The 2009 AP Stylebook app features searchable listings for the main, sports, business and punctuation sections, along with the ability to add custom entries and personalized notes on AP listings. Stylebook app users are able to mark any entry as a favorite for easy access.

Thanks: Cyanide & Happiness @ Explosm.net

The files don’t have to be uploaded to Google Docs, but they need to be available online

“Editing should be, especially in the case of old writers, a counseling rather than a collaborating task. The tendency of the writer-editor to collaborate is natural, but he should say to himself, ‘How can I help this writer to say it better in his own style?’ and avoid ‘How can I show him how I would write it, if it were my piece?’”

Thanks: Kottke

Mythbusters goes Bond by ~KronicX on deviantART

“According to a recent NCMEC study in patterns and trends in online child victimization, the past few years have seen a 6% increase in reports of kids providing images and videos of themselves when asked by online acquaintances; sending naked photos of themselves through text messages (“sexting”); and cyber-bullying. This new trend underscores the need to educate our younger users, their families and teachers on ways to create and enjoy safe online experiences.

We’re doing our part by working with child safety organizations and law enforcement around the globe to spread positive messages about life online. For example, in mid-September, we’re launching a global training program on YouTube to help teens teach other teens about these issues. This is just one step among many that we’re taking to help create a generation of responsible digital citizens.”

So says a post on the official Google blog today.  Can’t wait to see what Goog has planned for its geeklings.

“About 85 percent of the 250 juveniles who come under her jurisdiction each year post on social networking sites, typically MySpace, Lanan says. When she is online at work and at home she follows their posts. And when a child appears in her court, she and her court reporter make sure they have a copy of what has most recently appeared on the child’s page. Some of the most disturbing posts she has encountered included an alleged offender bragging about “jumping a kid” — beating him up — as part of a gang initiation.”

Arthur Bright, a second-year law student at the Boston University School of Law, today suggested her friending requirements would become “somewhat Big Brotherly, were her approach to be more widely adopted.”

I don’t know.  I have to wonder whether it’s a smart move.  One, we’ve all been known to complain about the gap between the Internet and the law – and this just may be the beginning of that bridge.  And two, given the recent Skanks in NY debacle, maybe it’s time we started considering the Internet as just another dimension to our social lives; a place where there is room for both anonymity and privacy walls, as well as a place where we are responsible for our actions.