Websites that changed the world

The Guardian Unlimited has celebrated the 15th anniversary of the World Wide Web with an article that also lists 15 Websites that changed the world. You'll probably disagree with many of the sites on the list, but the Web has indeed changed the world....

Will E-Publishing Become the New Leader?
Let the truth be told I am not a big supporter of e-books even though I wrote an entry earlier with regards to the advantages of them. Though I am not a fan, e-books are good for one thing, and that is establishing yourself as an expert.

The 2006 Webby Awards
It's a huge list, and no doubt you'd argue with many of the choices. Still, this year's Webby Awards are worth exploring especially on topics like "Best Copy/Writing" and "Corporate Communications."...

Sir Tim Starts Blogging
And about time, too: Sir Tim Berners-Lee, the man who changed our lives, has announced: So I have a blog. I think I can safely predict he'll enjoy very good traffic stats....

Blogging a Nameless War
The Tyee has published my article Blogging a Nameless War, about the Lebanese and Israeli online response to the war in Lebanon....

Taking a Holiday
I'm away on Wednesday, June 21 for a week in the Canadian Rockies. I won't have much access to a computer, so if you send me email I won't be able to answer (or post here) until the very end of June or the beginning of July. Hope your week will be as happy and surprising as mine will be. My wife and I find Jasper National Park an amazing...

A new edition of Writing for the Web
Yesterday I met with my editor at Self-Counsel Books and agreed to do new editions of my books Writing for the Web and Writing Science Fiction and Fantasy. The Web book is going to need the most revision in the six years since the last edition, webwriting has changed beyond recognition. So here's a question for you: What kinds of questions would you like the webwriting book to address especially issues that...

Handbook for Bloggers and Cyber-Dissidents
Via a member of the Canadian Association of Journalists, a very welcome gift from Reporters Without Borders: Handbook for Bloggers and Cyber-Dissidents. It's a PDF with excellent information on everything from starting a blog to evading censorship....

From Web 1.0 to Web 3.0?
Via the International Herald Tribune, a long and interesting article about where Sir Tim Berners-Lee wants the Web to go: A 'more revolutionary' Web. Excerpt: Just when the ideas behind "Web 2.0" are starting to enter into the mainstream, the mass of brains behind the World Wide Web is introducing pieces of what may end up being called Web 3.0. "Twenty years from now, we'll look back and say this...

How to Get Your Book Published: Windows Media Video
Find out how Arielle Ford has helped launch the careers and create bestselling books for Deepak Chopra; Jack Canfield and Mark Victor Hansen, Chicken Soup for the Soul series; Neale Donald Walsch, Conversations With God; Debbie Ford, The Dark Side of the Light Chasers; and Dean Ornish, Love and Survival and many, many other notable authors.

The coming of age of citizen media
The Guardian Unlimited has a wonderful article in its News blog on The coming of age of citizen media. It's about the online response of ordinary people to the tsunami that hit a year ago today, and how bloggers spontaneously created a worldwide network that saved some lives and changed many others. I wrote about the phenomenon at the time in these posts....

How to Get Your Book Published: Quicktime Video
Find out how Arielle Ford has helped launch the careers and create bestselling books for Deepak Chopra; Jack Canfield and Mark Victor Hansen, Chicken Soup for the Soul series; Neale Donald Walsch, Conversations With God; Debbie Ford, The Dark Side of the Light Chasers; and Dean Ornish, Love and Survival and many, many other notable authors.

Visit the Book Publicity Gallery to see Documents and Photos of Successful Book Publicity Tours and Information.
Visit this link for a whole gallery full of scans from the NY Times and Publisher's Weekly.

A New Model For Getting Rich Online
The Washington Post has an interesting story today: A New Model For Getting Rich Online describes people whose sites run ads and get enough traffic to earn serious income....

1-2-All Email Marketing by Active Campaign
One of the tools that a self-publishing author must have is good email marketing software. I highly recommend 1-2-All which was developed by Active Campaign.

Blogging is Publishing
I wish I could say that "blogging is publishing" was something that I came up with on my own, but that is not the case. However, I have been pondering on this phrase for a while and decided to write an entry on my thoughts.

Blogging in Science
Through my H5N1 blog I've come to know about Declan Butler, who writes for Nature magazine. He's now started Declan Butler, reporter, a blog about how scientists communicate on the Web. It's just getting started, but it should be a valuable resource to many bloggers....

Becoming a Book Blog
After weeks of work, the third edition of Writing for the Web is nearly completed. It's a far more extensive revision than I'd expected, but I'm pretty happy with the result. Not only is much of the print content changed, expanded, and updated, but the book will contain a CD with scores of links a kind of electronic index, with added links on relevant topics. In addition, this site will become...

Housecleaning
Going through some of the links here has been a chastening experience. Having paid little attention to my original blog for a year or more, many of the links are now cobweb sites, or they've moved. I'm going to clean out the dead sites and find more good sites dealing with effective writing on the Web. If you're running a site that ought to be here, or you know of...

Arielle Ford, Publicist biography
Arielle Ford has helped launch the careers and create bestselling books for Deepak Chopra; Jack Canfield and Mark Victor Hansen, Chicken Soup for the Soul series; Neale Donald Walsch, Conversations With God; Debbie Ford, The Dark Side of the Light Chasers; and Dean Ornish, Love and Survival and many, many other notable authors.