Showing posts with label language blogs. Show all posts
Showing posts with label language blogs. Show all posts

Friday roundup: watching me watching you

Posted by JD (The Engine Room) on Friday, 28 November 2008
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The Engine Room may only be the 118th best language blog out there, but it's the 53rd most clipped Blogspot blog - at least according to UKNetMonitor.

Who is it that has such an interest in what I write? Perhaps the London Lite, thelondonpaper and Metro are planning their revenge...

In other news, The Engine Room has been chosen as one of blogs.com's '10 Great Blogs about Grammar, Writing & Language'.

Most of the others blogs in this list are already in my blogroll but two new ones on me are Talk Wordy to Me, by a young* copy editor on a US paper, and Regret the Error, which "reports on media corrections, retractions, apologies, clarifications and trends regarding accuracy and honesty in the press".

Actually, I'm going to add both of these to the blogroll.



*By which I mean younger than me, of course.

Friday roundup: LexioPhiles and Journalism.me

Posted by JD (The Engine Room) on Friday, 22 August 2008
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A few things in this week's roundup:

According to LexioPhiles, the Engine Room is the 118th best language blog out there. Unfortunately we didn't manage to break into the top 100, but it's nice to see some of my favourite blogs doing so, including:


However, apart from The Engine Room, there aren't many blogs by copy editors or sub editors in the LexioPhiles list. Scandalously, no Mighty Red Pen or Editrix!

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Another find I'm pleased with this week is Journalism.me, which aggregates feeds from dozens of journalism blogs (or perhaps it is more accurate to say blogs by journalists). The Engine Room is, happily, one of those blogs.

It might be good to do ('put together'?) an aggregation of sub editing (copy editing) blogs. What do you reckon? On second thoughts, I'm not sure I have the technical nouse – or the time. An idea for someone else to pick up, perhaps.