Posted in Communication, Web Writing on May 31st, 2005 No Comments »
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 who […]
Posted in Communication, Writing on May 29th, 2005 No Comments »
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 […]
Posted in Books, Communication, Language on April 3rd, 2005 No Comments »
Because I have something of an obsession with wind and weather, I recently read Scott Huler’s Defining the Wind : The Beaufort Scale, and How a 19th-Century Admiral Turned Science into Poetry. It turns out to be an interesting, if somewhat eccentric, study of making something useable.
If nothing else, the book illustrates how the idea […]
Posted in Communication, Language, Writing on April 2nd, 2005 No Comments »
When you do a lot of writing sometimes you get sloppy. Sometimes when you’re very busy, things slip through that shouldn’t. And sometimes … well, sometimes you’re just dumb.
Seth Godin’s post Does language matter more? touches on how we can look pretty silly when we use the wrong words. And the post just below it, […]
Posted in Communication, Writing on October 11th, 2004 No Comments »
A blurb for a recent manifesto from ChangeThis caught my attention. It was the George Lakoff Manifesto and it has to do with framing. I was excited to see someone discussing it as I think it’s critical to understanding how we discuss subjects today. Unfortunately, it turned out to be simply a lot of political […]
Posted in Blogs, Communication on August 1st, 2004 No Comments »
Years ago I read a book about the psychology of the Internet. One of it’s main points was that online, where there is a degree of anonymity (meaning it’s not a face-to-face personal encounter), we’re much more willing to say things we otherwise would not.
There were good things and bad things about this. One […]
Posted in Communication, Writing on June 22nd, 2004 No Comments »
I read Ron’s post on language and hip-hop and chat rooms (Mrs. Van doesn’t live here anymore) and had to throw in my two cents. Because I agree, though I’d like to add a few thoughts.
First of all, why would this be an issue? I think we need to say why it’s important to have […]
