If you are a blogger like me, when you first entered this virtual word of observation and musings, there were skeptics.

Those who scoffed at what you wrote as not being real literature or true journalism. I was pleased to find makeuseof.com’s recent article, “Top 5 Online Resources for the Citizen Journalist” as not only a great resource but a very thorough listing of tools for the writer in all of us.  At the top of the list and justly so, is a product of that early concern for journalistic integrity – Journalism.org. This site is a tremendous source of not just research but guidance. Another gem in this list is RefDesk – a source for facts, figures and statistics. If you need to quote how many adults and children are living with cerebral palsy symptoms in the United States, the Facts Search Desk feature will tell you the United Cerebral Palsy Association estimates that figure to be 800,000.

Melody K. Smith, March 19, 2010

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