{"id":5199,"date":"2017-03-18T17:44:31","date_gmt":"2017-03-18T06:44:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michellecooper-writer.com\/blog\/?p=5199"},"modified":"2017-03-18T17:44:31","modified_gmt":"2017-03-18T06:44:31","slug":"miscellaneous-memoranda-15","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michellecooper-writer.com\/blog\/2017\/03\/miscellaneous-memoranda-15\/","title":{"rendered":"Miscellaneous Memoranda"},"content":{"rendered":"

– Here\u2019s a good article<\/a> by Anna Pitoniak, editor and debut author, on what her editing job has taught her about writing.<\/p>\n

– And here\u2019s an important lesson about the perils of ambiguous punctuation: \u2018Lack of an Oxford comma could cost company millions in overtime dispute\u2019<\/a>.<\/p>\n

– The Copyright Agency has funded research into teenagers\u2019 reading habits<\/a> and found that most Australian teenagers prefer to read print books rather than ebooks \u2013 although, worryingly, those who prefer ebooks tend to read \u2018free\u2019 (that is, pirated) versions.<\/p>\n

– Here are the some sheep and here are the no sheep – but where is the green sheep<\/a>? I loved this article<\/a> about Australia\u2019s quirky old maps, courtesy of the National Library\u2019s Trove collection. (Have a closer look at Tasmania in the second map. Poor Tasmanians.)<\/p>\n

– Still in Australia: \u2018Massive spider claims six seats for itself on busy Melbourne train\u2019<\/a>. The Victorian Premier, Daniel Andrews, has criticised the spider as being ‘that one passenger who puts their feet on the seat’. The situation is being blamed on passengers no longer reading paper newspapers and therefore being unable to put inconsiderate arachnid commuters in their place (on the floor).<\/p>\n

– That\u2019s not to say that people have stopped reading newspapers. They\u2019re simply switching to the digital versions, especially in the United States, with a huge surge in subscriptions to The New York Times<\/em>, The Washington Post<\/em> and other \u2018old fashioned\u2019 newspapers (\u2018How Donald Trump, President of the Twitterverse, gave ‘old media’ new lease of life\u2019<\/a>).<\/p>\n

– Finally, some sage observations from Wondermark on those social media commenters who are outraged by political correctness<\/a> (\u201cYou can\u2019t talk like you\u2019d normally talk, full of all the invective and slurs you\u2019d normally use, without the objects of that invective feeling belittled and dehumanized by it!\u201d). And anyone who\u2019s ever run a blog would recognise the Sea Lion<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

– Here\u2019s a good article by Anna Pitoniak, editor and debut author, on what her editing job has taught her about writing. – And here\u2019s an important lesson about the perils of ambiguous punctuation: \u2018Lack of an Oxford comma could cost company millions in overtime dispute\u2019. – The Copyright Agency has funded research into teenagers\u2019 … Continue reading Miscellaneous Memoranda<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5199","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-this-writing-life","category-young-adult"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michellecooper-writer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5199","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michellecooper-writer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michellecooper-writer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michellecooper-writer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michellecooper-writer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5199"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/michellecooper-writer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5199\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5201,"href":"https:\/\/michellecooper-writer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5199\/revisions\/5201"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michellecooper-writer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michellecooper-writer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michellecooper-writer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}