Category Archives: Writing Machines

WordPress Plugins for Writers

Is a blog a writing machine? I have no idea, but I love the list of WordPress plug-ins in this post. I think the In Series plugin described below will be making an appearance on How Not to Write very soon!

WordPress Plugins for Writers:

Often times when writing about a topic in-depth it’s advisable to break it up for the reader. The way to do this before would be to create a page announcing the series and provide links to all the articles in the series. Well no more! The In Series WordPress Plugin makes this task seamless. The plugin adds an option to add it to a series, and the plugin generates the necessary connections between the content. It’s great, because it requires no hacking of your template–it works right out of the box!

[Thanks!: Siolon]

Ettore Sottsass, 1917-2007

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Ettore Sottsass, 1917-2007:

Designer Ettore Sottsass died yesterday, at 90. The leader of a group of Italian designers who called themselves Memphis, he helped spark the postmodern design revolution, which mixed pure modernism with color and pattern, historic references and unabashed pastiche.

But before Memphis, with its focus on objects for the home, Sottsass was known as a designer of technology. His little red typewriter for Olivetti is an icon in its own right, and he designed Olivetti’s elegant mainframe computer, the Elea 9003 (pictured here), back in 1959.

[Via: TED | TEDBlog]