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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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Monthly Archives: February 2006
Acronyms: when AI means AI and not AI
One of my favourite hobbyhorses is acronyms – they drive me crazy. I understand why they are used. I think they can be practical, even functional. But it just makes me nuts the way they are used with the assumption … Continue reading
How to write a customer e-mail
I sent the link to Seth Godin’s post Bits are free to a bunch of people I work with last week. I told them I thought it was brilliant. Of course, it’s brilliant largely through contrast. So many e-mails are … Continue reading
Warn the world; forgive me — poetry threatens
I bought a book the other day — The Ode Less Travelled by Stephen Fry. It’s a book about writing poetry. No, really. Now, I think I know enough about language and particularly English that I don’t need a book … Continue reading
Apologies – I’m experimenting
The previous post was just to get an idea for something else I have in mind – moving another site to WordPress. And I’m leaving it up for a while so I can refer to it. Unfortunately, it’s a waste … Continue reading
Bandits
2001 – directed by Barry Levinson (3 stars out 5) Some years ago, maybe around the time of Pulp Fiction, Hollywood developed a new kind of movie genre which I call the chimera. In Greek mythology, the chimera has a … Continue reading