Michelle Vranizan Rafter's Best Blogs for Writers

Michelle Rafter ran a list of best blogs for writers on her blog, WordCount. Ignoring for a moment her inclusion of my blog, there's a great list of resources, from the mechanics of writing and editing to the freelance business and corporate writing. It's worth putting on your list.

Long Story of a Writers' Mag

No big epiphany here, but thought that people might find an AP article on Writers' Digest interesting, as it goes through the history of the publication.

Resource: UN DESA Statistics Databases

The UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs has been collecting data in such areas as social and economic concerns, climate change, international development, poverty and hunger, migration, and sustainable development for decades. Now DESA is making all these statistical databases available for free, in a searchable form, through a single web site. You can browse though information or do a keyword search.