The Daily Square – Xanadu Edition

Today’s links of interest:

• Nominees for the Debut Author of the Year category – The Quills
  The voting has begun. Select your favorites and watch the highly rated television broadcast. Hey — at least they’re sticking with the awards!
• Meet Your GalleyCat Hotties of Publishing!
  Liz Scheir and Steve Barbara win the tough competition.
• AOL Moves to Increase Privacy on Search Queries
  New motto: your searches are safe with us.
• Poet’s papers bring stately sum
  The papers of Samuel Taylor Coleridge are released into the wild. Well, the British version of the wild.
• TriCom Podcasts Put Authors In Your Pocket
  Where you’ll be happy to see them.
• Judging a reader by his book
  Sort of a corollary of you are what you read.
• Surefire Signs of a Virtual Violation
  Protect yourself from the unscrupulous — it’s worth your effort to read and learn.
• Boilerplate–didn’t Dante have a book about that?
  In which the High Queen of Snarkness tells someone "you never know until you ask".
• In a Twist, a Travel Web Site Plans to Spin Off a Magazine
  Because starting a website is so old school.
• How to read
  Nick Hornby says reading is fun(damental). Enjoy what you read — nobody ever put "I should have read more boring books" on their tombstone. Except that one guy…
• On the Vast — and Democratic — Digital Shelf, Will Hits Lose Their Privileged Place?
  Long Tail redux, not sure the point being made by Chris Anderson is translating to the writer.
• Eyeing a little more green
  Animation writers of the world, rise and demand your due! Seriously, get what you’re owed.