver on all the hype?) http://ow.ly/21ro0 #

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• The New Post-Recessioin (almost) Marketing? Marketers Are Redefining Growth, Revisiting Emotional Messages to Connect: http://ow.ly/1ZVIv #
• Wondering why I wrote web copy on anything but a programmer's editor. Word processors are dumb… #
• Underground fav writer Carl Hiaasen takes aim at BP, regulators: http://ow.ly/1YGJo #
• Art Made From Spam: http://ow.ly/1XscE #
• "…there are certain types of people who get most of their pleasure from the way words are arranged" http://ow.ly/1Xsbi #
• Writing a new web/online project checklist for my online consulting biz. Online marketing's changed a lot since I last updated 18 months ago #

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• AOL bets heavy on original content, may hire 'hundreds' of journalists: http://ow.ly/1WRnT #
• RT @CopywriterMaven: Ahh, get paid occasionally … http://twitpic.com/1vl6l8 (Or, how to make others rich while you starve…) #
• First tweet ever from inside client meeting (client on phone). I'm looking too busy to work for less than full rate. #
• Google launches “Caffeine” – faster indexing infrastructure: http://ow.ly/1WhVM #
• RT @ProPublica: BP Refuses to Provide Oil Samples to Scientists Investigating Underwater Plumes http://bit.ly/aFJdqf #oilspill #
• Useful infographic: What is HTML5 and why should you care? http://ow.ly/1WhtF #
• The 50 Most Looked-Up Words on NYTimes.com: http://ow.ly/1Whpq #
• Four oil-spill questions scientists can’t answer | Grist http://ow.ly/1VkGh #
• Ad Age says the Generation Gap disappearing (I guess bad taste now knows no boundaries…) http://ow.ly/1UcNm #

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