Chris Nicholson's Writing Weblog
September 26, 2006 • Tuesday
The new issue of Newsweek includes an intriguing profile on photographer Annie Leibovitz.
"Through Her Lens" focuses primarily on Leibovitz' new book, A Photographer's Life: 1990-2005. Included with the online version is a must-see gallery that includes some of her most famous celebrity portraits, personal photos and work from her 1993 trip to Sarajevo.
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September 04, 2006 • Monday
Last week Google began offering free downloads of PDFs of books in the public domain. Examples include Hamlet, Inferno and Uncle Tom's Cabin. Copyright activists are miffed because many don't understand the meaning of "public domain," which are works old enough for their copyright protections to have expired.
In other Google news, don't google anything anymore. The search-engine company doesn't want you using their name as a verb. Apparently they think people use the verb "google" to indicate searching the Internet with any generic search tool; in fact, everyone I know uses the term to mean using Google.com. Besides, good luck telling an entire culture how to speak.
Finally, Factiva has calculated how often the press uses certain cliches. "At the end of the day" wins for Most Overused. Second place goes to "in the black," third to "in the red." For more info, see the graphic at mediabistro.com.
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