But I’ll be honest with you. I’ve been too busy blogging and promoting my blogging every day in the month of May and trying to meet deadlines for paid writing projects it hasn’t left much time to read any kind of writing, let alone the great stuff (I will get to those back issues of The New Yorker eventually).

With so much blogging on my mind, I’ve been favoriting a lot of blogging and web-related stories on Twitter, which is what I’m sharing this week.

Tools

• How social media is transforming modern reporting –  Twitter as copy editor.
• Yahoo to publish a webwriting stylebook – Just in time for all those Associated Content writers it’s bringing into the fold.
• Barnes & Noble to launch self publishing service – Now you don’t need an agent or a publisher to write a book.
• Best ebook news on Twitter – From Mediabistro’s ebookNewser (good content, bad name).
• The Google font directory – Free fonts from Google – because you don’t use enough of their stuff already.
• Three easy tips for writing meta descriptions and titles – From writer/web designer Ron Doyle, because all writers – even if you don’t work for Associated Content or Yahoo – need to understand SEO.

Hyperlocal news

• What was Yahoo thinking? Buying Associated Content opens up a whole can of worms – Leave it to TechCrunch to say it like it is. And can I say how beautifully not SEO friendly that headline is? Love it.
• New AC writer’s union seeks seat at the table when deciding our fate – Um, did anybody tell these guys they have to be employees to unionize?
• Local lesson: hanging on to community reporters – How to motivate unpaid hyperlocal content contributors, without paying them. Good luck with that.

Inside baseball

• The most ridiculous newspaper typos ever – Thanks to the online-only Huffington Post, of course.
• The bloggers guide to having fun while writing – Some Peter Gabriel on the iPod and a nice pinot noir doesn’t hurt either.
• The All Freelance Writing virtual book club – Wish I’d thought of it first.

The case for independent news sites as profit-makers – David Westphal, a senior fellow at USC’s Annenberg’s Center on Communication Leadership, writes on the Knight Digital Media Center’s resurrected Online Journalism Review, that independent, for-profit news Websites like NewWest.net, might be onto something.

Team writing blogs – With traditional print markets drying up, freelance writers are also thinking about new ways to sell their “products,” including LinkedIn member David Hawkins, who proposes creating a team writing blog that individuals could contribute to but eventually the group could market as packaged content to Websites or other clients. Watch out Reuters.

The TypePad Journalist Bailout Program – Speaking of traditional print markets drying up, with so many reporters losing their staff jobs, blogging software maker Six Apart saw an opportunity to do a little good and a lot of self promotion and started offering recently laid off reporters a free blog package normally worth $150/year.

A bailout plan for U.S. newspapers – Hey, Uncle Sam is giving money to everybody else, why not newspapers too?

PC Magazine goes online only – January will be the last dead-tree issue of Ziff Davis’ venerable computer magazine – and can we say, for a publication that writes about all things digital, what took you so long? PC Mag joins US News & World Report and the Christian Science Monitor, which have both announced plans to go online only in 2009.

College media has come a long way – I was the editor of my college newspaper and I can tell you, way back when, we were happy with the outdated typography equipment and darkroom gear we could scrap together. That’s not the case with today’s college papers, which according to Brian Mulrey in this PBS MediaShift story, are leading the charge in innovative interactive storytelling.

What’s your least favorite part of being a freelance writer? – Even if you love working for yourself, there’s bound to be one or two things about it you don’t care for or aren’t good at. For Jennifer Mattern, author of the All Freelance Writing blog, it’s bookkeeping. What’s your least favorite part of freelancing?