Posted in Communication, Writing on February 25th, 2006 No Comments »
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 readers are aware of their meaning.
This week I while trawling blogs I saw AI being […]
Posted in Copywriting, Marketing, Writing on February 21st, 2006 1 Comment »
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 a waste of everyone’s time - yours and your customers.
So what is good about Seth’s suggested […]
Posted in General, Writing on February 20th, 2006 No Comments »
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 about how to write a poem. So why pick this up? The answer is simple […]
Posted in Uncategorized on February 19th, 2006 No Comments »
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 of your time. Sorry!
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Posted in Movies, Screenwriting on February 19th, 2006 No Comments »
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 lion’s head, a goat’s body, and a serpent’s tail. In other words, it’s a hodge podge. So […]
Posted in Blogs on February 18th, 2006 No Comments »
I finally got around to getting on my other computer and uploading the patched files that, hopefully, will fix my problem with trackbacks.
We will see!
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Posted in Blogs, General on February 13th, 2006 1 Comment »
Every now and again I take a look at my stats with a particular interest in the search terms. I’m curious about how people found my various blogs using search engines. What were they looking for that led them to me? The answer is always alarming.
I’m less interested in “how many†than I am in […]
Posted in Blogs, Writing on February 12th, 2006 No Comments »
You know, for a blog supposedly focused on writing I don’t seem to do an awful lot of it here, at least not lately.
Today I was going to ramble knowingly about the impact technology (computers primarily) have had on how we write. It would have been very informed and wise – after all, I’ve been […]
Posted in Blogs, Marketing, Web Writing, Writing on February 7th, 2006 2 Comments »
I was reading an item about social networks and saw something in it related to writing that I take issue with.
It was a Business Week item from December 12, “The MySpace Generation” and it went: “But young consumers may follow brands offline — if companies can figure out how to talk to youths in their […]
Posted in Books, Business, Marketing on February 1st, 2006 1 Comment »
I just wanted to direct attention over to Seth Godin’s free download, Flipping the Funnel. It’s a new e-book, PDF format. He says:
This new ebook (3 versions, 18 pages each, PDF format) explains how I believe some of the new Web 2.0 tools (flickr, del.icio.us, squidoo and others) combine with ideaviruses and the Purple Cow.
I […]
