Some additional reading August 14th from 11:15 to 14:20:
- Time Out Chicago: The TOC Blog Welcome to the party, Chuffpo, things should pick up soon – "Since then, Windy Citizen has launched and started filling in some of the gaps of local coverage, Urban Daddy and Thrillist have started swinging their man-about-town weight around, the boys of the Curbed network have been trying to get a foothold here, and even the Chicago Tribune has started storming the gates of every social networking site with an RSS feed, in part to get a better sense of what its online audience is thinking. This week, the Chicago branch of The Huffington Post (which I’m calling ChuffPo until someone comes up with a better nickname) and The Onion’s Decider site launched. Like its parent site, ChuffPo is a collection of notable links and stories on other sites, and blog posts from some familiar Chicago voices."
- Semicolons have an interesting history. – "The Italian printer Aldus Manutius the elder was the first to use the semicolon to separate words opposed in meaning and to mark off interdependent statements:
In 1560, it was introduced into English. A London printer, Henry Denham, used semicolons regularly; we can see them in the publication of “A Golden Chaine” by Thomas Rogers:"
click the link for visual examples and more history