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• How To Save Money On Your Copyright Registrations
  Today is the first day of the US Copyright Office's new online registration system. I think. As of 8:11am this morning, July 1, there's no "portal" evident on their site, despite an announcement [...]
• Bittersweet Quotes of the Day
  - "I think it’s the duty of the comedian to find out where the line is drawn and cross it deliberately." - "Just when I discovered the meaning of life, they changed it." - "My advice: Just [...]
• Songwriters Reality Check
  I know that songwriters sometimes get overwhelmed at the thought of trying to get noticed by an adoring public - or even any public at all. Somehow, seeing rows and rows of records in a store and [...]
• Interview with Jay Scherotter of Scottsdale Insurance Company
  Jay Scherotter is the Director of Learning Resources and Organizational Effectiveness for the Scottsdale Insurance Company, a subsidiary of Nationwide Mutual Insurance Company. This property/casualty [...]
• Motivational Quote of the Day
  "We cannot be what we want to be by remaining what we are." -- Max DePree, author of Leadership is an Art (painting: Landscape with Merchants by Claude [...]
• Lord of the Rings versus the Evil Empire?
  So you sold or licensed the rights to a copyrighted work. Congratulations! Now comes the part that is hard for most creative folks - keeping track of the project and your payments. Whether you [...]
• Training Leadership Summit in San Diego
  Next month from May 4th to 7th, the Rancho Bernardo Inn in sunny San Diego will play host to Training magazine's 2008 Training Leadership Summit. This event (which builds on the success of last [...]
• Follow up on the Student Plagiarism case
  Last year - actually, almost exactly a year ago - I wrote about a lawsuit filed by several students over a school requirement that all papers be submitted to a web-based plagiarism checking site. [...]
• Motivational Quote of the Day
  "The West has always been the epicenter of possibility. One of the ways we forge against mortality is to head west. It's to do with catching the sun before it slips behind the horizon. We all keep [...]
• MGI posied to go back up--MGI, the company was founded in 1926
  Euronet Worldwide Inc. has proposed paying $1.65 billion in stock for MoneyGram International Inc., which has hit hard times because of its investments in real estate loans. Thats $20 a share [...]