Loads of Celebrity and USEFUL blogs here

2008-09-30T11:15:00.001-07:00

While truth may be stranger than fiction, science fiction takes transports truth into tomorrow. Well, maybe the possibility of truth. Either way, we think you'll enjoy the following sci-fi blogs.

Biology in Science Fiction: Ever wonder if that sci-fi book is based upon reality? You might find your answers here, along with tons of inspiration for any writer who needs some interesting biological news and data.
Futurismic: Futurismic is a website for people interested in the future and the effects of science and technology on the present.
Gibberish: Gibberish is the unauthorized ramblings of science fiction and fantasy writer Jayme Lynn Blaschke.
MetaEfficient: Yeah, we know about all those other sites that feature new and almost improbable gadgets that are fodder for sci-fi inspiration, but this sit is green!
No Fear of the Future: "A nexus of speculative word and thought" that includes reviews, news, observations, and more.
Science Fiction Buzz: Want sci-fi news? Get it here, as The Science Fiction Buzz Blog carries everything news-worthy in the science fiction and fantasy arena.
Slouching Toward Bethlehem: Jess Nevins, author of the World Fantasy Award-nominated Encyclopedia of Fantastic Victoriana and The Pulp Magazine Holdings Directory, brings his strange thoughts to a blog.
SF Signal: JP Frantz and John DeNardo, among others, offer sci-fi news, reviews, and topics for thought and speculation for your perusal.
The Bookblogger: Interviews, legal tips, writing advice and more from the Science Fiction Book Club.
Velcro City Tourist Board: An "unkempt British library assistant" brings science fact and science fiction, cyberculture, art, technology, all sorts of other cool and weird stuff to the table along with the occasional essay or poem.

2008-09-30T11:14:00.001-07:00

Writers must read. That is a law and the following sites will help you abide by this rule without feeling too stifled.

A Practical Policy: This Weblog presents fictive satire and commentary on art, literature, and social change — including thoughts and observations on society, culture, politics, ideas, etc, along with progressive and revolutionary views and news.
Bookninja: Canadian literary site that has become a nexus for literary news and opinion. This site is connected to the Bookninja Magazine.
Chekhov's Mistress: More than a blog about "literary enthusiasms," this site is a friendly place for ongoing contributions from thoughtful voices. Watch for ongoing metamorphosis.
Emerging Writers Network: Members receive access to message boards, discussion groups, or to offers unavailable to nonmembers of the site. Nonmembers can enjoy the blog, information about contests, and links to other great literary sites.
JacketFlap: JacketFlap has become the world's largest and most comprehensive resource for information on the children's book industry. Even if this isn't your genre, you might check out the site anyway for some amusing, interesting, and informative writing news.
The Happy Booker: The Happy Booker covers readings and literary events with a smattering of book reviews, author visits, literary interviews and an occasional iPod playlist. Watch for guest bloggers, usually authors who have some interesting thoughts to impart.
The Written Nerd: This blogger works at an independent bookstore in New York City's SoHo neighborhood, and hopes to have a bookstore in Brooklyn some day. The passion for books is evident in plans about that future bookstore, interviews with authors, reviews, and much more.
Wet Asphalt: Wet Asphalt can be thought of as a magazine published like a blog. Some entries may point you to interesting information, and other entries consist of complete essays, articles, short stories or poetry. Yes, you can submit your work.
Words Without Borders Blog: Words Without Borders opens doors to international exchange through translation of the world’s best writing, selected and translated by a distinguished group of writers, translators, and publishing professionals and publishing and promoting these works (or excerpts) on the web. The blog keeps readers updated with information about this site and more.
Workshop: This website is for current and former students in Murray Farish's fiction workshops at Webster University. Snoop and enjoy!

2008-09-30T11:13:00.000-07:00

Traditional and citizen journalism meet, and the results are interesting. Who knows where the news media will go from here?

Bob Stepno's Other Journalism Weblog: This blog is where Stepno collects thoughts, notes and headlines about the changing world of "other" journalism (meaning Web journalism), including personal and community news reporting, especially online.
BuzzMachine: Jeff Jarvis, associate professor and director of the interactive journalism program the City University of New York’s new Graduate School of Journalism, blogs about media and news at Buzzmachine.com.
Columbia Journalism Review: Columbia Journalism Review’s mission is to encourage and stimulate excellence in journalism in the service of a free society. It is both a watchdog and a friend of the press in all its forms, from newspapers to magazines to radio, television, and the Web.
Common Sense Journalism: Doug Fisher, a longtime print and broadcast reporter/editor/producer and then AP news editor who now professes journalism at the University of South Carolina, brings his thoughts on journalism.
Innovation Journalism: David Nordfors leads the Innovation Journalism programs at Stanford and in Sweden, and coined the term in 2003.
Journalism Hope: "Seeking Hope for Journalism" with a focus on grassroots journalism.
Little Green Footballs: A blog devoted to exposing flawed ideology and faulty journalism.
Online Journalism Blog: The UK Press Gazette calls Paul Bradshaw, a Senior Lecturer in Online Journalism and Magazines at University of Central England in Birmingham (UK), "One of the UK's most influential journalism bloggers," and we agree.
Teaching Online Journalism: Mindy McAdams teaches university courses about online journalism and changes in the ways individuals use technologies for communication.
The Rural Blog: Rural issues, trends, events, ideas and journalism from and about rural America provides regular reading for hundreds of journalists who cover rural issues and need story ideas, sources, comparisons and inspiration. We like it for its refreshing point of view.

2008-09-30T11:12:00.002-07:00

We believe that truth is stranger than fiction, but fiction is harder to write. Therefore, we submit the following sites for your enjoyment and edification.

Advanced Fiction Writing Blog: Randy Ingermanson, an award-winning author of six novels and one non-fiction book, also publishes the world’s largest electronic magazine on the craft of writing fiction, the monthly Advanced Fiction Writing E-zine.
Carol Baldwin's Blog: Author of the new book, Teaching the Story: Fiction Writing in Middle School, shares her perspective on fiction writing with a focus for middle school teachers.
Fiction Scribe: A blog run by a freelance writer who shares weekly writing exercises and activities.
Fiction Writing - The Passionate Journey: Writing Coach Emily Hanlon shares her perspective on successful fiction writing.
Matt Bell on Fiction: Matt Bell has been nominated three times for the Pushcart Prize, and is the reviews editor for SmokeLong Quarterly. Read reviews, news, and observations from this published author.
Open Fiction [Blog]: The OpenFiction [ Blog ] is a companion site to the OpenFiction Project Courseware site, an opencourseware resource for instructors and students of creative writing.
Practicing Writing: Erika Dreifus is a prolific book reviewer and published essayist who provides writers with updates on writing and publishing opportunities. This blog provides a resource that complements The Practicing Writer Web site.
Sylvia's Historical Fiction Novel Blog: One writer's quest to write a historical fiction novel by December 2007.
Write Stuff: Find a "Fiction Friday," short story contests, daily writing tips and more at this blog.
Writing Fiction: Discussion on writing and publishing novels and short fiction written by Crawford Kilian, an author who has penned many books and articles.

2008-09-30T11:12:00.001-07:00

Whether you're writing ads for that new cereal or the ad copy for that new serial, the following sites will provide inspiration, insights, and more.

American Copywriter: A blog about "a podcast about advertising and otehr stuff people think about too much." Interesting tidbits and examples.
Content Writing & Copywriting Blog: Amrit Hallan writes a blog that is geared toward beginning copywriters. It's refreshing, as it isn't as cynical as some blogs (although we do enjoy cynicism - especially among copywriters!).
CopyBlogger: Copyblogger is all about helping you to attract traffic and links, gain subscribers, and to sell your services and wares.
Copywrite Ink.: Rich is an accredited business communicator and president of Copywrite, Ink., a writing services and strategic communication firm with experience on more than 1,000 accounts. The blog covers communication in advertising, marketing, and social media. We like his blog because it's great reading with a refreshing perspective.
CopywritersBlog: From the personal and inspirational, to the professional and technical, The Copywriters Blog aims to be the well-rounded "hangout" for copywriters, non-copywriters, marketers and business owners alike who wish to learn more about copywriting.
Copywriting Blog - Get It In Writing: Tips, observations and tools on copywriting, marketing and growing your business, written by a business that's in the business of helping people with copywriting.
Copywriting.com: Miguel Alvarez, a web entrepreneur from México, writes this strange and wonderful blog. Outside the blog, the entire site provides useful tools for any copywriter.
Michael Fortin: Copywriting tips, news, and ideas From Michel Fortin, a direct response copywriter and consultant for close to 20 years.
Red Hot Copywriting: Lorrie Morgan-Ferrero blogs about how to convert window shoppers into paying customers with killer copywriting tips.
The Copywriter Underground: Interesting take on life and copywriting by Tom Chandler. Not only does this guy live at the base of a 14,000' volcano, he has written copy and consulted on marketing issues for more than 20 years.
World Copywriting Blog: David Garfinkel's cutting-edge copywriting tips, tricks and tested techniques to "get you higher response, more sales and increased profits!"

2008-09-30T11:09:00.001-07:00

Should you have a blog? A blog could help boost your writing sales and help build a community around your perspectives. The following sites will help you learn how to write for a blog, but they also show you how to be more accessible, usable, and popular as you refine your site and build your community.

A List Apart: A List Apart explores the design, development, and meaning of web content, with a special focus on web standards and best practices. This is a must-read site for any Web writer, blogger, or content developer.
Blogging Daily Tips: Content is surely king, but great content might just get lost on the Internet if not supported by promotion, search engine optimization and the like. Blogging Daily Tips hopes to remedy those problems.
ClearBlogging: Well written and easy to comprehend, this site will help you refine your site, as you learn about tools that could help gain readership.
Matt Cutts: Gadgets, Google, SEO: This blog is written by a member of Google's Webspam team, and it covers more than Google. You'll find interesting tidbits that may fire your imagination as well as fire up your blog popularity.
Online Tips: A part time blogger who believes that anyone can and should blog. While the tips do focus on blog writing and SEO, you'll find other ideas here that could be possible fodder for writing ideas.
Performancing: How to tweak your content and blog construction so you can see more traffic.
ProBlogger: Darren Rowse has been blogging since 2002, and he shares his expertise on how to write moneymaking copy. As a cofounder of b5media, Rowse is also concerned about giving voice to those in our society who are marginalized.
ProBloggers Matrix: Blogging tips that are easy to understand and use.
Tips n Tricks: This site is another easy-to-understand blog, written for the masses. The best article is the 310+ Essential Readings, Tools, and Resources for Bloggers. Be sure to bookmark that page to find answers to all your blogging questions.

2008-09-30T11:06:00.000-07:00

The following sites will provide information, advice, and tools that will help you with your writing, yet without a particular focus on genre.

Plot Monkeys: Four female writers throw spaghetti on the wall to see if it sticks. No matter your genre, you can gain a different perspective on life from these ladies.
The Writing Life - All Kinds of Writing: Outside the cute cat entries, you can find many resources for writers, especially in the long list of links on the left side of the page. You'll also get guest bloggers, reviews, and insights into writing life in general.
Seth Godin: Beyond any genre, yet touching on them all with blog entries about creativity, content, publishing, marketing, and more. This is an extremely useful blog written by an edgy author.
A Writer's Edge: A writer's journal about English words, books and writing, with a techie touch. Write, write correctly, write anything!
Paperback Writer: Yes, the focus is on fiction, paperbacks, and novels...but the contest information, writing tips, and more are perfect for any writer.
PigPog: PigPog is all about being creative - anywhere - and sharing what you create with others. Whether this communication is created by art, craft, music, photography, or writing is up to you, but PigPog show you how to do it efficiently.
The Writing Show: A podcast where writing is the storyline. You can find author transcripts, advice for writers, and more at this site.
Angela Booth's Writing Blog: Angela Booth, veteran writer and author, provides a resource for freelance writers who write fiction, nonfiction and copy.
Whatever: Author John Scalzi is all over the place, literally. If he can do it, can you do it?
Writers Write: The blog that belongs to a site filled with writers' resources. If this blog doesn't satisfy you, visit their list of writing blogs in their blog network (list is located to the right of the blog on this linked page).

2008-09-30T11:04:00.001-07:00

James Urquhart's The Wisdom of Clouds :

Cloud Computing and Utility Computing for the
Enterprise and the Individual. James writes great
articles and has a regular can't miss links style
post summarizing much of what you need need
to know in cloud world.

2008-09-30T11:03:00.000-07:00

Cloud Computing Wiki:

A cloud computing wiki started by
participants of the cloud email list.

2008-09-30T11:02:00.000-07:00

Cloud Computing Portal:

A community edited database for making the vendor selection process easier.

2008-09-30T11:01:00.001-07:00

Cloud Computing Blogs & Resources.

An excellent and big list of cloud resources.

2008-09-30T11:00:00.000-07:00

Cloud Computing Email List:

An often lively email list discussing cloud computing.

2008-09-30T10:54:00.000-07:00

Economics Roundtable

One-stop shopping: A “meta-blog” that collects
the commentary of dozens of economist-bloggers
and fellow travelers.

2008-09-30T10:52:00.000-07:00

Freakonomics Blog

More of the delightfully unexpected from
the book’s authors (Steven Levitt and
Stephen Dubner), who’ve attracted a
whole new audience to microeconomics.

2008-09-30T10:50:00.000-07:00

Greg Mankiw’s Blog

Smart stuff from a Harvard macroeconomist
who was George W. Bush’s most respectable
economist.

2008-09-30T10:46:00.000-07:00

A Fistful of Euros

A dozen perceptive commentators make
this an excellent place to keep up
with European economics and politics.

2008-09-30T10:44:00.000-07:00

Brad DeLong’s Semi-Daily Journal

DeLong, a Berkeley prof who was a senior
Treasury offi cial in the Clinton
administration, is a fi ne liberal economist
with opinions about everything.

2008-09-30T04:04:00.000-07:00

Moby

Singer Moby updates his weblog
frequently.

2008-09-30T04:03:00.001-07:00

Victoria Bekham

Former Spice girl and wife
of soccer star David Beckham

2008-09-30T03:58:00.000-07:00

Paris Hilton

socialite
actress
'singer

2008-09-30T03:54:00.000-07:00

Pamela Anderson

Pam's blog is located on Friendster.
It was created for the tv show Stacked.

2008-09-30T03:53:00.000-07:00

Jackie Chan

Jackie Chan's messages include frequent
diary entries and photos from the actor
and martial art's star

2008-09-30T03:49:00.000-07:00

Britney Spears

Britney does not follow a bloggish style
but she does post on her homepage now
and then.

2008-09-30T03:47:00.000-07:00

Deepak Chopra

Time Magazine heralded Deepak Chopra
as one of the 100 heroes and icons of the
century, and credited him as "the poet-prophet
of alternative medicine." Entertainment Weekly
described Deepak Chopra as "Hollywood's man
of the moment, one of publishing's best-selling
and most prolific self-help authors."

2008-09-30T03:44:00.000-07:00

Bill Maher

Bill Maher is one of the most politically astute
comedians in America today. His unflinching
honesty and commitment to never pulling a punch
have garnered him the respect and admiration of
millions of fans. In 2003, Maher launched a new
show, "Real Time with Bill Maher," on HBO, a
network that's a perfect fit for his irreverent style.
The hour-long show airs live at 11:00PM on Friday nights.

2008-09-30T03:42:00.000-07:00

Anna Kournikova

Anna's journal is not frequently updated
but there are permanent links to the
entries.

2008-09-29T23:23:00.000-07:00

Abhinav Bindra

This is 2008 gold medalist in olympics. Check out his for
his views.

2008-09-29T23:19:00.000-07:00

Ram Gopal Varma

It is now the turn of ace director Ram Gopal Varma
to be bitten by the blog bug.
Blogging is fun, says Varma, who had sworn he would
never blog. "But blogging sounded like so much fun.
It sounded like a very naughty activity,"

2008-09-29T23:15:00.000-07:00

Shah Rukh

Yes, Shah Rukh's IPL team Kolkata Knight
riders has tied up with contest2win.com
to include gaming on their website. And
with this announcement comes another that
SRK will start blogging very soon.

SRK had always insisted that he did not
have to blog, as he was busy doing too many
things. But it looks like this was just another
avatar waiting to show itself.

2008-09-29T23:12:00.000-07:00

Amir Khan

Thats great that aamir has started blogging.
Also since he doesnt appear that much in media,
it would be agreat way to connect to his fans

2008-09-29T23:06:00.000-07:00

Amitabh Bachchan

Bollywood superstar who is also India’s
best known blogger, recently revealed some details about
traffic flowing through his blog.

Amitabh has been blogging at bigb.bigadda.com since April

this year and following is a summary of his blog stats:

Total Page Views since April: 11.5 million
Total Number of Unique Visitors since April: 1 million
Total Number of Unique Regular visitors since April: 2.5 million