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Guessing Game: Movie Edition

Illustrator Paul Rogers has a series of sketches based on well known movies. If you think you know your movies, then eyeball six sketches from each film, presented in order and without star actor’s faces, and see if you can name it. I was pleased to recognize “39 Steps,” but I most of these I’ve never seen.

10 Blogging Mistakes

Michael Hyatt writes about mistakes many people make on their blogs, like posting too much or too little, poor headlines, bad first paragraphs, and other stuff.

He also links to a free e-book called What Matters Now by Seth Godin and several others.

Turner Prize Goes to Beautiful Art

Is it beautiful or is carefully marketed? James Bowman writes: “To the shock, then, that the work should be unashamedly pretty we may add the shock that it should not be shocking as well as the additional and perhaps greatest shock of all, namely the suspicion that it is a bit of glorified interior decorating.”

Author Allegedly Abused by Border Police

Canadian Author Peter Watts apparently put the wrong foot forward with U.S. border police in Port Huron, Michigan, because while on his way home, he says he was punched, pepper-sprayed, kicked, and jailed for three hours. He is considering a lawsuit, and some are raising money for him.

Author David Nickle says Mr. Watts is “effectively going up against the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, and he needs the best legal help that he can get.”

Kirkus Reviews Also Folds

Nielsen Business Media, which is closing down Editor & Publisher magazine, is also stopping production of Kirkus Reviews, which was known for it’s honest, even blunt, book reviews. “There was no sense of any financial distress within the Kirkus brand,” the editor said.

Editor & Publisher Magazine Folds

Editor & Publisher, a magazine which has covered the newspaper industry for 125 years, is closing down this month. The editor, Greg Mitchell, says it wasn’t a complete surprised, but it kinda was.

Describing E&P, Mitchell states, “I don’t think there are too many trade publications that were as independent and critical as we are, and we made some people angry because of that. We were calling for more Web focus way before it was fashionable; we were critical of many moves the industry was making and not making . . .”