http://www.bloggercises.com/ Bloggercises en Wed, 01 Sep 2010 03:54:00 GMT Wed, 01 Sep 2010 03:54:00 GMT info@bloggercises.com info@bloggercises.com http://www.bloggercises.com/language-barrier/ Words, like numbers, can be twisted to suit the aims of the user. There was an interesting news item today about a British doctor who has developed an iPhone application... http://www.bloggercises.com/language-barrier/#comments http://www.bloggercises.com/language-barrier/ Wed, 01 Sep 2010 03:54:00 GMT http://www.bloggercises.com/astrological-doublecomplex/ My astrologer's advice to me the other day was not to over-complicate things. My advice to my astrologer is not to over-write things. Consider the following sentences. 1. With a... http://www.bloggercises.com/astrological-doublecomplex/#comments http://www.bloggercises.com/astrological-doublecomplex/ Wed, 23 Jun 2010 09:46:00 GMT http://www.bloggercises.com/eat-pray-love/ Caroline Overington is one of the brighter lights of Australian newspaper journalism. She contributes to radio and television, writes a blog and has published three books, including a novel. In... http://www.bloggercises.com/eat-pray-love/#comments http://www.bloggercises.com/eat-pray-love/ Fri, 23 Apr 2010 07:22:00 GMT http://www.bloggercises.com/novel-writing-tips-1/ Anyone can write a novel, and many dream of doing so for reasons other than profit and critical acclaim. For many it is like running a marathon -- something to... http://www.bloggercises.com/novel-writing-tips-1/#comments http://www.bloggercises.com/novel-writing-tips-1/ Sun, 11 Apr 2010 00:36:00 GMT http://www.bloggercises.com/no-ordinary-title-wins-this-book-prize/ For all those who have been frustrated for years by the lack of a scholarly and definitive book about the relationship between crocheting and hyperbolic planes, your wait is over... http://www.bloggercises.com/no-ordinary-title-wins-this-book-prize/#comments http://www.bloggercises.com/no-ordinary-title-wins-this-book-prize/ Mon, 05 Apr 2010 05:17:00 GMT http://www.bloggercises.com/crafternoon/ They may be aware, where craftspeople gather, of this word, and they may indeed have been using it for generations. Or it may have been invented by the marketing types... http://www.bloggercises.com/crafternoon/#comments http://www.bloggercises.com/crafternoon/ Thu, 01 Apr 2010 05:11:00 GMT http://www.bloggercises.com/happy-milestone-to-orble/ Who would have thought it, way back in the middle of last decade, that little Orble, the newcomer on the blogging block, would grow into such a strapping internet presence... http://www.bloggercises.com/happy-milestone-to-orble/#comments http://www.bloggercises.com/happy-milestone-to-orble/ Sat, 27 Mar 2010 01:07:00 GMT http://www.bloggercises.com/homer-simpson-doh/ Let us give you two answers to the question in the headline: the academic answer and the fun answer. The study of the origin of words is called etymology. The... http://www.bloggercises.com/homer-simpson-doh/#comments http://www.bloggercises.com/homer-simpson-doh/ Fri, 26 Mar 2010 01:56:00 GMT http://www.bloggercises.com/blog-comments/ As Orble races toward the 10,000 member blog landmark, we are seeing some interesting new blogs. It's an exciting thing to create a blog, especially if it's your first blog... http://www.bloggercises.com/blog-comments/#comments http://www.bloggercises.com/blog-comments/ Sat, 20 Mar 2010 06:17:00 GMT http://www.bloggercises.com/facebook-number-one/ Facebook is the new king of the internet. It has marched into the palace of Google and thrown the incumbent from his throne. Bow down, Google, Facebook now gets more... http://www.bloggercises.com/facebook-number-one/#comments http://www.bloggercises.com/facebook-number-one/ Thu, 18 Mar 2010 06:14:00 GMT http://www.bloggercises.com/future-of-blogging/2/ The assertions being seen regularly in Bloggercises posts that blogging will take over the world are yet to elicit a response from MI5, the CIA, Mossad or the Taliban, which... http://www.bloggercises.com/future-of-blogging/2/#comments http://www.bloggercises.com/future-of-blogging/2/ Sat, 13 Mar 2010 23:56:00 GMT http://www.bloggercises.com/blogger-sued-for-defamation/ Some time ago I developed a theory, which has so far built a dedicated following of one, that blogging will take over the world. Now, it seems, the legal system... http://www.bloggercises.com/blogger-sued-for-defamation/#comments http://www.bloggercises.com/blogger-sued-for-defamation/ Tue, 09 Mar 2010 18:42:00 GMT http://www.bloggercises.com/facebook-fast-company-most-innovative/ Facebook is the most innovative tech company on Earth, according to an annual review of corporate imagination by Fast Company magazine. The full list of 50 corporate innovators can be... http://www.bloggercises.com/facebook-fast-company-most-innovative/#comments http://www.bloggercises.com/facebook-fast-company-most-innovative/ Wed, 24 Feb 2010 02:20:00 GMT http://www.bloggercises.com/real-vampires/ Emmet Spain, a 29-year-old Australian who has just successfully negotiated the obstacle course which leads to the publication of a first novel, may have ended, once and for all, the... http://www.bloggercises.com/real-vampires/#comments http://www.bloggercises.com/real-vampires/ Thu, 11 Feb 2010 05:39:00 GMT http://www.bloggercises.com/cliches-2/ We have in the past advised novice writers against using cliches. There no known excuse to use a cliche, we said. There is no imaginable circumstance in the occupied universe... http://www.bloggercises.com/cliches-2/#comments http://www.bloggercises.com/cliches-2/ Mon, 01 Feb 2010 05:17:00 GMT