I’m heading into this weekend boosted by exciting developments on a couple of manuscripts — one old, one new. One of my favorite editors wants to see the old one, and the new one no longer stinks — unlike some drafts I could mention. (I’m looking at you, version 1.1.)
This week, I’d hoped to catch up on a lot of set-aside reading, but so far have managed only to get to Cynsations’ interview with National Geographic Children’s Books editor Nancy Feresten and three recent issues of Children’s Writer. Still on my plate are:
- A pair of 7’s: the Seventh Carnival of Children’s Literature, at Wands and Worlds, and the Edge of the Forest #7
- Two issues of the SCBWI newsletter
- That Maurice Sendak interview on NPR. Technically, this is not reading, but it does involve sitting somewhat undisturbed, which makes it just as hard to get around to.
- The fine print about BlogBurst, which I’ve been invited to join
- A Day-Glo-related article from the journal Nature that Anne Bustard clued me in on: “Here we describe an internal light-filtering effect in the flowers of Mirabilis jalapa, in which the visible fluorescence emitted by one pigment, a yellow betaxanthin…”
My hunch is that the time I spend not sleeping during the sleepover that S is hosting tonight will give me time to catch up on lots of this, though that last one may be more than I’m up for.
Chris, do read that fine print very carefully. I took a look at it, which I always do, and it looks to me like they will claim all copyright on the materials you let them have. It is very, very easy to just revise people’s words a little bit under these circumstances and then lay copyright claim to that. It might mean that you cannot reuse your blog material later on your own website or for other publcity purposes of your own making.
What you always want to look for on any copyright statment like this is a CLEAR statement that all copyrights to your content belong to you whehter or nto posted on the site.
See the http://www.xanga.com copyright statements for a good example of this, where I blog. It is a major reason why I chose to use their free blog service.
I have found, from other sources on the Net, that exposure using tags on Del.icio and Technorati is a very, very good thing to do for publicity. They don’t claim the contents of your blog under their own copyright.
There are other sites like Feedster and Furl where you can register your blog for free, where they don’t claim copyright.
Your reviews are good, Chris. You may wnat to someday re-use and post those on your own webpage; hey, you might want to do a book of them someday, who knows? Anyway, check it all out! Best to you, Rinda
Chris, do read that fine print very carefully. I took a look at it, which I always do, and it looks to me like they will claim all copyright on the materials you let them have. It is very, very easy to just revise people’s words a little bit under these circumstances and then lay copyright claim to that. It might mean that you cannot reuse your blog material later on your own website or for other publcity purposes of your own making.
What you always want to look for on any copyright statment like this is a CLEAR statement that all copyrights to your content belong to you whehter or nto posted on the site.
See the http://www.xanga.com copyright statements for a good example of this, where I blog. It is a major reason why I chose to use their free blog service.
I have found, from other sources on the Net, that exposure using tags on Del.icio and Technorati is a very, very good thing to do for publicity. They don’t claim the contents of your blog under their own copyright.
There are other sites like Feedster and Furl where you can register your blog for free, where they don’t claim copyright.
Your reviews are good, Chris. You may wnat to someday re-use and post those on your own webpage; hey, you might want to do a book of them someday, who knows? Anyway, check it all out! Best to you, Rinda
Chris, do read that fine print very carefully. I took a look at it, which I always do, and it looks to me like they will claim all copyright on the materials you let them have. It is very, very easy to just revise people’s words a little bit under these circumstances and then lay copyright claim to that. It might mean that you cannot reuse your blog material later on your own website or for other publcity purposes of your own making.
What you always want to look for on any copyright statment like this is a CLEAR statement that all copyrights to your content belong to you whehter or nto posted on the site.
See the http://www.xanga.com copyright statements for a good example of this, where I blog. It is a major reason why I chose to use their free blog service.
I have found, from other sources on the Net, that exposure using tags on Del.icio and Technorati is a very, very good thing to do for publicity. They don’t claim the contents of your blog under their own copyright.
There are other sites like Feedster and Furl where you can register your blog for free, where they don’t claim copyright.
Your reviews are good, Chris. You may wnat to someday re-use and post those on your own webpage; hey, you might want to do a book of them someday, who knows? Anyway, check it all out! Best to you, Rinda