brettoppegaard.com

Saturday, March 1, 2008

A response you don't want from an editor

This David Mitchell and Robert Webb comedy sketch illustrates the writer-editor tango, in a painfully comical way.

Posted by Brett Oppegaard at 9:02 PM

No comments:

Post a Comment

Newer Post Older Post Home
Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom)

Blog Archive

  • ►  2014 (1)
    • ►  April (1)
  • ►  2013 (1)
    • ►  January (1)
  • ►  2012 (12)
    • ►  November (2)
    • ►  October (3)
    • ►  June (2)
    • ►  May (1)
    • ►  April (1)
    • ►  March (1)
    • ►  January (2)
  • ►  2011 (9)
    • ►  October (1)
    • ►  July (1)
    • ►  May (2)
    • ►  April (1)
    • ►  March (2)
    • ►  February (1)
    • ►  January (1)
  • ►  2010 (53)
    • ►  December (2)
    • ►  November (6)
    • ►  October (7)
    • ►  September (6)
    • ►  August (2)
    • ►  July (5)
    • ►  June (8)
    • ►  May (1)
    • ►  April (2)
    • ►  March (4)
    • ►  February (5)
    • ►  January (5)
  • ►  2009 (68)
    • ►  December (1)
    • ►  November (4)
    • ►  October (1)
    • ►  September (2)
    • ►  August (7)
    • ►  July (12)
    • ►  June (15)
    • ►  May (3)
    • ►  April (4)
    • ►  March (2)
    • ►  February (8)
    • ►  January (9)
  • ▼  2008 (25)
    • ►  December (1)
    • ►  August (2)
    • ►  July (1)
    • ►  June (1)
    • ►  April (10)
    • ▼  March (3)
      • A new story form?
      • 23 great places to look for writing gigs
      • A response you don't want from an editor
    • ►  February (6)
    • ►  January (1)

Translate

Mobile research

  • MobileStorytelling.net

New Media

  • ADHO main
  • AEJ
  • Always On
  • Ars Electronica
  • Electronic Literature Organization
  • Issuu.com (online publishing)
  • Kevin Kelly blog
  • MIT Lab
  • Rhizome (Digital Museum)
  • RSA Animate
  • Scratch (MIT for kids)
  • Turbulence
  • We Make Money Not Art
  • Zinio (online publishing)

Texas Tech's TCR program

  • Dissertations
  • IRB Office of Research
  • Official TTU site
  • RaiderLink
  • eRaider
  • Ning
  • TCR blog

Tech Comm and Rhetoric journals

  • Bowling Green's list of Rhet and Writing journals
  • College English
  • IEEE
  • Journal of Business and Technical Comm
  • Journal of Technical Writing and Comm
  • Relevant Rhetoric Journal
  • Rhetoric Review
  • Technical Communication
  • Technical Communication Quarterly
  • Written Communication

Pedagogy

  • Academic Earth
  • American Assoc of Univ Profs
  • Cal Berkeley webcasts
  • Flat World Knowledge
  • iTunesU
  • MIT's OpenCourseWare
  • Notre Dame OpenCourseWare
  • NumberPhile
  • NY Times Knowledge Network
  • Open Courseware consortium
  • Stanford engineering open courses
  • TED-ED
  • Tufts OpenCourseWare
  • Visual Rhetoric at UT
  • Yale open courses

Funding

  • Comm grants
  • Community of Scholars database
  • Foundation Directory online
  • Grants.gov
  • Texas Tech grad scholarships
  • Texas Tech scholarships

Web tools

  • 12 Seconds
  • Academic Superstore
  • Alta Vista audio
  • Alta Vista images
  • Alta Vista video
  • Alternative to ... (software)
  • Apache Open Source software
  • BitStrips.com
  • Bookfinder (lowest priced books)
  • CastingWords (transcription)
  • Color Scheme Designer
  • Diigo
  • DimDim - online mtg space
  • Easy Bibliography (MLA)
  • Eyeplorer (graphical search)
  • Felix Transcripts
  • Find Sounds
  • Free conference calls
  • Google book search
  • Google earth
  • Google images
  • Google maps
  • Google scholar
  • Google Squared
  • Google video
  • HowJsay
  • Intelligent Edu
  • iPhone development tools
  • KickStarter (microfunding)
  • Mailbigfile.com
  • media converter
  • Media Fly podcast search
  • MPEG2 Streamclip (video converter)
  • My Stat Counter
  • Online stopwatch
  • Pipl (people finder)
  • Polaroid-o-nizer
  • Poll Everywhere
  • Process Library (what's running on your machine)
  • Script Ocean (Flash script)
  • Search EveryZing
  • Slide.com
  • Spokeo (search social networks)
  • Survey Monkey
  • Switch (convert sound files)
  • Transcription Institute
  • UStream
  • Viddler
  • Vyew (share desktop)
  • Who is (web page)?
  • Wolfram Alpha (knowledge engine)
  • Wordle
  • Yahoo audio
  • Yahoo images
  • Yahoo video
  • YouSendIt.com
  • YouTube
  • YouTube audio
  • YouTube Downloader

Make comics

  • BitStrips
  • ComicLife
  • ComicMaster
  • Make Beliefs
  • Manga Studio
  • Pixton
  • SuperLame

Tutorials

  • Gnomon Workshop (video)
  • Hot Scripts
  • Lynda.com
  • VideoCopilot

Popular Posts

  • How to pitch a story: Esquire magazine
    Found this video series from MediaBistro.com, dubbed Pitch Slam, that asks top editors how writers can break into their magazines. This one ...
  • Public art at Texas Tech University
    Texas Tech University's Spanish Renaissance-themed campus was described by James Michener as "the most beautiful west of the Missis...
  • Analysis of the Society of Professional Journalists' Code of Ethics
    Because my TwHistory idea seems to fit better under the guidelines of the second assignment in Dr. Rich Rice's Engl 5361 class (Theorie...
  • "The Perfect Thing" by Steven Levy; more iPod worship
    After reading " iPod and Philosophy ," edited by D.E. Wittkower, I was curious about other books on this topic of the iPod and the...
  • Pilot study on media in The Village at the Fort Vancouver National Historic Site
    Here is a summary of my pilot study findings, comparing media exposure (a mobile app, a brochure, or wayside signs only) in The Village at F...
  • A short poem about stuff
    This just sort of popped out of my mind today. Not sure what to do with it, so here it is: Caught iSought iBought iGot a lot iThoug...
  • Assignment ideas for English 5361
    Here are a few proposals: 1. An iterative progression, from Assignment No. 1 to No. 3, building a multimodal presentation that maybe starts ...
  • Digital or media literacy
    After looking over several models and definitions of digital / media literacy, including the overly complicated graphic above, it seems clea...
  • Advice about scholarly publishing via infographics
    Four professors in the Communication, Rhetoric & Digital Media program at N orth Carolina State University recently published on the pr...
  • Infographic: The evolution of the smartphone
    Students in my Com 101 class ran across this infographic; thought it might be worthwhile to share.

About Me

Brett Oppegaard
www.brettoppegaard.com
View my complete profile

Subscribe To

Posts
Atom
Posts
Comments
Atom
Comments

Followers

Traffic

Back to: brettoppegaard.com

  • brettoppegaard.com

Search This Blog

News

  • Arts & Letters Daily
  • Atlantic
  • BBC
  • Boston Review
  • Columbian
  • Crosscut
  • Daily Star (Egypt)
  • IHT (France)
  • Jerusalem Post
  • Kathimerini (Greece)
  • L.A. Times
  • London Telegraph
  • Mother Jones
  • National Geographic
  • National Review
  • Nature
  • New Republic
  • New York Times
  • New Yorker
  • Oregonian
  • Pravda (Russia)
  • Reason
  • Salon
  • Seattle PI
  • Seattle Times
  • Spiegel (Germany)
  • Sun Magazine
  • Tacoma News Tribune
  • Washington Post
  • Weekly Standard
  • Willamette Week
  • Wired
  • World full of newspapers

Public domain media

  • A-M Classical
  • A1 Free Sound Effects
  • Archive.org Prelinger video
  • Beemp3 (some PD here)
  • ClassicAudioBooks
  • Creative Commons
  • Critical Commons
  • Digi-Tales list
  • Flick (some PD here)
  • Free Music Archive
  • Free Music Archive
  • FreeCulture.org
  • Freefootage.com
  • Freeplaymusic.com
  • Freesound.org
  • iBiblio
  • International Music Score Library
  • Internet Archive
  • Jamendo (music)
  • Library of Congress
  • LOC folk songs lists
  • LOC PD music collections
  • Magnatune
  • Mayang textures
  • Mp3s
  • Mudcat Cafe (PD folk music)
  • MusOpen.org
  • Open Directory Project (music)
  • Open source audio
  • OurMedia.org
  • Partners in Rhyme
  • PD Info
  • Photo archive
  • Pictures
  • Public Domain 2Ten
  • Public Domain 4U
  • Public Domain comedy
  • Public Domain music
  • Sheet music
  • Soundjay
  • SoundSnap
  • Springer Images (science photos)
  • Ubu.com
  • Wiki sound list
  • Wikimedia Commons
  • Wikipedia - Public Domain list (lots here)
  • World Digital Library

General Research

  • a.aaaarg.org
  • Artcyclopedia
  • Arts Journal
  • Bartleby books
  • Bibliographies for comp and rhetoric
  • Big Think
  • Big Think
  • Biographies
  • BioMapping
  • Broadway database
  • Camas Library
  • Cartoonist index
  • Census Bureau
  • Copyrights
  • Critical Commons
  • Data.gov
  • Edutopia
  • Encarta
  • Encyclopedia
  • FactCheck
  • Fort Vancouver libraries
  • Government Printing Office
  • Guidestar
  • Guinness World Records
  • HelpAReporter.com
  • History database
  • How Stuff Works
  • Hulu (TV archive)
  • Internet Library
  • JStor (academic articles)
  • Law Library
  • Librarians' Index
  • Library of Congress
  • Mercury Theatre
  • Merriam-Webster Dictionary
  • Movie database
  • Multnomah County Library
  • New York Public Library photos
  • News Clips Archive
  • Newseum
  • NY Public Library
  • Online Museums
  • OpenLibrary
  • Patents and Trademarks
  • Philosophy Talk
  • Phrases, background of
  • Power Reporting
  • Profnet
  • Project Gutenberg
  • RefDesk
  • RhymeZone
  • Securities & Exchange Commission
  • Shakespeare resource
  • SmartHistory.org
  • Smoking Gun
  • Snopes.com
  • Switchboard
  • Ted.com
  • Top 500 Web sites
  • White House
  • World Surfer

Writing Jobs

  • Chronicle of Higher Ed
  • Columbia job bank
  • Craigslist - Portland
  • Craigslist - Seattle
  • Editor and Publisher
  • Elance.com
  • Free-Press jobs
  • Freelance Copywriting
  • Freelance jobs
  • Freelancewriting.com
  • Funds for Writers
  • Guru.com
  • Higheredjobs.com
  • Indeed.com
  • J-jobs
  • Journalism Next
  • Journalismjobs.com
  • Mac list
  • Media Bistro
  • Medical copywriting
  • PDX journos
  • pdxMindShare
  • PR in Portland
  • Sologig.com
  • Sunoasis
  • Worldwide Freelance
  • Writer's Center
  • Writers Weekly

Digital Journalism conferences

  • JournoPDX camp

Nonfiction

  • American Journalism Review
  • Columbia Journalism Review
  • Computer-Assisted Reporting
  • Digital Narrative
  • Entrepreneurial journalists
  • Features Editors
  • Investigative Reporters & Editors
  • Journalist's Guide
  • Journalistopia
  • Journalists and Authors
  • Journalists Toolbox
  • Knight Digital Media Center
  • National Writers Union
  • Poynter Institute
  • Publishing 2.0
  • Travel Writers Society
  • WriterL

Fiction

  • children's book council
  • children's pub supersite
  • children's publishers
  • Electronic Literature
  • fishtrap
  • kids magazines
  • literary arts oregon
  • northwest children's lit
  • pacific northwest writers
  • publishers marketplace
  • scbwi national
  • scbwi oregon
  • scbwi washington
  • smartwriters.com
  • willamette writers
  • wordstock
  • writer's digest
  • writing world

The Big Five

  • HarperCollins
  • Penguin
  • Random House
  • Scholastic
  • Simon & Schuster

Other publishers

  • author yellow pages
  • bookwire.com
  • children's publishers
  • northwest publishers
  • pacific northwest booksellers
  • publishers home pages
  • publishers lunch
  • publishers weekly
  • small press center
  • writers market

PNW writers you should know

  • Sherman Alexie
  • Timothy Egan
  • Melissa Hart
  • Tom Robbins
  • Ann Rule
  • Jean Auel
  • Karen Kingsbury
  • Chuck Palahniuk
  • Ursula K. Le Guin
  • William Dietrich
  • Pamela Smith Hill

Mags that pay $1+ a word (source: nwu.org)

  • Access
  • Acura Driver
  • Ad Week
  • American Baby
  • American Benefactor
  • American Health for Women
  • American Way
  • Animals
  • Astronomy
  • Atlantic Monthly
  • Attach
  • Audobon
  • Automobile Magazine
  • AV Video
  • Beauty
  • Better Homes and Gardens
  • Biography
  • BioMedNet Magazine
  • Blender
  • Boating Magazine
  • BP Style
  • Bride's
  • Business Week
  • Car and Driver
  • Chicago Reader
  • Child
  • Cigar Aficionado
  • CIO
  • CIO Insight
  • CNET.com
  • Computer Shopper
  • Computer World
  • Conde Nast Sports for Women
  • Conde Nast Traveler
  • Contact Professional
  • Cooking Light
  • Correspondent
  • Cosmopolitan
  • Country Home
  • Cruise
  • Delta Sky
  • Details
  • Double Take
  • E-Securities
  • Earth
  • ECFO
  • ECompany Now
  • Electronic Business
  • Electronic Design
  • Electronic News
  • Endless Vacation
  • Environmental Science Technology
  • Esquire
  • Family Fun
  • Fast Company
  • Fitness
  • Food & Wine
  • For Him Magazine UK
  • Forbes FYI
  • Fortune Technology Buyers Guide
  • From House to House
  • Future Banker
  • Gentlemen's Quarterly
  • Glamour
  • Golf & Travel
  • Golf for Women
  • Good Housekeeping
  • GQ
  • Harper's
  • Healthshop.com
  • Hemisphere
  • HMS Beagle.com
  • House Beautiful
  • In Touch
  • Inc.
  • Individual Investor
  • Industrial Physicist
  • Info World
  • Institutional Investor
  • Integrated Design
  • Intelligence Report
  • Interior Design
  • Interior World
  • International Wildlife
  • Internet World
  • Investment Dealers' Digest
  • Islands
  • Jane
  • Ladies Home Journal
  • Laser Focus World
  • Latina
  • Living
  • Living Fit
  • Management Update
  • Martha Stewart Living
  • McCall's
  • Medicine at Michigan
  • Men's Fitness
  • Men's Health
  • Metropolis
  • Metropolitan Home
  • Modern Maturity
  • Mother Jones
  • Ms.
  • Multichannel News
  • National Geographic
  • National Geographic Traveler
  • National Wildlife
  • New Age
  • New Woman
  • New York
  • New York Times Magazine
  • New Yorker
  • Next Magazine
  • NJ Medicine
  • Oracle
  • Out
  • Parade
  • Parents
  • PC
  • PC Week
  • PC World
  • Playboy
  • Popular Photo
  • POZ (Health, Life and HIV)
  • Preservation
  • Profit
  • React (Parade's Teen Magazine)
  • Readers Digest
  • Red Herring
  • Redbook
  • Ritz Carlton
  • Road and Track
  • Robb Report
  • Rolling Stone
  • Saveur
  • Science
  • Scientific American
  • Scientist
  • Seasons
  • Securities Industries News
  • Self
  • Seventeen
  • Shape
  • Shape Cooks
  • Shop on Line 123
  • Sierra
  • Silicon Alley Reporter
  • Sky
  • Small Business Computer
  • Smithsonian
  • Southwest Airlines Spirit Magazine
  • Spin
  • Sporting News
  • Stanford University Alumni Magazine
  • Storage Magazine
  • Sun Microsystems Electronic Journals
  • Technology Review
  • Teen
  • Tennis
  • Texas Monthly
  • The Web
  • Think Leadership
  • Town & Country
  • Travel and Leisure
  • Travel Holiday
  • Traveler
  • Twist
  • UC Irvine Journal
  • US News and World Report
  • Vanity Fair
  • Vogue
  • W
  • Wall Street Journal
  • WallStreetCity.com
  • West
  • Westways
  • Winmag.com
  • Wired
  • Woman's Day
  • Working at Home
  • Working Woman

back to: brettoppegaard.com

  • brettoppegaard.com
Awesome Inc. theme. Powered by Blogger.