This Week in Links: 8/8/10 – 8/14/10

I subscribe to quite a few interesting RSS feeds in the book/writing niches. Perhaps you do as well, but in any case, I’d like to share my starred links from this week:

Sunday, August 8, 2010:

• SAfrica’s ANC Party Wants Tribunal for Journalists (NPR)

Monday, August 9, 2010:

• 60 Ways to Increase Your Influence Online (Copyblogger)
• Sold: Amityville Horror House (NPR)
• Who Are the Most Underrated Writers in America? (Publisher’s Weekly)
• The 100+ Followers Super Giveaway! (Roof Beam Reader) [Also: See my post about this giveaway here.]
• Objects Moved By Ghosts (Christ Brogan)
• A Dark Day, Remembered: 1/27/2010 (Roof Beam Reader)

Tuesday, August 10, 2010:

• 5 Reasons Why No One is Reading Your Email Newsletter (Copyblogger)
• PWxyz’s Most Underrated Writers [Follow up to original article published on 8/9/2010] (Publisher’s Weekly)
• Is Google About to Do Evil? And Why it Matters to Writers (About Freelance Writing)
• Can You Capitalize Nouns That Aren’t Proper? (Writer’s Digest: Questions & Quandaries)
• Sharpen Your Pencil (Chris Brogan)

Wednesday, August 11, 2010:

• Left Brain vs. Right Brain for Writers (Bad Language)

Thursday, August 12, 2010:

• Your Online presence Can’t Just Be a Gimmick (Or:Using Twitter Meaningfully While Unpublished) (Writer’s Digest: There Are No Rules)
• Cultural Studies: Crafting Fictional Personas With the Language of Facebook (NY Times: Books)

Friday, August 13, 2010:

• Who Are the Most Accurately-Rated Writers in America? (Publisher’s Weekly)

Saturday, August 14, 2010:

• Saturday, Uncensored! (#5) (Roof Beam Reader)