Category Archives: Writing

Amazon’s Best-Selling Books of 2014

Posted on December 20, 2014 by DigitalPlato

‘With the year drawing to a close, everyone from Google to Apple has been posting of their best selling titles for 2014. Yesterday Amazon published their list. ‘Since this is a single combined list for both print and digital, there’s … Continue reading →

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Girl, 24, Beats Harry Potter Sales in One week

Posted on December 5, 2014 by DigitalPlato

Zoella: Zoe Sugg’s book Girl Online becomes fastest-selling debut novel ever ‘The first novel by YouTube sensation Zoe Sugg aka Zoella has become the biggest-selling debut ever. The novel, Girl Online, has become the fastest-selling book of 2014 after selling … Continue reading →

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Source of Great Writers: Real-life Private Eye

Posted on November 16, 2014 by DigitalPlato

Black Man Secretly Helped Great Crime Writers Ever noticed the character names Sam Spade and Philip Marlowe in crime fiction? The names Sam and Marlowe was a code for Samuel Marlowe who was a real black private detective and a … Continue reading →

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The First Online Animation Program

Posted on November 9, 2014 by DigitalPlato

In 1989, there was already a graphic design program before the Internet came into being. So it’s not surprising that it was also the first program animators used for designing and creating. ‘When we introduced CorelDRAW in 1989, we knew … Continue reading →

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How About a Fact-checking App for Articles?

Posted on October 21, 2014 by DigitalPlato

Some computers like IBM’s Watson can store millions of facts and that’s a fact. If Watson could do that, it’s so believable that it could also check if articles are factual and do not contain false ‘facts’. Free Journalism Ethics … Continue reading →

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The Four Psychological Functions of Great Literature

Posted on October 13, 2014 by DigitalPlato

‘The question of what reading does for the human soul is an eternal one and its answer largely ineffable, but this hasn’t stopped minds big and small from tussling with it — we have Kafka’s exquisite letter to his childhood … Continue reading →

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The Most Expensive Typo in Legislative History

Posted on October 10, 2014 by DigitalPlato

When I was a public Internet manager, a client brought a handwritten affidavit who wanted it to be word processed. While I was doing it, I came across a sentence saying, ‘…I jumped ON the van…’ I told the client … Continue reading →

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Amazon Labels’Tom and Jerry’ Racist

Posted on October 2, 2014 by DigitalPlato

Tom And Jerry cartoons depict ‘ethnic and racial prejudice’, warns Amazon ‘Without mentioning specific examples, the Amazon blurb reads: ‘Tom And Jerry shorts may depict some ethnic and racial prejudices that were once commonplace in American society. Such depictions were … Continue reading →

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Robot Writers Are on the Rise, but Do They Work?

Posted on September 25, 2014 by DigitalPlato

‘If you’ve spent any time reading on the web the past week, odds are you’ve read something written by a robot—and you didn’t even realize it. ‘Robot writers are algorithms that collect and analyze data and then turn them into … Continue reading →

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Crush Your Writer’s Anxiety

Posted on September 21, 2014 by DigitalPlato

‘Writing is a stressful job, if not the most stressful, due to the roller coaster income, length of time it takes to actually write and edit, and most frustrating, the expectancy to handle a wide array of skills we are … Continue reading →

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