Around the Word

• Journalism professor Don Ranly offers up another constructive lesson in comma placement, enlightening us on the necessity of commas in non-essential phrases

• Creative career coach Mark McGuinness provides some lyrical tips for developing a content masterpiece. Chief among them? Make like Bach and produce -- research shows that major composers don't pen a higher proportion of masterpieces, they simply create more

• Galleycat offers a thoughtful post-mortem on yesterday's Amazon crash that had the publishing world in a tizzy. Maybe bookstores aren't so irrelevant after all?