Notebook

For writers, notebooks are where ideas come to life. This blog is a space for sharing our news and ideas with you.

  • “The average person consumes 100,500 words per day by reading or hearing, says Time. Amount has tripled since 1980.” (via @lexinyt)

    Tweeted on 14.09.10

  • “Excellent writing skills tend to correlate with the ability to think clearly about communication.” Well said, @kissane

    Tweeted on 01.09.10

  • Letters of Note

    Footnote

    “Letters of Note is an attempt to gather and sort fascinating letters, postcards, telegrams, faxes, and memos.” visit Letters of Note

  • A world without words

    Noted by Matt on 24.08.10

    Words words words

    Can you imagine a world without words? That’s what New York public radio station WNYC did in a recent edition of its Radiolab show. We checked out the podcast and accompanying video.

  • The language of design imperialism

    Footnote

    “Let’s stop hiding behind industry jargon. Let’s invent a new language that allows us to better think, talk and care about indigenous cultures and microcommunities before we try to retrofit them to our projects and our preconceptions.” via Design Observer

  • Three fun things to do with words this summer

    Noted by Emily on 23.08.10

    Words words words

    At Polon, we think writing should be fun. So we’ve collected some novel ideas for playing with words. We’ll be trying them out on our summer holidays.

  • An open letter to all of advertising and marketing

    Footnote

    “I don’t know if there’s been some terrible misunderstanding, where you get the idea that I’d really like the prospect of coming home from work and spending my valuable free time taking part in your stupid idea about sausages, or tea, or washing bloody powder, or pretty much anything else for that matter. But here’s the thing. I don’t.” via Sell! Sell!

  • ‘I wrote 2U B4’! British Library shows up textspeak as soooo 19th century

    Footnote

    “If u really r annoyed by the vocabulary of the text generation, then a new exhibition at the British Library should calm you down. It turns out they were doing it in the 19th century - only then they called it emblematic poetry, and it was considered terribly clever.” via guardian.co.uk

  • DailyLit

    Footnote

    “DailyLit sends books in installments via e-mail or RSS feed. It currently offers over 1000 classic and contemporary books available entirely for free or on a Pay-Per-Read basis” visit DailyLit

  • My word: trust

    Noted by Matt on 12.08.10

    Brand words , Good words , Words words words

    Profit. Interest. Loan. What word should sum up banking? For Adrian Oldman, Head of Marketing at Unity Trust Bank, the clue’s in the name. It’s all about trust.