Resource link - styleguide check, weather in your inbox

A new site by Mary Beth Protomastro, www.onlinestylebooks.com, searches style guides across the Web.

Interesting idea and somewhat useful, but basically seems to be a Google search tailored to various style locations. It still won't get you into AP or Chicago, both of which are subscription. It does get you to the AP ask-the-editor section, but as you quickly find out that is of limited use because if you don't have an AP subscription, you can see only the most recent entries - even though the one you want has disappeared into the paywall.

(Here's a search I did on "workforce," one of those AP directives for two words when much of the world has gone to one.)

Still, if you want to get a sense of what's going on in that big, scary style world out there, it's good to have in the bookmarks.

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I've mentioned here before the usefulness of Emergencyemail.org to get weather and other alerts in your inbox. Now, the free service mails you once a day with links to your daily weather as well as tropical storm updates, Gulf oil updates, etc.