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Thursday links

Happy Thursday, kiddos! I've been hoarding up a few links to share with you guys ... Do you spend as much time thinking about text-message punctuation as I do? Jessica Bennet at the New York Times does too! This is a fascinating article about the way that punctuation is used differently in messages. Going back to our discussion of quotas from last week, here's an old but good article about self-imposed quotas from Overland (with…

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The Stella Count 2014

The Stella Count for 2014 is in! This wonderful little study, conducted by the same people behind the Stella Prize, looks at gender (im)balance in book reviews across Australia. You can see the full results here. What's the take-home message? Most of the regionals seem to be getting things right. There are fairly equal numbers of male and female reviewers, ditto for the gender of authors reviewed. The nationals – the Australian, the Financial Review…

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