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Where we link to and review websites of notable value.

I Can Digg it. Can you Digg it?

by Lindsey Anderson on June 27, 2008

Slowly but surely, The Back Page is becoming something more than just a web page with words on it. Well, we’d like to think that that’s not all it has been, but visually speaking, it didn’t start out as anything fancy.
We’ve been adding some interesting blogs to our blogroll and now have post categories, so […]

82 Writing Experiments, a Poetry Engine, and More

by Lindsey Anderson on June 20, 2008

Maybe you’re already inspired, and maybe you have other sources to cure writer’s block and turn out reams of delicious prose. If that’s true, then it’s totally awesome!
But have you yet taken the time to come up with a title - perhaps one of the most loathed parts of the entire writing process?
Maybe you already […]

Poetic Archives

by Jacqueline Johnson on May 30, 2008

Congratulations, you made it to Friday! And on Fridays, we share with you a website we frequent or something we’ve found recently while perusing the World Wide Web.
Do you love poetry, but haven’t found a decent website where you could simply absorb the art without loads of conspicuous advertisements? End your Google search for […]

The Power of Rhetoric

by Lindsey Anderson on May 19, 2008

” … I’ll tear you to pieces with my bare hands. Or vicious rhetoric.”
- Topher Grace in “Win a Date with Tad Hamilton”
Sometimes, those of us lacking the physical capabilities to destroy someone have to turn to something else. Words. Because we use them so well that we can silence an entire crowd. Because we […]

I found an author’s blog

by Jacqueline Johnson on May 16, 2008

Author, Illustrator, and Guerilla artist, Keri Smith blogs too! She doesn’t overwhelm her blog with tons of information. Instead, she provides small and innovative ways to inspire her blog readers with simple, creative tips. I didn’t know what guerilla art was until I read her site: “Guerilla art is a method of […]

Somebody else tells stories too!

by Edward Atkinson on May 9, 2008

Thanks to Jamie of How Not To Write, I stumbled across an innovative twist on story telling, done by Penguin Books, under the same name as Mind Sprocket’s tagline: We Tell Stories.
There’s a neat story told through a progressively unfolding Google map, an interactive fairy tale (neat!), and more.
This is one of the better executions […]

How to Track What You’re Listening to

by Lindsey Anderson on April 29, 2008

Obviously iTunes does a pretty good job of keeping track of how many times you’ve listened to this or that track. And they can even make music recommendations for you based on your purchases from their music store.
But last·fm not only tracks your most played songs, they offer you artist recommendations, concert dates, music videos, and a […]

The Writer’s Almanac

by Lindsey Anderson on April 13, 2008

The Writer’s Almanac
This site is neat. For example, I can find out today that it’s the birthday of the guy that invented Scrabble, Alfred M. Butts.
There is also a poem featured for the day.
Another cool daily site is Daily Poetry. They will send you a poem a day. This was a great way to discover […]

Edward the Rein-octo-con-monarch butterfly

by Edward Atkinson on April 3, 2008

This rocks. Build Your Wild Self is a website promoting New York Zoos.

I’ve never enjoyed wasting time on the web so much before!

Get Your Literature On

by Lindsey Anderson on March 29, 2008

www.literature.org/ is one of many sources for free books online. A simple Google search will return many results, but this is a site that I was drawn to because of its bare bones simplicity. Don’t get too excited - you won’t be able to get the latest New York Times bestseller here. But you can read, print, do […]

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