asking questions and discovering how little I know
From the monthly archives:
It seems sometimes all I do is moan and complain about others (and I’m probably as guilty as anyone of these various sins) but I’ve spent a good part of today visiting a number of sites and now feel compelled to say … The Internet is about the world. That is the audience. That is [...]
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I don’t usually do short little posts like this, particularly when it’s a small item that I frankly stole from someone else’s blog, but this is worth repeating – over and over: The discipline of writing something down is the first step toward making it happen. — Lee Iacocca I found (and stole) this on [...]
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I came across a post Stuck in the old paradigm in so many ways (on Strange Attractor) and it led me to Globe editorial: Good until that last drop (on Joho the Blog) and in both cases I was puzzled by the reference to MSM. At first I thought it was a typo and they [...]
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There are several stops I like to make whenever I’m online (or when Bloglines reminds me of new posts). Actually, there are more than several but why be picky? Three come to mind immediately Seth Godin’s blog, James Lilek’s The Bleat and Ripples (David St. Lawrence). Much as I like them, all three leave me [...]
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I laughed and I laughed when I saw Autoblogger (autoblogger.net). Thanks to Seth Godin’s blog for providing the link. I love to blog but sometimes you just have to giggle a bit over it, and the entire Internet for that matter. Still, it’s exactly the kind of tool someone like me needs. I haven’t posted [...]
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I came across the blog Crime Fiction Dossier and found a posted titled Grabbing readers right from the start and felt compelled to post two of my favourite openings to novels. By the way, the idea of an opening that grabs a reader is applicable to all fiction. Anyway, here are two of my favourites: [...]
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Although brevity is important in any writing, and particularly when doing Web writing, sometimes you can overdo it. Or, to be accurate, underdo it. You can shoot yourself in the foot with marketing related copy, product information and support-related technical information if you’re too brief. I’ve noticed this a lot in the last few weeks [...]
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I'm Bill Wren, a writer-editor, social media enthusiast in Fredericton, New Brunswick. And that would be my dog, Molly Bloom, as a logo in the header.
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