Yes, another complaint … I’m looking at a schedule for the Edmonton Oilers to see what games are televised and what channels they are on. And I’m seeing acronyms left and right.
Fine. I understand why they are using acronyms. Full names, like Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, take up too much space. Much cleaner to simply have […]
The easiest thing in the world to be is a critic. Being a good critic? Now that’s hard.
As the Web has shown, especially blogs, most of us are critics. We’ve got a lot of beefs and the Web allows us to air them, though not always to a huge audience. (It is potentially huge – […]
I can post this because I’m in a coffee shop in downtown Fredericton making use of the free wireless connection, Fred-eZone. (Except today I took a cab downtown instead of walking. See yesterday’s muddled post.)
I haven’t figured out what the problem is with the connection I had a few days ago from the motel. There […]
I learned this years ago when I was working in radio and writing pointless, waste of time ads. What to write - it’s a post on Seth Godin’s blog.
Although the post relates to ads, and my radio experience was with ads, it’s applicable to all forms of writing. For the love of Mike, don’t write […]
Articulating a very real problem with blogging as it is today, Seth posts The noisy tragedy of the blog commons, a little something about too much of a good thing.
He is definitely describing me when he talks about the surfeit of RSS feeds. I largely ignore everything now. I rarely open Bloglines anymore, I just […]
It always amazes me just how little actual writing I do in my career as a writer. This week was a good example.
I spent good deal of time editing, a lot of time on the phone and oodles of time managing e-mail. But the thing that most struck me was how much time I spent […]
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 […]
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 Web Writing on October 3rd, 2004 No Comments »
In my 12 rules for Web writing, one of my favourites is this one:
5. Know a little but not a lot. Know enough to write about it but be sufficiently ignorant to ask the right questions.
I came to this conclusion while doing marketing and technical writing. In some cases it was support material and in […]
Posted in Web Writing on September 26th, 2004 No Comments »
The other day I came across something I wrote three years ago - rules for writing for the Web. I think I made this list to help get my thoughts straight. The rules are pretty pretentious. (I think I was trying to sound like some great voice of authority - ha!) But I’m putting them […]
